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Often information structures are such that while individual reputation building is impossible groups of agents would have the possibility of building up a reputation. We experimentally examine whether groups of sellers in markets that suffer from moral hazard are able to build up reputations...
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Arguing that consumers are the carriers of firms’ reputations, we examine the role of consumer networks for trust in …' incentives for reputation building and, thus, enhances trust and efficiency in markets. This efficiency-enhancing effect is …
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anonymous, such markets perform poorly: sellers are not trustworthy, and buyers do not trust sellers. If sellers are …, we find that competition, coupled with some minimal information, eliminates the trust problem almost completely. …
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We conducted six treatments of a standard moral hazard experiment with hidden action. All treatments had identical Nash equilibria. However, the behavior in all treatments and periods was inconsistent with established agency theory (Nash equilibrium). In the early periods of the experiment,...
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We conducted six treatments of a standard moral hazard experiment with hidden action. All treatments had identical Nash equilibria. However, the behavior in all treatments and periods was inconsistent with established agency theory (Nash equilibrium). In the early periods of the experiment,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010481554
We conducted six treatments of a standard moral hazard experiment with hidden action. All treatments had identical Nash equilibria. However, the behavior in all treatments and periods was inconsistent with established agency theory (Nash equilibrium). In the early periods of the experiment,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009421311
information even when costly. We find fairly high trust and trustworthiness levels in all markets, with buyers showing a …, ceteris paribus, evidence that the availability of feedback-provision histories increases buyer trust by reducing missing …
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We experimentally examine the effects of price competition in markets for experience goods where sellers can build up reputations for quality. We compare price competition to monopolistic markets and markets where prices are exogenously fixed (somewhere between the endogenous oligopoly and...
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We experimentally examine the effects of price competition in markets for expe-rience goods where sellers can build up reputations for quality. We compare price competition to monopolistic markets and markets where prices are exogenously fixed (somewhere between the endogenous oligopoly and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010498486
anonymous, such markets perform poorly: sellers are not trustworthy, and buyers do not trust sellers. If sellers are …, we find that competition, coupled with some minimal information, eliminates the trust problem almost completely …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014054391