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Trust and its determinants : evidence from the Trustlab experiment
Murtin, Fabrice; Fleischer, Lara; Siegerink, Vincent; … - 2018
This paper describes the results of an international initiative on trust (Trustlab) run in six OECD countries between November 2016 and November 2017 (France, Germany, Italy, Korea, Slovenia and the United States). Trustlab combines cutting-edge techniques drawn from behavioural science and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011911581
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Measures of interpersonal trust : evidence on their cross-national validity and reliability based on surveys and experimental data
Carlin, Ryan E.; Love, Gregory J.; Smith, Conal - 2017
Interpersonal trust (i.e. trust in other people) is an issue of high interest to both policy-makers and researchers seeking to understand what drives social and economic outcomes. However, for trust to usefully inform policy and analysis it is necessary to have valid and reliable measures of it....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011821950
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Rage against the machines
Dürsch, Peter; Kolb, Albert; Oechssler, Joerg; … - 2005
We use an experiment to explore how subjects learn to play against computers which are programmed to follow one of a … and that all learning algorithms are subject to exploitation with the notable exception of imitation. The experiment was …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003379095
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Imitation : theory and experimental evidence
Apesteguia, Jose; Huck, Steffen; Oechssler, Joerg - 2005
laboratory experiment we test the different theories by systematically varying information conditions. We find significant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003023525
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How can favourable financing improve energy efficiency investments? : evidence from new experimental data
Brutscher, Philipp-Bastian; Ravillard, Pauline - 2020
Promoting investment in energy efficiency has become increasingly important over the past decade. It is heavily … European Investment Bank, we find that a lower and fixed interest rate, a lower collateral requirement and the provision of … technical assistance in the implementation of the project can significantly boost investment in energy efficiency. When …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012164560
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Syndicated loans and CDS positioning
Aldasoro, Iñaki; Barth, Andreas - 2017
This paper analyzes banks' usage of CDS. Combining bank-firm syndicated loan data with a unique EU-wide dataset on bilateral CDS positions, we find that stronger banks in terms of capital, funding and profitability tend to hedge more. We find no evidence of banks using the CDS market for capital...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011978351
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Tax policy and entrepreneurial entry with information asymmetry and learning
D'Andria, Diego - 2017 - This version: February 2017
We study a market with entrepreneurial and workers entry where both entrepreneurs' abilities and workers' qualities are private information. We develop an Agent-Based Computable model to mimic the mechanisms described in a previous analytical model (Boadway and Sato 2011). Then, we introduce the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011982041
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Governance statistics in OECD countries and beyond : what exists, and what would be required to assess their quality?
González, Santiago; Fleischer, Lara; Mira D'Ercole, Marco - 2017
The paper provides a first assessment of the range of governance statistics that are available in OECD countries, reaching three main conclusions. First, while several statistics relating to various aspects of governance are already available, they differ in terms of the underlying concepts, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011657813
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Living, working and COVID-19
European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and … - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012219048
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Challenges and prospects in the EU : quality of life and public services
Anderson, Robert; Dubois, Hans; Fernández Ortiz, Elena; … - European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and … - 2019
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