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Trust and in-group favoritism in a culture of crime

Meier, Stephan; Pierce, Lamar; Vaccaro, Antonino - 2014

demonstrate that the historical informal institution of organized crime can undermine current institutions, even in religiously … punishment norms failing to resolve these deficits. Our study suggests that a culture of organized crime can affect adolescent … norms and attitudes that might support a vicious cycle of in-group favoritism and crime that in turn hinders economic …

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Why did he do that? : using counterfactuals to study the effect of intentions in extensive form games

Engler, Yola; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Page, Lionel - 2016

We investigate the role of intentions in two-player two-stage games. For this purpose we systematically vary the set of opportunity sets the first mover can chose from and study how the second mover reacts not only to opportunities of gains but also of losses created by the choice of the first...

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Corruption, norm violation and decay in social capital

Banerjee, Ritwik - 2016

The paper studies the link between corruption and social capital (measured as trust), using data from a lab experiment. Subjects play either a harassment bribery game or a strategically identical but differently framed ultimatum game, followed by a trust game. In a second experiment, we elicit...

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Teams promise but do not deliver

Nielsen, Kirby; Bhattacharya, Puja; Kagel, John H.; … - 2019

Individuals and two-person teams play a hidden - action trust game with pre - play communication. We replicate previous results for individuals that non-binding promises increase cooperation rates. But this does not extend to teams. Wh ile teams make non-binding promises to cooperate at the same...

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The trust broker game : a three-player trust game with probabilistic returns and information asymmetry

Tagat, Anirudh; Kapoor, Hansika - 2017

This paper experimentally investigates trust and trustworthiness in a repeated and sequential three-player trust game with probabilistic returns and information asymmetry. It adds to the existing literature by combining experimental features from recent work in the trust game. The authors use...

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Public goods provision with rent-extracting administrators

Cagala, Tobias; Glogowsky, Ulrich; Grimm, Veronika; … - 2017

This paper studies public goods provision in an experiment in which contributors repeatedly interact with rent-extracting administrators. Our main result is that the presence of an administrator reduces contributions but only because rent extraction lowers the MPCR. Analysing the dynamic...

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Trust and communication in a property rights dilemma

Ahn, T. K.; Balafoutas, Loukas; Batsaikhan, Mongoljin; … - 2016

We study a laboratory social dilemma game in which incentives to steal from others lead to the socially inefficient diversion of resources from production unless the members of a given mini-society can abide by norms of non-theft or engage in low cost collective protection of their members'...

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Evaluating trust and trustworthiness in social groups and networks

O'Higgins, Shane Niall; Mazzoni, Clelia; Sbriglia, Patrizia - 2018

Trust and trustworthiness are important components of social capital and much attention has been devoted to their correct evaluation. In this paper, we argue that individuals' trust and trustworthiness are strongly dependent on the level of trust and trustworthiness of the social group in which...

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Cooperation and trustworthiness in repeated interaction : conference paper

Cagala, Tobias; Glogowsky, Ulrich; Grimm, Veronika; … - 2015 - [Revised version: February 2015]

Public goods provision often involves groups of contributors repeatedly interacting with administrators who can extract rents from the pool of contributions. We suggest a novel identification approach that exploits the sequential ordering of decisions in a panel vector autoregressive model to...

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Signal qualities, order of decisions, and informational cascades : experimental evidences

Sasaki, Shunichiro (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

This paper reports the results of informational cascades experiments where two different decision-making systems, anti-seniority and seniority are investigated. By implementing heterogeneous signal qualities associated with the fixed order of decisions I compare the property of each system and...

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