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What is Trustworthiness and What Drives It?
Cox, James C.; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Neururer, Daniel - Department of Economics, Andrew Young School of Policy … - 2014
definitions of trust and trustworthiness based on revealed willingness to accept vulnerability and the response to it. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010905947
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The investment game with asymmetric information
Coricelli, G.; Morales, L.G.; Mahlstedt, A. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
We analyze the effects of introducing asymmetric information and expectations in the investment game (Berg et al., 1995). In our experiment, only the trustee knows the size of the surplus. Subjects’ expectations about each other’s behavior are also elicited. Our results show that average...
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What is trustworthiness and what drives it?
Cox, James C.; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Neururer, Daniel - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2014
definitions of trust and trustworthiness based on revealed willingness to accept vulnerability and the response to it. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010895184
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Social preferences in childhood and adolescence - A large-scale experiment
Sutter, Matthias; Feri, Francesco; Kocher, Martin G.; … - School of Economics, University of East Anglia - 2010
Social preferences have been shown to be an important determinant of economic decision making for many adults. We present a largescale experiment with 883 children and adolescents, aged eight to seventeen years. Participants make decisions in eight simple, oneshot allocation tasks, allowing us...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010571478
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Social preferences in childhood and adolescence - A large-scale experiment
Sutter, Matthias; Feri, Francesco; Kocher, Martin G.; … - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2010
Social preferences have been shown to be an important determinant of economic decision making for many adults. We present a large-scale experiment with 883 children and adolescents, aged eight to seventeen years. Participants make decisions in eight simple, one-shot allocation tasks, allowing us...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008568487
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Identification of Altruism among Team Members: Empirical Evidence from the Classroom and Laboratory
Griffiths, Barry - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
It is difficult to identify acts that are purely altruistic, and do not have some level of egoism or self-interest involved. By considering situations where team members seemingly have nothing to gain by the way they distribute points to others with regard to peer evaluation, and where their...
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Social preferences in childhood and adolescence ? A large-scale experiment
Sutter, Matthias; Feri, Francesco; Kocher, Martin G.; … - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2010
Social preferences have been shown to be an important determinant of economic decision making for many adults. We present a large-scale experiment with 883 children and adolescents, aged eight to seventeen years. Participants make decisions in eight simple, one-shot allocation tasks, allowing us...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008462709
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Verified Trust: Reciprocity, Altruism and Noise in Trust Games
Brülhart, Marius; Usunier, Jean-Claude - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
Behavioural economists have come to recognize that reciprocity, the interaction of trust and trustworthiness, is a … principally due to observed decisions in experimental ‘trust games’. However, recent research has cast doubt on the explanatory … power of trust as a determinant of those decisions, suggesting that altruism may explain much of what ‘looks like’ trust …
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The Framing of Games and the Psychology of Strategic Choice
Dufwenberg, Martin; Gaechter, Simon; Hennig-Schmidt, Heike - Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics … - 2006
Psychological game theory can provide a rational choice explanation of framing effects; frames influence beliefs, and beliefs influence motivations. We explain this point theoretically, and explore its empirical relevance experimentally. In a 2×2-factorial framing design of one-shot public good...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005200585
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The Framing of Games and the Psychology of Play
Dufwenberg, Martin; Gaechter, Simon; Hennig-Schmidt, Heike - Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics … - 2010
Psychological game theory can provide rational-choice-based framing effects; frames influence beliefs, beliefs influence motivations. We explain this theoretically and explore empirical relevance experimentally. In a 2?2 design of one-shot public good games we show that frames affect subject’s...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010545652