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Third Party Assessments in Trust Problems with Conflict of
Interest: An Experiment on the Effects of Promises
- Abgebildete Person
- Erschienen
- 20. Dezember 2012
- Nummer des Discussion-Papers
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2012-067
- Schlagwort(e)
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cheap-talk
communication
oath
promises
trust game
- Zusammenfsg.
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Is it possible to elicit reliable assessment from an assessor with conflict of interest (e.g. a professor that writes a recommendation letter for a formal PhD student)? We propose an experimental test and show that compared to a not-incentivized assessment, a promise to give a truthful assessment reduces misreporting to the same extent as incentivized assessment (i.e. when assessor gain higher payoff if assessment is correct).
- article pub. typess JER
- Research article
- article languages JER
- Englisch
- JEL-Classification for JER
- A13 - Relation of Economics to Social Values ; C91 - Laboratory, Individual Behavior ; D0 - General