Trust is an important driver of economic transactions, but how do people decide whom to trust? We conduct an experiment to investigate whether people are able to predict trustworthiness by judging the face of a stranger. The behavior of the second player in the Trust Game is used as a measure of...

Der vorliegende Untersuch erarbeitet einen diskursanalytischen Zugang zum Thema Vertrauen. In einem Grundlagenteil entwickeln wir mit Rückgriff auf Sztompkas Vertrauens- und Links Interdiskurstheorie einen Vertrauensbegriff, der von der diskursiven Konstruktion der gesellschaftlichen...

The distinction of risk vs uncertainty as made by Knight has important implications for policy selection. Assuming the former when the latter is relevant can lead to wrong decisions. With the aid of a stylized model that describes a bank’s decision on how to allocate loans, the authors discuss...

This study examines the role of actual and perceived financial sophistication (i.e., financial literacy and confidence) for individuals' wealth accumulation. Using survey data from the German SAVE initiative, we find strong gender- and education-related differences in the distribution of the two...

Verbraucherschützer fordern häufig mehr Regulierungen, strengere Kontrollen und härtere Strafen bei Verstößen gegen die Verbraucherrechte. Doch sind Anbieter tatsächlich nur auf ihren Eigennutz bedacht und nutzen jede Möglichkeit der Selbstbereicherung aus? Anlässlich des...

People typically update their beliefs about their own abilities too little in response to feed-back, a phenomenon known as "conservatism", and some studies suggest that they overweight good relative to bad signals ("asymmetry"). We measure individual conservatism and asymmetry in three tasks...

Rohwaren werden in den Ketten der Agrar- und Ernährungswirtschaft international beschafft. Mangelhafte Transparenz innerhalb der Wertschöpfungskette ist kennzeichnend für die Beschaffungssituation, mit der viele Unternehmen konfrontiert sind. Oft besteht nur wenig Vertrauen in...

People typically update their beliefs about their own abilities too little in response to feed-back, a phenomenon known as “conservatism”, and some studies suggest that they overweight good relative to bad signals (“asymmetry”). We measure individual conservatism and asymmetry in three...

Analysis of the Deepwater Horizon disaster and the accumulatory decline of BP demonstrates both the analytical efficacy of the capital-as-power (CasP) approach to value theory, and the irreducible role of objects in the process of accumulation. Rather than productivity per se, accumulation...

This study examines the role of actual and perceived financial sophistication (i.e., financial literacy and confidence) for individuals' wealth accumulation. Using survey data from the German SAVE initiative, we find strong gender- and education-related differences in the distribution of the two...

The distinction of risk vs uncertainty as made by Knight has important implications for policy selection. Assuming the former when the latter is relevant can lead to wrong decisions. With the aid of a stylized model that describes a bank's decision on how to allocate loans, the authors discuss...

I characterize and discuss the challenges and pitfalls we must face to grow out for good of recent and future financial crises and economic recessions. I propose a brief history of the 2008 crisis and insist on the loss of confidence within the banking and financial sector, which propagated...