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We study experimentally the effect of expectations on trustworthiness. Most subjects respond with untrustworthy behavior if they find out that little is expected from them. This suggests that guilt aversion plays an important role in inducing trustworthiness.
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suggested a model proposing that interpersonal commitment mediates the effect of trust and reciprocity on interorganizational … demonstrated that the relationship between trust and interorganizational commitment is in fact mediated by interpersonal commitment …. We confirmed that reciprocity is directly related to interorganizational commitment, and is not mediated by interpersonal …
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buyers). We describe two kinds of models of trust for such networked environments, absolute and relativized models, and use …
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to synthesize 10 essays on relationships between five constructs – reciprocity, trust, cooperation, interorganizational …, interpersonal commitments, reciprocity and trust. The ultimate outcome of this process is stability and maturity, which means … influence the content of their relationships. Another practical implication is that trust and reciprocity should be viewed …
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Principals can attempt to get agents to perform certain actions preferable to the principal by using ex post punishments or rewards to align incentives. Field data is mixed on whether, and to what extent, such informal incentive contracting (paradoxically) crowds out efficient solutions to the...
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-person trust game. Without knowing it, players are typed based on their recent track record as to whether or not they are trusting …
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explores the influence of knowledge of partner's gender in trust and reciprocity by means of two treatments of information: the … great heterogeneity of individuals’ behaviors is observed: from selfish behavior to complete trust and trustworthiness …. Knowledge of responder’s gender does not imply different sending, even if men trust more their partners than women. However, a …
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People across the developing world join rotational savings and credit associations (roscas) to fund repeated purchases … from these groups. I model a rosca as a commitment savings device for hyperbolic discounters. Roscas are attractive for two … survival of random and fixed roscas. Random roscas are more resilient and beneficial than fixed roscas when information is …
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weakening expectations of reciprocity on the part of participants. Mortality thus implies a community-wide externality, as even …
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We analyze how the possibility of resale affects efficiency in multi-object uniform-price auctions with asymmetric bidders using a combination of theory and experiments. The resale market is modeled as an unstructured bargaining game between auction bidders. Our experimental design consists of...
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