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Trust, Reciprocity, and Guanxi in China: An Experimental Investigation
Song, Fei; Cadsby, C. Bram; Bi, Yunyun - Department of Economics and Finance, College of … - 2012
We examine the influence of social distance on levels of trust and reciprocity in China. Social distance, reflected in the indigenous concept of guanxi, is of central importance to Chinese culture. In Study 1, some participants participated in two financially salient trust games to measure...
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Cooperation, Trust, and Economic Development: An Experimental Study in China
Shen, Junyi; Qin, Xiangdong - Research Institute for Economics and Business … - 2013
of public goods experiment, gambling game experiment, and trust game experiment, we investigate the links among …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010822745
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Group Decision Making in a Corruption Experiment: China and Germany Compared
Li, Sha; Bueren, Christoph; Frank, Bjoern; Qin, Haiying - In: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer … 235 (2015) 2, pp. 207-227
investigation of individual versus group decision making in a corruption experiment. We find that the group decisions, as compared …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011202947
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Household decision making and the influence of spouses’ income, education, and communist party membership: A field experiment in rural China
Carlsson, Fredrik; Martinsson, Peter; Qin, Ping; … - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2009
We study household decision making in a high-stakes experiment with a random sample of households in rural China …. Spouses have to choose between risky lotteries, first separately and then jointly. We find that spouses’ individual risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005771209
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Household decision making and the influence of spouses? income, education, and communist party membership: A field experiment in rural China
Carlsson, Fredrik; Martinsson, Peter; Qin, Ping; … - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2009
We study household decision making in a high-stakes experiment with a random sample of households in rural China …. Spouses have to choose between risky lotteries, first separately and then jointly. We find that spouses? individual risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005581169
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Coordinating tasks in M-form and U-form organisations
Qian, Yingyi; Roland, Gerard; Xu, Cheng-Gang - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003
We model the coordination of specialised tasks inside an organisation as "attribute matching". Using this method, we compare the performance of organisational forms (M-form and U-form) in implementing changes such as innovation and reform. In our framework, organisational forms affect the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928762
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Economic policy uncertainty and corporate investment: Evidence from China
Wang, Yizhong; Chen, Carl R.; Huang, Ying Sophie - In: Pacific-Basin Finance Journal 26 (2014) C, pp. 227-243
This paper studies how economic policy uncertainty influences corporate investment for Chinese listed companies. We … show that when the degree of economic policy uncertainty is higher, firms stand to lower their investment and vice versa … negative effect of policy uncertainty on corporate investment. Moreover, firms in regions with higher degree of marketization …
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How uncertainty reduces greenhouse gas emissions
Schenker, Oliver - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
China has becoming in 2006 the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases (GHG), responsible for one-fifth of world’s emissions from power generation. And further strong growth in this sector is to be expected. To provide these additional power generation capacities substantial investments...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008871204
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Anti-Western conspiracy thinking and expectations of collusion: Evidence from Russia and China
Libman, Alexander; Vollan, Björn - Siirtymätalouksien tutkimuslaitos, Suomen Pankki - 2015
laboratory experiment to measure expectations of collusion and several survey items related to conspiracy thinking. Our survey …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011272724
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Hometown-specific Bargaining Power in an Experimental Market in China
Qin, Xiangdong; Shen, Junyi; Shimomura, Ken-Ichi; … - Research Institute for Economics and Business … - 2013
We conducted a market experiment in China to examine potential effects of subjects' hometowns on their behaviors as …
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