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Is it Betrayal Aversion or Regret Aversion ?

Aharon, Itzhak - In: Recherches économiques de Louvain 78 (2012) 3, pp. 101-114

Social and economic exchanges often occur between strangers who cannot rely on past behavior or the prospect of future interactions to establish mutual trust. Game theorists formalize this problem in several "one-shot? game ? such as the trust game - predicting noncooperation ? since the...

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Greater than the sum of their parts? When combinations of institutions improve citizensâ€™ decisions

Boudreau, Cheryl - In: Journal of Theoretical Politics 24 (2012) 1, pp. 90-109

institution is present. The theoretical model demonstrates that a second institution typically should not alter a speakerâ … important departures from such rational behavior. Specifically, a second institution makes subjects more willing to trust the … already mostly truthful statements they receive, which enables them to make better decisions than when only one institution is …

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Cooperation and Self-Governance in Heterogeneous Communities

Escobar, Juan - Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research … - 2008

each other infrequently and, when matched, play a prisoners’ dilemma. There exists an institution that can convey …

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Methodological Interactionism : Theory and Application to the Firm and to the Building of Trust

Nooteboom, B. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2007

Recent insights from the ‘embodied cognition’ perspective in cognitive science, supported by neural research, provide a basis for a ‘methodological interactionism’ that transcends both the methodological individualism of economics and the methodological collectivism of (some) sociology,...

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Declining trust in growing China: A dilemma between growth and socio-economic damage

Dai, Shuanping; Elsner, Wolfram - Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Universität … - 2015

Declining general trust has become a serious social issue in China in recent years. This paper attempts to understand and analyze this social phenomenon from a social interaction perspective. Based on a repeated prisoners´ dilemma game on networks, it finds that the evolution of general trust...

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Beyond Extended Phenotype Evolution of extended identity in order to reconcile study of humanity with biological evolution

Mezgebo, Taddese - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

The question: “How much of biological evolution based theories, as they are understood presently, apply to human behaviour?” is highly controversial and perhaps highly politicized as well. The inference that human beings are evolutionarily programmed to have urges toward aggression, rape,...

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Trust and Arena Size. Expectations, Trust, and Institutions Co-Evolving, and Their Critical Population and Group Sizes.

Elsner, Wolfram; Schwardt, Henning - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

cooperation has been established as the prevalent behavioral pattern in a number of platforms, its habituation as an institution …

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Peut-on se fier à la confiance ?

Laurent, Éloi - In: Revue de l'OFCE n° 108 (2009) 1, pp. 5-30

This article attempts to survey a large part of the growing literature on trust, trying to circumscribe this imprecise concept and especially its relations with economic theory. After reviewing different notions of trust ? particularized, generalized, trust in institutions ? it tries to explore...

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Learning to Trust

Nooteboom, B. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2005

Trust is full of puzzle and paradox.Trust is both rational and emotional. Trust can go beyond calculative self-interest, but has its limits.People may want to trust, while they may also feel threatened by it.If trust is not in place prior to a relationship, on the basis of institutions, prior...

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Social Capital, Corruption and Economic Growth: Eastern and Western Europe

Svendsen, Gert Tinggaard - Nationalökonomisk Institut, Institut for Økonomi - 2003

We hypothesize, that power centralisation in a political system leads to more corruption due to the <p> monopoly power status of bureaucrats. Corruption again would then lead to a lower level of social capital, <p> here measured as trust, and slow down economic growth even further. Indeed, when...</p></p>

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