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Reputation systems aim to induce honest behavior in online trade by providing information about past conduct of users …. Online reputation, however, is not directly connected to a person, but only to the virtual identity of that person. Users can … therefore shed a negative reputation by creating a new account. We study the effects of such identity changes on the efficiency …
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can disentangle self-selection from reputation effects. Based on 476 taxi rides with four different types of taxis, we can … show strong reputation effects on the prices and service quality of drivers, while there is practically no evidence of a …
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In recent years the academic world has experienced a mushrooming of journals that falsely pretend to be legitimate academic outlets. We study this phenomenon using information from 46,000 researchers seeking promotion in Italian academia. About 5% of them have published in journals included in...
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We examine whether a company's corporate reputation gained from their CSR activities and a company leader's reputation … experimental evidence that good corporate reputation causally buffers individuals' negative fairness judgment following the firm …'s decision to profiteer from an increase in the demand. Bad corporate reputation does not make the decision to profiteer as any …
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We analyze the economic consequences on firm profitability, performance, and investments of having another firm in the same market affiliated with a criminal organization. We do so by evaluating the spillover effects of a law providing the judicial administration of organized crime firms through...
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When we take a cab we may feel cheated if the driver takes an unnecessarily long route despite the lack of a contract or promise to take the shortest possible path. Is our decision to take the cab affected by our belief that we may end up feeling cheated? Is the behavior of the driver affected...
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We use an online real-effort experiment to investigate how bonus-based pay and worker productivity interact with workplace cheating. Firms often use bonus-based compensation plans, such as group bonuses and firm-wide profit sharing, that induce considerable uncertainty in how much workers are...
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We show that temporally distancing the decision task from the payment of the reward increases honest behavior. Each of 427 Israeli soldiers fulfilling their mandatory military service rolled a six-sided die in private and reported the outcome to the unit's cadet coordinator. For every point...
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assumptions and hypotheses. We study the dynamic effect of different welfare arrangements on benefit fraud. In particular, we …
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welfare fraud but report their income honestly anyway; (iii) examples of low compliance tend to increase tax evasion while …
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