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According to a growing body of literature in economics, people have heterogeneous other-regarding preferences. These preferences affect the extent to which they behave in favor or against others in general (Fehr and Schmidt 2006) and their trustworthiness behavior in particular (Cox 2004; Ashraf, Bohnet, and Piankov 2006). If we want to measure and understand behavioral trustworthiness among bankers, we first need to understand the nature and origins of other-regarding behavior.
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Hülsen, M. (2018). Background: the economics of other-regarding behavior. In: An Experimental Economic Analysis of Banker Behavior . Schriften zum europäischen Management. Springer Gabler, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-22808-8_3
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