Honesty toward strangers can be considered an important norm of any given society.
However, despite burgeoning interest in honesty among experimenters, the heterogeneous …

This book explains why moral beliefs can and likely do play an important role in the
development and operation of market economies. It shows why the maximization of general …

Digitization has enabled “testing-the-waters” in entrepreneurial finance whereby investors
can make nonbinding commitments in equity crowdfunding prior to an actual campaign to …

Social capital is a concept that attempts to describe the quantity and quality of social
interactions in a community. This study explores the relationship between individual …

We analyze how the work ethic of managers impacts a firm's employment contracts,
riskiness, growth potential, and organizational structure. Flat contracts are optimal for …

The extent to which a tourist trusts a holiday destination has become an important factor
when it comes to thinking about where to travel to. However, no previous studies measuring …

Classical agency theory argues that economic incentives can have a strong impact on
opportunistic reporting behavior. On the other hand, behavioral literature suggests that …

Economics has always prided itself on having a unifying theoretical framework based on
rational choice theory. However, data from controlled experiments, which often provide …

Public choice research has revealed a variety of political dilemmas associated with
governance that tend to make good governance unlikely. This paper suggests that the good …

The organisational factors associated with employee dishonest behaviour are understudied
because dishonesty is sensitive topic and organisations are not willing to reveal …