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Trust, Reciprocity, and a Preference for Economic Freedom : Experimental Evidence
McCannon, Bryan - 2013
Do those who prefer economic freedom behave differently than those who prefer public intervention to perceived problems? Experiments of the Trust Game and Dictator Game are employed to measure an individual's behavior. Additionally, a quiz assessing an individual's preference for private...
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Distributional preferences explain individual behavior across games and time
Hedegaard, Morten; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Müller, Daniel; … - 2019
We use a large and heterogeneous sample of the Danish population to investigate the importance of distributional preferences for behavior in a public good game and a trust game. We find robust evidence for the significant explanatory power of distributional preferences. In fact, compared to...
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Why did he do that? : using counterfactuals to study the effect of intentions in extensive form games
Engler, Yola; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Page, Lionel - 2016
We investigate the role of intentions in two-player two-stage games. For this purpose we systematically vary the set of opportunity sets the first mover can chose from and study how the second mover reacts not only to opportunities of gains but also of losses created by the choice of the first...
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Are happier people less judgmental of other people's selfish behaviors? : laboratory evidence from trust and gift exchange games
Drouvelis, Michalis; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2013
What determines people's moral judgments of selfish behaviors? Here we study whether people's normative views in trust and gift exchange games, which underlie many situations of economic and social significance, are themselves functions of positive emotions. We used experimental survey methods...
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Feedback and emotions in the trust game
Bischoff, Ivo; Ihtiyar, Özcan - 2015 - This version: January 13, 2015
We conduct an experiment on the impact of feedback in the Trust Game. In our treatment group, the Trustee has the opportunity to give feedback to the Investor (free in choice of wording and contents). The feedback option is found to reduce the share of Investors who sent no resources to the...
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Trust and communication in a property rights dilemma
Ahn, T. K.; Balafoutas, Loukas; Batsaikhan, Mongoljin; … - 2016
theft and most groups achieve much greater efficiency in the presence of communication. Ease of identifying who has engaged … in theft varies across the two communication treatments, but is of minor importance to the outcome. We find several …
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Communication and hidden action : evidence from a person-to-person lending experiment
Brown, Martin; Schmitz, Jan; Zehnder, Christian - 2018 - This version: November 2018
-to-person lending. We show that potential hiddenaction undermines the positive effect of communication on repayment behavior and …
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Communication and hidden action : a credit market experiment
Brown, Martin; Schmitz, Jan; Zehnder, Christian - 2023
We study the impact of pre-contractual communication on market outcomes when economic relationships are subject to … (first movers) prior to entering the credit relationship. Communication reduces moral hazard (strategic default) and … weaker impact of communication. Borrowers are more likely to renege on repayment promises when they can hide opportunistic …
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Trust and Communication in a Property Rights Dilemma
Ahn, T. K. - 2016
theft and most groups achieve much greater efficiency in the presence of communication. Ease of identifying who has engaged … in theft varies across the two communication treatments, but is of minor importance to the outcome. We find several …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012986795
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Teams promise but do not deliver
Nielsen, Kirby; Bhattacharya, Puja; Kagel, John H.; … - 2019
Individuals and two-person teams play a hidden - action trust game with pre - play communication. We replicate previous … results for individuals that non-binding promises increase cooperation rates. But this does not extend to teams. Wh ile teams …
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