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The triadic design to identify trust and reciprocity: Extensions and robustness

Giovanni, Di Bartolomeo; Stefano, Papa - Department of Communication, University of Teramo - 2012

Our paper reconsiders the triadic design proposed by Cox (2004) to identify trust and reciprocity in investment games … coherence of them with the triadic outcomes. We expect that if trust is reported by the triadic design, investors’ expected … Cox) and strategy method. By the latter we are able to control reciprocity for initial inequality, which is endogenous …

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Social capital and crises with an application to Iceland

Thorvaldur Gylfason - 2015

Economic growth is propelled in part by the accumulation of different kinds of capital, including social capital in its several guises. This paper considers the interplay between financial crises and various aspects of social capital which, if it is allowed to depreciate, can undermine economic...

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Measuring ethnic stratification and its effect on trust in Africa

Hodler, Roland; Srisuma, Sorawoot; Vesperoni, Alberto; … - 2018

-behaved statistical properties, and we show that ethnic stratification is empirically related to low levels of trust in other people and …

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Does competition justify inequality?

Bartling, Björn; Grieder, Manuel; Zehnder, Christian - 2015

Are competitive mechanisms perceived as just sources of economic inequality? Perceptions of fairness violations can have severe economic consequences, as they may cause counterproductive behavior such as rulebook slowdowns or quality shading. To analyze fairness perceptions associated with...

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Individual notions of distributive justice and relative economic status

Barr, Abigail; Burns, Justine; Miller, Luis; Shaw, Ingrid - 2011

We present two experiments designed to investigate whether individuals' notions of distributive justice are associated with their relative (within-society) economic status. Each participant played a specially designed four-person dictator game under one of two treatments, under one initial...

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Unfair pay and health

Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; Menrath, Ingo; Verde, Pablo E. - 2016

This paper investigates physiological responses to perceptions of unfair pay. We use an integrated approach exploiting complementarities between controlled lab and representative panel data. In a simple principal-agent experiment agents produce revenue by working on a tedious task. Principals...

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Cardiovascular Consequences of Unfair Pay

Falk, Armin; Menrath, Ingo; Verde, Pablo Emilio; … - 2011

This paper investigates physiological responses to perceptions of unfair pay. In a simple principal agent experiment agents produce revenue by working on a tedious task. Principals decide how this revenue is allocated between themselves and their agents. In this environment unfairness can arise...

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The values of ex-ante and ex-post communication in dictator games

Langenbach, Pascal - 2016

In the dictator game, the recipient's opportunity to send a message to the dictator increases giving. This paperreports two experimentswhich study how the timing of messages affects dictators' decisions (experiment 1) and which value recipients attach to communication opportunities (experiment...

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Risk aversion and other factors determine income redistribution preferences

Gärtner, Manja; Mollerstrom, Johanna - In: DIW Weekly Report 8 (2018) 17/18, pp. 151-156

The amount of redistribution people favor depends on socioeconomic factors and their views on fairness. This study, based on a representative survey conducted in Sweden, confirms earlier results: Higher incomes are correlated with wanting less redistribution, women are more in favor of...

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Suspicious Success - Cheating, Inequality Acceptance, and Political Preferences

Klimm, Felix - 2018

Supporters of left-wing parties typically place more emphasis on redistributive policies than right-wing voters. I investigate whether this difference in tolerating inequality is amplified by suspicious success - achievements that may arise from cheating. Using a laboratory experiment, I...

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