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Publications (7)


Different perspectives on trust: Results from a German Japanese symposium at the University of Cologne
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From the lab to the field: The economics of trust

January 2009

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We present a selective review of recent developments in the economic laboratory research on trust. Specifically, we emphasize that trust is systematically influenced by (a) a motive for distributional justice and the reciprocity norm, and (b) the interaction between strategic behavior and its social and institutional environment (the context). Finally, we demonstrate how laboratory research can be utilized to "engineer trust" in an anonymous electronic market place.




Measuring Motivations for the Reciprocal Responses Observed in a Simple Dilemma Game

February 1997

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Experimental Economics

We report on an experiment that uses a simple dilemma game to compare two characterizations of reciprocal behavior, differing on whether it is necesary to account for intentions in order to accurately predict and measure reciprocal actions. The design of the experiment allows us to study both positive and negative reciprocity in a simple framework. We find little evidence that intentions matter. Knowing the preferences for relative payoffs is sufficient to predict nearly all the reciprocity we observe.



Citations (4)


... As a result, for decades trust has been in the focus of research in economics (e.g. Arrow, 1974; Greiner & Ockenfels, 2009) and psychology (e.g. Schul, Mayo, & Burnstein, 2004; Todorov, Baron, & Oosterhof, 2008), as well as in neighboring disciplines such as evolutionary theory (Yamagishi, Cook, & Watabe, 1998), neurobiology (Kosfeld, Heinrichs, Zak, Fischbacher, & Fehr, 2005), sociology (Coleman, 1990), and philosophy (Lahno, 2002). ...

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How activating cognitive content shapes trust: A subliminal priming study
From the lab to the field: The economics of trust
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  • January 2009

... Es ist absehbar, dass dies ein zäher und langwieriger Prozess sein wird. Im Falle einer Deadline für die Verhandlungen könnten in der Literatur bekannte strategische Überlegungen zu Angeboten in letzter Minute führen, was wiederum ein Scheitern der Verhandlungen oder ein ineffizientes Ergebnis zur Folge haben könnte (Ma & Manove, 1993;Fershtman & Seidmann, 1993;Roth & Ockenfels, 2002). ...

Late - minute bidding and the rules for ending second - price auctions: Evidence from eBay and Amazon on the Internet
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  • January 2003

American Economic Review

... Since the derivative in (7) 12 The derivative in (7) coincides with Ockenfels and Roth [25] where they argue that there exists convergence of prices in auction markets and prices in retail markets: as goods become abundant in the market, more bidders find them, which drives the auction price down to the retail price. ...

Convergence of prices for a new commodity:''Iraq most wanted''cards on eBay
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... Brandts and Charness (2003) Not all laboratory evidence appears to support the relevance of intentions-based reciprocity. Bolton, Brandts, and Ockenfels (1998) find strong evidence for distributional preferences, no evidence for positive reciprocity, and only weak evidence for negative reciprocity. We believe, however, that their findings do not show the absence of reciprocity but are rather the result of an experimental design that very likely failed to elicit kindness and unkindness perceptions. ...

Measuring Motivations for the Reciprocal Responses Observed in a Simple Dilemma Game
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  • February 1997

Experimental Economics