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Trust, communication and contracts: Experimental evidence

Ben-Ner, Avner; Putterman, Louis - 2006

We introduce opportunities for pre-play communication and to enter binding or non-binding contracts in trust games, and …

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Lavish returns on cheap talk: Non-binding communication in a trust experiment

Ben-Ner, Avner; Putterman, Louis; Ren, Ting - 2007

We let subjects interact with anonymous partners in trust (investment) games with and without one of two kinds of pre …

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On the Malleability of Fairness Ideals: Order Effects in Partial and Impartial Allocation Tasks

Dengler-Roscher, Kathrin; Montinari, Natalia; … - 2015

How malleable are people's fairness ideals? Although fairness is an oft-invoked concept in allocation situations, it is still unclear whether and to what extent people's allocations reflect their fairness ideals. We investigate in a laboratory experiment whether people's fairness ideals vary...

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Trust and cooperation at a confluence of worlds: An experiment in Xinjiang, China

Zhang, Zhe; Putterman, Louis G.; Zhang, Xu - 2018

We study trust and willingness to cooperate among and between Uyghur and Han college students in Xinjiang, China, where … find that members of each ethnicity show favoritism towards those of their own ethnicity in both trust and cooperation and … differently in their willingness to cooperate relative to trust, although both trust and trustworthiness positively correlate with …

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Fairness and Promises for Sale

Holm, Håkan J.; Daielson, Anders - 2005

the individual and thereby assessing the limits of these fairness concerns. This study reports on Trust game experiments … by changing to an unfair allocation. This modification appeared to make the trust aspect more salient which can explain a … relatively strong consistency between trust behavior and answers to attitudinal trust questions. …

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Do Financial Variables Provide Information About the Swiss Business Cycle?

Alessandrini, Fabio - Institut für Schweizerisches Bankwesen <Zürich>; … - 2003

This paper extends the literature on the information content of financial variables with respect to future economic growth. It shows that variables originating from both the equity market and the bond market in Switzerland are useful indicators for forecasting the Swiss business cycle. In...

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Intertemporal prosocial choice: The inconsistency puzzle

Islam, Marco - 2022

How does delay in the realization of a prosocial decision affect prosocial choice? This paper first provides a meta-analysis that collects existing evidence on the temporal consistency of prosocial behavior. I show that the evidence on the delay effect on prosocial choice is contradicting but...

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An experiment on donations, personal stories, and bad luck

Bar-El, Ronen; Hatsor, Limor; Snir, Avichai - 2023

We conducted two fundraising experiments to study the effects (1) of compassion towards the beneficiary, and (2) of giving participants an opportunity to attribute small donations to luck. We find that exposing the participants to a plea to help the beneficiary increases the average donation....

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Generosity across contexts

Davis, Alexander L.; Miller, John H.; Weber, Roberto A. - 2011

Extensive research in economics explores generosity in monetary allocations, while generosity in non-laboratory contexts often involves the allocation of consumption goods or non-monetary harm. Psychological evidence suggests that generosity may be higher in such contexts. We compare generosity...

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The big carrot: High-stakes incentives revisited

Brañas-Garza, Pablo; García-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, … - 2009

Using an international dataset of about 35,000 subjects, this paper provides an empirical example of high-stakes incentives in relation to religious practice. First, we show that incentives (based on absolute belief) play a salient role in religious performance. Second, we find that, when both...

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