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Betrayal aversion versus principled trustfulness—How to explain risk avoidance and risky choices in trust games

Fetchenhauer, Detlef; Dunning, David - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 81 (2012) 2, pp. 534-541

Are decisions in a trust game more or less sensitive to changes in risk than decisions in a purely financial, non …-social decision-making task? Participants in a binary trust game (they could either keep $5 for sure or give it to a trustee with the … 80 percent and then were asked to decide whether to trust that other person. In addition, participants made a decision in …

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Trust as a social and emotional act: Noneconomic considerations in trust behavior

Dunning, David; Fetchenhauer, Detlef; Schlösser, Thomas M. - In: Journal of Economic Psychology 33 (2012) 3, pp. 686-694

We review research suggesting that decisions to trust strangers may not depend on economic dynamics as much as … emotional and social ones. Classic treatments of trust emphasize its instrumental or consequential nature, proposing that people … trust based on expectations that their trust will be honored and the size of reward if it is. Data from our labs, however …

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Trust and Reciprocity in Incentive Contracting

Rigdon, Mary - EconWPA - 2005

Principals can attempt to get agents to perform certain actions preferable to the principal by using ex post}punishments and rewards to align incentives. Field data is mixed on whether, and to what extent, such informal incentive contracting (paradoxically) crowds out efficient solutions to the...

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Gender and the labor market: What have we learned from field and lab experiments?

Azmat, Ghazala; Petrongolo, Barbara - 2014

We discuss the contribution of the experimental literature to the understanding of both traditional and previously unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new findings on gender discrimination, and while they have...

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Better Sexy than Flexy? A Lab Experiment Assessing the Impact of Perceived Attractiveness and Personality Traits on Hiring Decisions

Baert, Stijn; Decuypere, Lynn - 2013

attractiveness and personality traits on hiring decisions. Our results indicate that attractiveness and conscientiousness, followed …

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Gender and the Labor Market: What Have We Learned from Field and Lab Experiments?

Azmat, Ghazala; Petrongolo, Barbara - 2014

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A theoretical model of the investors exchange

Aldrich, Eric M.; Friedman, Daniel - 2017

Investors' Exchange LLC (IEX) is a newly approved public exchange that is designed to discourage aggressive high-frequency trading. We explain how IEX differs from traditional continuous double auction markets and present summary data on IEX transactions by trader class and or- der type. Our...

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What's the Risk from Competing? Competition Aversion and the Gender Wage Gap

Choe, Chung; Jung, SeEun; Oaxaca, Ronald L. - 2022

Laboratory experiments involving a real effort task are conducted to examine the importance of gender differences in competition aversion for generating gender wage gaps. Cross-subject design treatment and control experiments suggest that gender differences in risk aversion play no significant...

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For love or reward? Characterising preference for giving to parents in an experimental setting

Porter, Maria; Adams, Abi - 2014

This paper examines the motivation for intergenerational transfers between adult children and their parents, and the nature of preferences for such giving behaviour, in an experimental setting. Participants in our experiment play a series of dictator games with parents and strangers, in which we...

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How low can you go? Charity reporting when donations signal income and generosity

Bracha, Anat; Vesterlund, Lise - 2013

Consistent with nonprofit fundraising practices, donation visibility has been shown to increase giving. While concern for status is used to explain this response, the authors argue that this explanation relies on the assumption that giving signals only income or generosity. When giving signals...

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