Truth and trust in communication: Experiments on the effect of a competitive context

Games and Economic Behavior

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 325-338

  Rode, Julian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Asymmetric information; Automatic information processing; Competition; Context effects; Experimental economics; Subjective beliefs; Trust; Truth telling

Indexed keywords

EID: 72149100968     PISSN: 08998256     EISSN: 10902473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geb.2009.05.008     Document Type: Article

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