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religious seminaries. -- trust ; group identity ; religious seminaries ; unconditional other-regarding behavior ; expectations … find a high level of trust among all groups, with students enrolled at Madrassas being the most trusting and exhibiting the … or systematic out-group bias either in trust or tastes. These findings cast doubt on the general perception that …
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level of trust among all groups. Third, within each institution group, we fail to find evidence of in-group bias or … systematic out-group bias either in trust or tastes. Fourth, we find that students from certain backgrounds under-estimate the …
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Truthful reporting about the realization of a publicly observed event cannot be guaranteed by a consensus process. This fact, which we establish theoretically and verify empirically, holds true even if some individuals are compelled to tell the truth, regardless of economic incentives. We...
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Truthful reporting about the realization of a publicly observed event cannot be guaranteed by a consensus process. This fact, which we establish theoretically and verify empirically, holds true even if some individuals are compelled to tell the truth, regardless of economic incentives. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014540144
The existing literature acknowledges that a mismatch between the experimenter'sand the subjects' models of an experimental task can adversely aect the interpretation ofdata from laboratory experiments. We discuss why the two common experimental designs(between-subjects and within-subjects) used...
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Whether incentive contracts perform better than trust in terms of productiveefficiency is usually explored by principal …, we find that (mutual) trust is as good as incentivecontracts in inducing costly actions by employees. Moreover, we …
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Truthful reporting about the realization of a publicly observed event cannot be guaranteed by a consensus process. This fact, which we establish theoretically and verify empirically, holds true even if some individuals are compelled to tell the truth, regardless of economic incentives. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532468
Truthful reporting about the realization of a publicly observed event cannot be guaranteed by a consensus process. This fact, which we establish theoretically and verify empirically, holds true even if some individuals are compelled to tell the truth, regardless of economic incentives. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014531272
This paper reports an experiment evaluating the effect of gift giving on building trust in a relationship. We have … giving leads to higher trust and efficiency but at the same time is probably not stable. …
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Under what conditions can cooperation be sustained in a network of strangers? Here we study the role of institutions and uncover a new behavioral foundation for the use of monetary systems. In an experiment, anonymous subjects could cooperate or defect in bilateral random encounters. This...
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