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Age and the development of trust and reciprocity
Sutter, Matthias; Kocher, Martin G. - 2003
We examine the degree of trust and reciprocity in an experimental trust game with 662 participants from six different …
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Age and the development of trust and reciprocity
Sutter, Matthias; Kocher, Martin G. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2003
We examine the degree of trust and reciprocity in an experimental trust game with 662 participants from six different … age groups, ranging from 8 year old primary school children to retired persons in their late sixties. Although both trust … research has devoted surprisingly little attention to their development with age. Our results provide clear evidence that trust …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005866861
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The investment game with asymmetric information
Coricelli, Giorgi; Morales, Luis Gonzalez; Mahlstedt, Amelie - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2003
We analyze the effects of introducing asymmetric information andexpectations in the investment game (Berg et al., 1995). In our experiment,only the trustee knows the size of the surplus. Subjects’expectations about each other’s behavior are also elicited. Our resultsshow that average payback...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005866876
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Wages, Length of Relationship and Bargaining Power:An experimental study in a world of complete contracts
Dittrich, Dennis A. V. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2004
To explain potential sources of wage rigidity this article analyzes a model of reciprocalkindness applied to a repeated ultimatum game with changing and nonzeroconflict payoffs. The model is also tested in a laboratory experiment. The resultsare compatible with the rentsharingapproach to wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005866814
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Trust in cooperation or ability? - An experimental study on gender differences
Schwieren, Christiane; Sutter, Matthias - 2003
We examine experimentally two different types of trust: trust in another party's cooperation and trust in ability. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005845180
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Context and Interpretation in Laboratory Experiments:The Case of Reciprocity
Levati, Maria Vittoria; Miettinen, Topi; Rai, Birendra K. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2010
The existing literature acknowledges that a mismatch between the experimenter'sand the subjects' models of an experimental task can adversely aect the interpretation ofdata from laboratory experiments. We discuss why the two common experimental designs(between-subjects and within-subjects) used...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009248911
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Social identity and trust - An experimental investigation
Güth, Werner; Levati, M. Vittoria; Ploner, Matteo - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2006
We experimentally examine how group identity affects trust behaviorin an investment game. In one treatment, group …) to minimal group identityto two-dimensional group identity, we find no significant differencesin trust decisions. However …, trust is significantly and positively correlatedwith contribution decisions, suggesting that "social" trust isbehaviorally …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005866633
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Vertrauen und Unternehmen
Güth, Werner; Kliemt, Hartmut - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2007
Bereits im Jahre 1980 wählte Horst Albach einen spieltheoretischen und experimentellökonomischenZugang zum Vertrauensproblem in der Ökonomik. Dieser Weg wird erneutbeschritten. Es wird aufgezeigt, dass neuere spieltheoretische und experimentelle Arbeitennicht nur die explanativen Grenzen des...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005866636
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The Psychological Game of Trust
Dufwenberg, Martin; Güth, Werner - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2004
ideas apply to a game of trust. We discuss whether theflexibility of the approach is a virtue or a vice. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005866813
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Trust in cooperation or ability? - An experimental study on gender differences
Schwieren, Christiane; Sutter, Matthias - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2003
We examine experimentally two different types of trust: trust in another party's cooperation and trust in ability. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005866903