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What is trustworthiness and what drives it?

Cox, James C.; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Neururer, Daniel - 2014

definitions of trust and trustworthiness based on revealed willingness to accept vulnerability and the response to it. …

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Guilt from Promise-Breaking and Trust in Markets for Expert Services - Theory and Experiment

Beck, Adrian; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Qiu, Jianying; … - 2010

We examine the influence of guilt and trust on the performance of credence goods markets. An expert can make a promise … to a consumer first, whereupon the consumer can express her trust by paying an interaction price before the expert …

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The overprotective parent: Bureaucratic agencies and natural hazard management

Raschky, Paul A. - 2007

Due to the public good character of protective measures against natural disasters events, their allocation is very often in the realm of bureaucratic and expert agencies. Based on the economic theory of bureaucracy the behavior of a bureau providing the good protection against natural hazards is...

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Who is going to save us now? Bureaucrats, politicians and risky tasks

Raschky, Paul A.; Weck-Hannemann, Hannelore - 2007

The paper compares the policy choices regarding risk-transfer against low-probability-high-loss events between elected and appointed public officials. Empirical evidence using data on U.S. municipality-level shows that appointed city managers are more likely to adopt federal risk-transfer...

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How much income redistribution? An explanation based on vote-buying and corruption

Balafoutas, Loukas - 2009

This paper studies how income tax rates are determined and how they are related to government corruption in the form of … equilibrium there is only limited redistribution and income tax rates are a negative function of government corruption. When rich … voters can bribe the government, an additional equilibrium with zero taxation is possible. The link between corruption and …

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Ostracism and Theft in Heterogeneous Groups

Baier, Alexandra; Balafoutas, Loukas; Jaber-Lopez, Tarek - 2021

behavior and the functioning of a social group. We present data from a laboratory experiment, in which participants face a …

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Social preferences and political attitudes: An online experiment on a large heterogeneous sample

Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Muller, Daniel - 2017

This paper investigates - in a large heterogeneous sample - the relationship between social preferences on the one hand, and socioeconomic factors and political preferences on the other hand. Socioeconomic factors correlate with social preferences, and social preferences robustly shape political...

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Donations to increase productivity in public good production: Experimental evidence

Struwe, Natalie; Blanco, Esther; Walker, James - 2023

This research is inspired by in-kind donations that have the capacity to increase the marginal benefit (productivity) in provision of public goods, for example by providing critical infrastructure that increases the productivity of resources utilized by local public good providers. We provide...

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Bad bankers no more? Truth-telling and (dis)honesty in the finance industry

Huber, Christoph; Huber, Jürgen - 2020

we vary the situational context of subjects' decisions (abstract, neutral, finance context) by applying differently … framed instructions. We find that contexts matter for financial professionals: they act more honestly in a financial context …

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Social norms, third-party observation and third-party reward

Sutter, Matthias; Lindner, Peter; Platsch, Daniela - 2009

This paper examines the influence of third-party observation and third-party reward on behavior in an experimental prisoner's dilemma (PD) game. Whereas the existing literature on third-party intervention as a means to sustain social norms has dealt almost exclusively with third-party...

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