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What is Social Capital? The Determinants of Trust and Trustworthiness
Glaeser, Edward L.; Laibson, David; Scheinkman, José; … - 2010
manner towards higher status individuals, and therefore status increases earnings in the experiment. As such, high status …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014150214
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Economic cooperation In Turkish culture: Public goods games and lonely elephants
Beranek, Benjamin; Duman, Alper - 2010
While the public good experiment has been used to analyze cooperation among various groups in Western Europe and North … Turkish university students informally self govern. By employing the public good experiment among a cohort of students … altruistic punishment, to antisocial punishment, and ultimately to enhanced cooperation in Turkish society. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011807205
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Economic cooperation In Turkish culture : public goods games and lonely elephants
Beranek, Benjamin; Duman, Alper - 2010
While the public good experiment has been used to analyze cooperation among various groups in Western Europe and North … Turkish university students informally self govern. By employing the public good experiment among a cohort of students … altruistic punishment, to antisocial punishment, and ultimately to enhanced cooperation in Turkish society. -- Cooperation ; Free …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008857832
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Competition, confidence and gender : shifting the focus from the overconfident to the realistic
Lénárd, Tünde; Horn, Dániel; Kiss, Hubert János - 2023
The gender gap in competitiveness is argued to explain gender differences in later life outcomes, including career choices and the gender wage gap. In experimental settings, a prevalent explanation attributes this gap to males being more (over)confident than females (we call this the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014452569
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Co-managing common pool resources : do formal rules have to be adapted to traditional ecological norms
Vollan, Björn; Prediger, Sebastian; Frölich, Markus - 2013
We examine the effectiveness of three democratically chosen rules that alleviate the coordination and cooperation … framed field experiment that is based on a rangeland model for semi-arid regions and carried out with communal farmers in … limitation of livestock numbers. All rules were designed in a way that facilitated cooperation or coordination of actions. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009764816
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Trust, Cooperation, and Polycentric Climate Negotiations
Cole, Daniel H. - 2014
outcome of which depends on subjectively perceived probabilities of cooperation, which in turn depend on levels of mutual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014150702
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Overconfidence increases productivity
Kinari, Yusuke; Mizutani, Noriko; Ohtake, Fumio; … - 2011
Recent studies report that productivity increases under tournament reward structures than under piece rate reward structures. We conduct maze-solving experiments under both reward structures and reveal that overconfidence is a significant factor in increasing productivity. Specifically, subjects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332484
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Sleep restriction and time-of-day impacts on simple social interaction
Dickinson, David L.; McElroy, Todd - 2016
Simple bargaining games are the foundation of more complex social interactions necessary for healthy relationships and well‐functioning societies. Neuroscience research has shown that high‐level deliberative thinking processes are necessary for social‐decision making - it seems cognitively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450381
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Using experimental economics to measure social capital and predict financial decisions
Karlan, Dean - 2005
Questions remain as to whether results from experimental economics games are generalizable to real decisions in non-laboratory settings. Furthermore, important questions persist about whether social capital can help solve seemingly missing credit markets. I conduct two experiments, a Trust game...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011613263
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Overconfidence increases productivity
Kinari, Yusuke; Mizutani, Noriko; Ōtake, Fumio; … - 2011
as an expectation bias. -- Expectation ; Overconfidence ; Reward structure ; Productivity ; Experiment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009267775