Bolle, Friedel; Kaehler, Jessica - In: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE) 163 (2007) 3, pp. 428-447
Trustworthiness can be conveyed by sending a costly signal in advance. In an experiment, we find that the smaller the percentage of trustworthy people in a group, the higher is their percentage of signaling. The introduction of signaling has strong distributional effects. It may be efficient...