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Creditworthiness and trustworthiness are almost synonyms because, under asymmetric information, the act of conferring a … loan has the indirect effect of signaling the trustworthiness of the borrower. We test the creditworthiness/trustworthiness … nexus in an investment game experiment on a sample of participants/non-participants in a microfinance program in Argentina …
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Creditworthiness and trustworthiness are almost synonyms since the act of conferring a loan has the indirect effect of … signaling the trustworthiness of the borrower. We test the creditworthiness-trustworthiness nexus in an investment game … experiment on a sample of participants/non participants to a microfinance program in Argentina and find that trustors give …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008752120
Given the substantial amount of resources currently invested in microcredit programs, it is more important than ever to accurately assess the extent to which peer monitoring by borrowers faced with group liability contracts actually reduces moral hazard. We conduct a field experiment with women...
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Given the substantial amount of resources currently invested in microcredit programs, it is more important than ever to accurately assess the extent to which peer monitoring by borrowers faced with group liability contracts actually reduces moral hazard. We conduct a field experiment with women...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013069657
measuring trust and trustworthiness of members of real-life associations and of a demographically comparable sample of non … trust, and to one case with respect to trustworthiness. (c) However, people who are members of only “Olsonian” associations …The social capital literature attributes association members a key role in propagating inter-personal trust in the …
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This paper provides a description and background information related to the experimental project on “Trust and … trustworthiness in association members and in the society”. The main purpose of the project has been to test experimentally one of the … main theses of the social capital literature, i.e. that associations are key elements in the fabric of inter-personal trust …
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Rankings are a pervasive feature of the finance industry. Although they have no direct monetary consequences, rankings provide utility for intrinsic (positive self-image) and extrinsic (status) reasons. We recruit a unique subject pool of 204 financial professionals and investigate how anonymous...
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capital - especially questions concerning generalized trust or generalized morality - are strongly and significantly …
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of social capital - especially questions concerning generalized trust or generalized morality - are strongly and …
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We conduct a field trust game under a natural experiment context to test the impacts of urbanisation on trust. We … transformation of trust levels among co-villagers and towards outsiders. We test this conjecture in an experimental approach and more … generally, examine whether the urbanisation will produce significant impacts on in-group trust and out-group trust. The research …
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