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Vendettas
Bolle, Friedel; Tan, Jonathan H.W.; Zizzo, Daniel John - Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics … - 2010
Vendettas occur in many real world settings where rivals compete for a prize, e.g., winning an election or a competitive promotion, by engaging in retaliatory aggressive behavior. We present a benchmark experiment where two players have an initial probability of winning a prize. Retaliatory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008592422
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Vendettas
Bolle, Friedel; Tan, Jonathan H.W.; Zizzo, Daniel John - Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics … - 2010
Vendettas occur in many real world settings where rivals compete for a prize, e.g., winning an election or a competitive promotion, by engaging in retaliatory aggressive behavior. We present a benchmark experiment where two players have an initial probability of winning a prize. Retaliatory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010781899
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Social Capital, Institutions and Trust
Nooteboom, B. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2006
This paper analyzes the relations between social capital, institutions and trust.These concepts are full of ambiguity … and confusion.This paper attempts to dissolve some of the confusion, by distinguishing trust and control, and analyzing … institutional and relational conditions of trust.It presents a tool for the analysis of the foundations of trust and a diagnosis of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011092754
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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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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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Trust in cooperation or ability? – An experimental study on gender differences
Schwieren, Christiane; Sutter, Matthias - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2003
We examine experimentally two different types of trust: trust in another party’s cooperation and trust in ability. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005588002
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Vendettas
Bolle, Friedel; Tan, Jonathan H. W.; Zizzo, Daniel John - School of Economics, University of East Anglia - 2010
Vendettas occur in many real world settings where rivals compete for a prize, e.g., winning an election or a competitive promotion, by engaging in retaliatory aggressive behavior. We present a benchmark experiment where two players have an initial probability of winning a prize. Retaliatory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010571509
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Is Trust a Bad Investment?
Ashraf, Nava; Bohnet, Iris; Piankov, Nikita - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2004
This paper examines whether trust is an investment decision under uncertainty, based on the expectation of … trustworthiness, and whether trustworthiness is reciprocity, conditional on one?s counterpart?s behavior. In trust experiments in … Russia, South Africa and the United States, two thirds of the subjects who trust do not expect trust to pay monetarily. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005673537
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Wallflowers Doing Good: Field and Lab Evidence of Heterogeneity in Reputation Concerns
Jones, Daniel; Linardi, Sera - Department of Economics, University of Pittsburgh - 2012
An extensive literature on reputation signaling has focused on the desire for positive reputation. In our paper we provide field and lab evidence that some individuals are averse to any form of reputation; this aversion correlates with gender in a prosocial setting. We formalize our hypotheses...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010908263