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WINS Seminar on November 06, 2014 at 3pm (ct.), IRI THESys

Dear colleagues
We welcome you to the session of the WINS Seminar series (Seminar of the
Berlin Workshop in Institutional Analysis of Social-Ecological Systems) on
November 06, 2014.

Timo Goeschl, Heidelberg University and Johannes Jarke, University of
Hamburg): 
Trust, but verify? When trustworthiness is observable only through (costly)
monitoring

Timo Goeschl (PhD, Cambridge 2000) is Professor of Economics and director of
the Research Center for Environmental Economics at Heidelberg University.
Previously, he held faculty appointments at the University of Cambridge and
the University of Wisconsin-Madison and research appointments at University
College London and Cambridge. Timo is co-editor of Environmental and
Resource Economics and a Research Associate at the Centre for European
Economic Research  ZEW in Mannheim.  He serves on the scientific board of
RWI-Essen and in the Senate Commission on Biodiversity Research of the
German Research Foundation DFG. A recipient of research grants from the EU,
NSF, USDA, and the DFG, his research has been published in the leading field
journals of environmental and regulatory economics. His research interests
are in environmental and resource economics, the economics of regulation,
and law and economics, using theory, econometrics, and experiments.

Abstract:

For theoretical (Weissing and Ostrom 1991, 1993) and empirical (Rustagi et
al. 2012) reasons, trust is expected to be lower in economic interactions in
which trustors can observe trustworthiness only through (costly) monitoring.
We examine this conjecture by investigating the impact of a (costly)
monitoring environment on trust using data from 152 subjects participating
in a binary version of the finite-horizon modified trust game. The three
treatment conditions vary observability and the cost of monitoring. We find
that trustors do not trust less, even when trustworthiness can only be
observed deliberately and at a cost. When monitoring is costly, the same
level of trust is supported by a significantly reduced amount of information
on trustworthiness, acquired by trustors mainly in early stages of the
repeat interaction. As a result, the efficiency of economic interactions is
not lower when trustworthiness is costly to observe. (JEL C92, C72, D03,
D80)


It will take place on: 

Thursday, November 06, 2014 3pm (ct.)
Quartier Stadtmitte
Friedrichstr. 191
10117 Berlin
4th floor, room 4088
Map and room location
http://www.iri-thesys.org/contact
http://www.iri-thesys.org/directions_quartier191/at_download/file 


The mission of The Berlin Workshop in Institutional Analysis of
Social-Ecological Systems (WINS) is to advance communication between
academic communities (economists, political scientists, geographers,
sociologists, anthropologists, psychologists, and others) that study the
role of institutions and governance structures in social-ecological systems
and their transformation. It is an open platform for both advanced and young
scholars to work symbiotically. WINS is based at Humboldt University's
Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment
Systems (IRI THESys). The overarching scholarly aim is to facilitate the
accumulation of knowledge and the development of new, interdisciplinary and
problem-oriented analytical theories and methods, bridging the multiplicity
of approaches that have been established over time. Integrative discourses,
interdisciplinary research and an advanced studies program will serve as
conduits towards this goal. The ultimate purpose is to strengthen policy
making through enhanced dialogue with practitioners and stakeholders. For
more information please see here: https://www.wins.hu-berlin.de/

Berlins environmental research community is among the most prolific in
Europe and the world and we want to take advantage of that. Thus, throughout
the 14 sessions of the series we will introduce the work of prominent
scholars from Research Institutes that center around Berlin. Additionally,
we have visits by scholars from other European Universities. 

WINS Seminar sessions will take place every Thursday, 3pm, during the
winter semester (except for the public holidays). 
We are looking forward to inspiring presentations and productive exchanges.

Organiser of the WINS Seminar series



Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Ihre
Ines Jeworski

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Lebenswissenschaftliche Fakultät
Albrecht Daniel Thaer-Institut für Agrar- und Gartenbauwissenschaften
Fachgebiet Ressourcenökonomie Hannoversche Str. 27
10099 Berlin
Bundesrepublik Deutschland       
Tel. 0049 (30) 2093-46365
Fax: 0049 (30) 2093- 6497
E-mail: i.jeworski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
www.resource-economics.hu-berlin.de


Ines Jeworski
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Faculty of Life Sciences 
Albrecht Daniel Thaer-Institute of Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences 
Division of Resource Economics
Hannoversche Str. 27
D-10099 Berlin
Tel. 0049 (30) 2093-46365
Fax: 0049 (30) 2093- 6497
E-mail: i.jeworski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
www.resource-economics.hu-berlin.de
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