The strategy method lowers measured trustworthy behavior

Economics Letters

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 157-159

  Casari, Marco ^a   Cason, Timothy N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Game method; Laboratory Experiments; Reciprocity; Trust

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349124715     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2009.03.012     Document Type: Article

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