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Social Distance and Trust: Experimental Evidence from a Slum in Cairo
Binzel, Christine; Fehr, Dietmar - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
implement a binary trust game with hidden action in a lab-in-the-field experiment with residents of an informal housing area in … part of the social network. We examine what makes the decision to trust a stranger different from the decision to trust a … Cairo. Our results show that trust is higher among friends than among strangers and that higher trust among friends is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005086589
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Social Relationships and Trust
Binzel, Christine; Fehr, Dietmar - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
limit individuals' range of trading partners. This paper aims at understanding the determinants of trust at various social … increase in trust following a reduction in social distance comes from the fact that trustors are much more inclined to follow … trust is mainly driven by social preferences. Nevertheless, trustors underestimate their friend's intrinsic motivation to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008498394
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Social distance and trust: Experimental evidence from a slum in Cairo
Binzel, Christine; Fehr, Dietmar - In: Journal of Development Economics 103 (2013) C, pp. 99-106
implement a binary trust game with hidden action in a lab-in-the-field experiment with residents of an informal housing area in … part of the social network. We examine what makes the decision to trust a stranger different from the decision to trust a … Cairo. Our results show that trust is higher among friends than among strangers and that higher trust among friends is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010679291
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Social Relationships and Trust
Binzel, Christine; Fehr, Dietmar - Sonderforschungsbereich 649: Ökonomisches Risiko, … - 2010
limit individuals' range of trading partners. This paper aims at understanding the determinants of trust at various social … increase in trust following a reduction in social distance comes from the fact that trustors are much more inclined to follow … trust is mainly driven by social preferences. Nevertheless, trustors underestimate their friend's intrinsic motivation to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008465251
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An examination of the effect of messages on cooperation under double-blind and single-blind payoff procedures
Deck, Cary; Servátka, Maroš; Tucker, Steven - In: Experimental Economics 16 (2013) 4, pp. 597-607
Previous research has suggested that communication and especially promises increase cooperation in laboratory experiments. This has been taken as evidence for internal motivations such as guilt aversion or preference for promise keeping. The goal of this paper was to examine messages under a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010988990
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An Examination of the Effect of Messages on Cooperation under Double-Blind and Single-Blind Payoff Procedures
Deck, Cary; Servátka, Maroš; Tucker, Steven - Department of Economics and Finance, College of … - 2012
Previous research has suggested that communication and especially promises in-crease cooperation in laboratory experiments. This has been taken as evidence for internal motivations such as guilt aversion or preference for promise keeping. The goals of this paper are to examine messages under a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010907406
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Comment on "Promises and Partnership"
Deck, Cary; Servátka, Maroš; Tucker, Steven - Department of Economics and Finance, College of … - 2011
their experiment is driven by guilt aversion. By modifying the procedures to include a double blind social distance protocol …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008914311
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Do People Keep Socially Unverifiable Promises?
Deck, Cary; Servátka, Maroš; Tucker, Steven - Department of Economics and Finance, College of … - 2011
increases the overall level of cooperation in our double blind experiment. However, our results are due in part to the high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371391
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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 … in two financially salient trust games to measure behavior, one with an anonymous classmate and the other with an … behavior were statistically consistent. The results together corroborated the hypothesized negative relationship between trust …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009493984
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Crowding out in an indefinitely repeated Asymmetric Trust Game
Dirkmaat, T.; Rosenkranz, S.; Buskens, V.W. - School of Economics, Universiteit Utrecht - 2006
In this paper we introduce an alternative version of the trust game by Dasgupta (1988) and Kreps (1990) that allows for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040938