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Trust and willingness to pay for nanotechnology food

Roosen, J.; Bieberstein, A.; Blanchemanche, S.; Goddard, E. - In: Food Policy 52 (2015) C, pp. 75-83

We analyze the role of trust in the evaluation of a new food technology, namely nanotechnology. A literature review in the social and economic sciences reveals that many different trust concepts are available. The economics literature suggests that trust can lead to lower efforts of...

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Worlds apart? An exploration of prescribing and medicine-taking decisions by patients, GPs and local policy makers

Solomon, Josie; Knapp, Peter; Raynor, D.K.; Atkin, Karl - In: Health Policy 112 (2013) 3, pp. 264-272

-based standards and increasing patient involvement. Shared decision-making brings the patient into prescribing decisions, and … guidelines introduce a third decision-maker, the policy maker, into the doctor–patient consultation. This study explored the … decision-making processes used by patients and GPs in comparison to local policy makers. …

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Microfoundations of Social Capital

Thöni, Christian; Tyran, Jean-Robert; Wengström, Erik - Austrian Center for Labor Economics and the Analysis of … - 2010

cooperation behavior and we provide evidence on the microfoundation of this relation. We run a large-scale public goods experiment …

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Religion and trust: an experimental study

Tan, Jonathan H. W.; Vogel, Claudia - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

We investigate the relationship between religion and trust. Using a questionnaire, we measure: i) general religiosity, and; ii) the extent of religious beliefs, experience, and ritual. These are then analyzed with behaviour in a trust game (Berg et al., Games and Economic Behaviour, 1995), which...

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A trust game in loss domain.

Kvaløy, Ola; Luzuriaga, Miguel - Handelshøgskolen, Universitetet i Stavanger - 2014

In standard trust games, no trust is the default, and trust generates a potential gain. We investigate a reframed trust game in which full trust is default and where no trust generates a loss. We find significantly lower levels of trust and trustworthiness in loss domain when full trust is...

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You always meet twice: An experiment on intrinsic versus instrumental reciprocity

Johnsen, Åshild A; Kvaløy, Ola - Handelshøgskolen, Universitetet i Stavanger - 2014

In repeated games, it is hard to distinguish true prosocial behavior from strategic instrumental behavior. In particular, a player does not know whether a reciprocal action is intrinsically or instrumentally motivated. In this paper, we experimentally investigate the relationship between...

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Incentives and group identity

Masella, Paolo; Meier, Stephan; Zahn, Philipp - In: Games and Economic Behavior 86 (2014) C, pp. 12-25

This paper investigates in a principal–agent environment whether and how group membership influences the effectiveness of incentives and when incentives can have “hidden costs”, i.e., a detrimental effect. We show experimentally that in all interactions control mechanisms can have hidden...

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Whom do you distrust and how much does it cost? An experiment on the measurement of trust

McEvily, Bill; Radzevick, Joseph R.; Weber, Roberto A. - In: Games and Economic Behavior 74 (2012) 1, pp. 285-298

to the target of trust. We conduct an experiment in which we vary the target of trust among passersby at several …

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Voluntary formation of centralized sanctioning institutions

Sääksvuori, Lauri - In: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics … 44 (2013) C, pp. 150-159

This paper examines the voluntary formation of centralized sanctioning institutions. We introduce a simple model to study institution formation as a second-order cooperation problem where voluntary contributions to a common fund serve as an instrument to finance centralized sanctioning...

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Trust, Reciprocity, and Guanxi in China: An Experimental Investigation

Song, Fei; Cadsby, C. Bram; Bi, Yunyun - Department of Economics and Finance, College of … - 2012

We examine the influence of social distance on levels of trust and reciprocity in China. Social distance, reflected in the indigenous concept of guanxi, is of central importance to Chinese culture. In Study 1, some participants participated in two financially salient trust games to measure...

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