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Denial and Alarmism in Collective Action Problems
Förster, Manuel; van der Weele, Joël J. - 2018
We analyze communication about the social returns to investment in a public good. We model two agents who have private information about these returns as well as their own taste for cooperation, or social preferences. Before deciding to contribute or not, each agent submits an unverifiable...
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The Price of a Price: On the Crowding out of Social Norms
Janssen, Maarten C.W.; Mendys, Ewa - 2001
There is increasing empirical and experimental evidence thatproviding financial incentives to agents to performcertain socially desirable actions may permanently reduce other typesof motivations to undertake these actions.We study the impact of financial incentives on the desire for...
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The Importance of Emotions for the Effectiveness of Social Punishment
Hopfensitz, Astrid; Reuben, Ernesto - 2005
This paper experimentally explores how the enforcement of cooperative behavior in a social dilemma is facilitated through institutional as well as emotional mechanisms. Recent studies emphasize the importance of negatively valued emotions, such as anger, which motivate individuals to punish free...
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Everybody's doing it: On the Emergence and Persistence of Bad Social Norms
Smerdon, David; Offerman, Theo; Gneezy, Uri - 2016
Social norms permeate society across a wide range of issues and are important to understanding how societies function. In this paper we concentrate on 'bad' social norms - those that are inefficient or even damaging to a group. This paper explains how bad social norms evolve and persist; our...
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Naϊve Learning in Social Networks with Fake News: Bots as a Singularity
Badri, Saeed; Heidergott, Bernd; Lindner, Ines - 2022
We study the impact of bots on social learning in a social network setting. Regular agents receive independent noisy signals about the true value of a variable and then communicate in a network. They na¨?vely update beliefs by repeatedly taking weighted averages of neighbors' opinions. Bots are...
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Trade, Trust and Transaction Cost
den Butter, Frank A.G.; Mosch, Robert H.J. - 2003
suggest. Trust between trading partners lowers transaction costs and may therefore enhance trade. The empirical analysis of … this paper shows that more trust leads to more trade so that part of the mystery of missing trade can be attributed to the … lack of trust between trading partners, e.g. because of cultural differences and habits, or because of insufficient …
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Trust and Economic Growth
Beugelsdijk, Sjoerd; de Groot, Henri L.F.; van Schaik, … - 2002
paper, Knack and Keefer (1997) assess the effect of trust on growth. This paper analyses the robustness of their results … the relationship between trust and growth in terms of both the size and the significance of the estimated effect, is … highly dependent on the set of conditioning variables. An answer to the question whether there is an economic payoff of trust …
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The Economics of Co-ethnic Employment; Incentives, Welfare Effects and Policy Options
den Butter, Frank A.G.; Masurel, Enno; Mosch, Robert - 2004
for employees to work in co-ethnic firms. It argues that strong social networks and related high intra-group trust …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325357
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Diffusion of Behavior in Network Games Orchestrated by Social Learning
Huang, Jia-Ping; Koster, Maurice; Lindner, Ines - 2013
The novelty of our model is to combine models of collective action on networks with models of social learning. Agents are connected according to an undirected graph, the social network, and have the choice between two actions: either to adopt a new behavior or technology or stay with the default...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328348
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Diffusion of Behavior in Network Games Orchestrated by Social Learning
Huang, Jia-Ping - 2014
The novelty of our model is to combine models of collective action on networks with models of social learning. Agents are connected according to an undirected graph, the social network, and have the choice between two actions: either to adopt a new behavior or technology or stay with the default...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013061677