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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011664904
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If the worst comes to the worst: Dictator giving when recipient´s endowments are risky
Engel, Christoph; Goerg, Sebastian J. - 2015
Donors may often not be sure whether a recipient really deserves their help. Does this uncertainty deter generosity? In an experiment we find that, to the contrary, under most specifications of uncertainty, dictators give more, compared with the donation the same dictator makes to a recipient...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011419377
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If the worst comes to the worst : dictator giving when recipientś endowments are risky
Engel, Christoph; Goerg, Sebastian J. - 2015
Donors may often not be sure whether a recipient really deserves their help. Does this uncertainty deter generosity? In an experiment we find that, to the contrary, under most specifications of uncertainty, dictators give more, compared with the donation the same dictator makes to a recipient...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011349370
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The perception of distributive fairness and optimal taxation under uncertainty
Weinreich, Daniel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper incorporates a preference for distributive fairness (inequity aversion) into the analysis on optimal redistributive taxation under uncertainty. We can show that introducing or strengthening the taste for distributive fairness does not affect the socially optimal tax rate (social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111350
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"The whole breadth of reason": a step towards rethinking economics and rationality
Beretta, Simona; Maggioni, Mario A. - In: Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali 120 (2012) 3, pp. 241-262
The paper, which acts as an introduction to the Special Issue devoted to ‘‘The whole breadth of reason’’, addresses the topic of economic rationality and discusses its strengths and weaknesses within an interdisciplinary perspective highlighting the relational dimension of agents and...
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The good reasons for a broader reason
Scola, Angelo - In: Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali 120 (2012) 3, pp. 263-268
The persistence of the global economic crisis and the rapid geo-political transformations that are under way, in particular those involving the Middle East and North Africa, seem to confirm the intentions of the organisers of this Summer School: a rethinking of our conception of human reason, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010786935
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011665581
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Economic Growth and Crime: Does Uncertainty Matter?
Goulas, Eleftherios; Zervoyianni, Athina - Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis (RCEA) - 2012
This paper contributes to the crime literature by exploring how the crime-uncertainty interaction impacts on economic … growth. Using a panel of 25 countries over the period 1991-2007, we find evidence suggesting that increased crime has an … crime on growth implying that a 10% increase in the crime rate can reduce annual per-capita GDP-growth by between 0.49 and 0 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010555883
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Stochastic income and conditional generosity
Kellner, Christian; Reinstein, David; Riener, Gerhard - 2015
We study how other-regarding behavior extends to environments with uncertain income and conditional commitments. Should fundraisers ask a banker to donate "if he earns a bonus" or wait and ask after the bonus is known? Standard EU theory predicts these are equivalent; loss-aversion and signaling...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346238
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Intuition and Reasoning in Choosing Ambiguous and Risky Lotteries
Bergheim, Ralf; Roos, Michael W. M. - 2013
This paper focuses on information acquisition and individual decision making in ambiguous situations and presents a novel experimental design which may help to tackle open questions from a fresh perspective. Instead of giving subjects the choice between risky and ambiguous Ellsberg urns, we let...
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