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Experimenting over a Long Distance - A method to facilitate intercultural experiments

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  • Gari Walkowitz
  • Clemens Oberhammer
  • Heike Hennig-Schmidt

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We report a new method for Experimenting over a Long Distance (ELD)allowing to simultaneously run decentralized interactive experiments in geographically separated subject pools. Applying ELD to an intercultural trust experiment with participants from Argentina, China and Germany we found a striking evidence for transcontinental trust behavior. In addition to Chinese senders’ discrimination of Argentinean players no discrimination in trust and reciprocity behavior was observed. Neverthe- less, we found significantly different levels of trust and reciprocity in the different national cultures.

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Paper provided by University of Bonn, Germany in its series Bonn Econ Discussion Papers with number bgse17_2004.

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Length: 17
Date of creation: Jun 2004
Date of revision: Dec 2005
Handle: RePEc:bon:bonedp:bgse17_2004

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Keywords: interactive intercultural experiments; investment game; trust;

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Cited by:
  1. Robert Jiro Netzer & Matthias Sutter, 2009. "Intercultural trust. An experiment in Austria and Japan," Working Papers 2009-05, Faculty of Economics and Statistics, University of Innsbruck.
  2. Alvin Etang Ndip & David Fielding & Stephen Knowles, 2009. "Does trust extend beyond the village? Experimental trust and social distance in Cameroon," Working Papers 0907, University of Otago, Department of Economics, revised Jul 2009.
  3. Gari Walkowitz & Sebastian J. Goerg, 2007. "The Janus Face of Cooperation - An Intra- and Cross-Cultural Review," Bonn Econ Discussion Papers bgse5_2007, University of Bonn, Germany.

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