Beliefs and actions in the trust game: creating instrumental variables to estimate the causal effect

DOI10.1016/J.GEB.2014.10.006zbMath1311.91072OpenAlexW2147289934MaRDI QIDQ2345224

Georg Weizsäcker, Miguel A. Costa-Gomes, Steffen Huck

Publication date: 19 May 2015

Published in: Games and Economic Behavior (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geb.2014.10.006

zbMATH Keywords

instrumental variablesbelief elicitationsocial capitaltrust game

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Rationality and learning in game theory (91A26) Experimental studies (91A90)

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