Winter, Fabian Moritz Swante; Kataria, Mitesh (2013). Third party assessments in trust problems with conflict of interest: An experiment on the effects of promisesm. Economics letters, 120(1), 53 - 56. Elsevier 10.1016/j.econlet.2013.03.028
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Is it possible to elicit reliable assessment from an assessor having a 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 an incentivized assessment (i.e. when the assessor gains higher payoff if the assessment is correct).
Item Type: |
Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
03 Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences > Social Sciences > Institute of Sociology |
UniBE Contributor: |
Winter, Fabian Moritz Swante |
Subjects: |
300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology 300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 330 Economics 300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 390 Customs, etiquette & folklore |
ISSN: |
0165-1765 |
Publisher: |
Elsevier |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Fabian Moritz Swante Winter |
Date Deposited: |
21 May 2014 17:35 |
Last Modified: |
05 Dec 2022 14:30 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.1016/j.econlet.2013.03.028 |
BORIS DOI: |
10.7892/boris.45101 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/45101 |