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trust and reciprocity in a population where agents play both roles (trustor and trustee). Our experiment consists on three … a direct reputation for both roles. We find that trustees’ direct reputation has a positive effect on reciprocity, but … reputation in both roles. We show that the increase in trust is mainly linked to the formation of mutual trust–reciprocity …
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The intention to “invest” in the Trust Game in extensive form revealed by a move could conceal different motivations. Whether the motive hidden beneath the manifest behaviour of the first mover is the desire to invest in a relationship of mutual advantage with the trustee or the desire to be...
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Several online market sites, such as eBay, have implemented reputation management mechanisms in order to improve cooperation. In this article, we aim at investigating the emergence of trust and cooperation in presence of reputation mechanism. In a series of experiments based on the trust game...
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In this paper we provide evidence that trust and reciprocity, the two key elements of social capital, are affected by … trusting and reciprocal behaviour and we show significant cross-country differences between the levels of trust and reciprocity … trusting or reciprocal behaviour, while gender does not affect any of them. We report that reciprocity is affected by the same …
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We investigate the role of intentions in two-player two-stage games. For this purpose we systematically vary the set of opportunity sets the first mover can chose from and study how the second mover reacts not only to opportunities of gains but also of losses created by the choice of the first...
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behaviour that have been documented in a number of experimental studies, whereas existing models of intention-based reciprocity …
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reciprocity. In doing so we replicate and extend the results first reported by Croson and Buchan (1999). We find that men exhibit … greater trust than women do while women show much higher levels of reciprocity. Trusting behavior is driven strongly by …
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The paper aims at defining the role of intentions for reciprocity. The ultimatum game is modified, by adding a kind of …
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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's provision and charging decisions. We argue that the expert's...
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