Trust, but verify?: monitoring, inspection costs, and opportunism under limited observability

Is feedback on trustworthiness necessary for the functioning of economic relationships? In many real-world economic environments, such feedback can at best be acquired through costly monitoring, raising questions of how trust and efficiency can be maintained. In the lab, we conduct a modified finite...

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Hauptverfasser: Goeschl, Timo (VerfasserIn) , Jarke, Johannes Stephan (VerfasserIn)
Dokumenttyp: Article (Journal)
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 12 August 2017
In: Journal of economic behavior & organization
Year: 2017, Jahrgang: 142, Pages: 320-330
ISSN:1879-1751
DOI:10.1016/j.jebo.2017.07.028
Online-Zugang:Verlag, Volltext: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2017.07.028
Verlag, Volltext: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167268117302068
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