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True Overconfidence, Revealed Through Actions : An Experiment

Cheung, Stephen L. - 2017

relative placement, enabling joint estimation of individual risk preferences and implied subjective beliefs of placing in the …

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Self Confidence Spillovers and Motivated Beliefs

Banerjee, Ritwik - 2019

artefactual field experiment in India, we show that success when competing in a task increases the performers' self-confidence and … competitiveness in the subsequent task. We also find that such spillovers affect the self-confidence of low-status individuals more … than that of high-status individuals. Receiving good news under Affirmative Action, however, boosts confidence across tasks …

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Measuring Trust : Experiments and Surveys in Contrast and Combination

Naef, Michael - 2009

Trust is a concept that has attracted - significant attention in economic theory and research within the last two decades: it has been applied in a number of contexts and has been investigated both as an explanatory and as a dependent variable. In this paper, we explore the questions of what...

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Monetary Incentives versus Class Credit : Evidence from a Large Classroom Trust Experiment

Luccasen, III, R. Andrew - 2017

This paper reports an experimental investigation of a trust game using either cash or class credit as incentives to participants. We recruit from two auditorium classes. In one class, each token has cash value; in the other, each token is worth extra-credit points added to the students' overall...

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Religion, Discrimination and Trust

Chuah, Swee-Hoon - 2016

We propose that religion impacts trust and trustworthiness in ways that depend on how individuals are socially identified and connected. Religiosity and religious affiliation may serve as markers for statistical discrimination. Further, affiliation to the same religion may enhance group...

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Building Trust through Knowledge Sharing : Implications for Incentive System Design

Haesebrouck, Katlijn - 2020

We examine whether knowledge sharing can enhance the efficacy of implicit, trust-based incentives. Using a stark laboratory experiment, we find support for theory suggesting that individuals believe that their knowledge is an important part of their identity, making it costly to share, but...

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Risky Data : The Combined Effect of Framing, Trust and Risk Preferences on the Intended Participation in the Consumer Data Right

Biddle, Nicholas - 2019

The Consumer Data Right (CDR), which began in Australian on the 1st of July 2019, aims to give Australian customers a right to access data about them held by businesses, and also to share this information with accredited and trusted third parties of their choice. This enhanced flow of...

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Why are Economists so Different? Nature, Nurture and Gender Effects in a Simple Trust Game

Haucap, Justus - 2014

We analyze the behavior of 577 economics and law students in a simple binary trust experiment. While economists are both significantly less trusting and less trustworthy than law students, this difference is largely due to differences between female law and economics students. While female law...

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Contracts and Trust

Asaad, Colleen Tokar - 2014

Social preferences and formal contract enforcement are two mechanisms that facilitate performance of an agreement. The standard argument is that formal contracting substitutes when social preferences are lacking. We, alternatively, explore the hypothesis that social preferences and contract...

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Trust, Reciprocity, and Betrayal Aversion : Theoretical and Experimental Insights

Breuer, Wolfgang - 2014

We propose that there are three determinants of sender behavior in trust games: Beliefs re-garding the amounts returned, risk aversion, and reciprocity. Particularly, we are interested in the role of reciprocity because the possibility of negative expected reciprocal utility may lead to...

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