In one-shot investment game experiments where each player's payo is a convexcombination of own and other's prot, trust …

This paper examines the occurrence and fragility of information cascades in laboratory experiments.One group of low … information.In line with existing experiments on information cascades, we find some evidence that lowinformed subjects follow the …

experiments reveals the considerable economic impact of cohesion: higher cohesion groups are significantly more likely to achieve …

Direct transfers allow heirs to freely use what has been passed on to them. Bequeathers who do not trust their … trust their descendant. When transfers to the descendant are less efficient than investments in a foundation, due to, e …

Social life offers innumerable instances in which trust relations involve multiple agents. In an experiment, we study a … new setting called Collective Trust Game where there are multiple trustees, who may have an incentive to coordinate their … predominant convention with regard to trustworthiness. In this respect, the Collective Trust Games offers a richer pattern of …

This paper investigates how group membership and competition among trustors interact with trust and trustworthiness in … a laboratory one-shot trust game. To analyze these effects, we apply a 2x2 design. We induce group membership by letting …

The "grammar of trust" is one the most explored loci in game theory and behavioural economics. However, still much … needs to be understood about the nature of trust in non-enforceable, personalised interactions, in markets and within … organizations. This experimental study aims at contributing to the understanding of new dimensions of trust by exploring how risky …

knowledge. We test this result in a laboratory experiment. The data cannot confirm the predicted welfare dominance of private …

The 'grammar of trust' is one of the most explored loci in behavioural and experimental economics. This experimental … study aims at contributing to the understanding of new dimensions of trust by exploring how risky trust may foster a trustee … of risky trust, which generates more trustworthy and reciprocal behaviour in untrustworthy people. …