Social norms, information, and trust among strangers: theory and evidence

DOI10.1007/s00199-011-0659-xzbMath1268.91154MaRDI QIDQ1949196

Huan Xie, Yong-Ju Lee, John Duffy

Publication date: 6 May 2013

Published in: Economic Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00199-011-0659-x

zbMATH Keywords

information; social norms; experimental economics; trust game; random matching; reputational mechanisms; trust and reciprocity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

91D30: Social networks; opinion dynamics

91A10: Noncooperative games

91A05: 2-person games

91B68: Matching models

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