Showing posts with label trust. Show all posts
Showing posts with label trust. Show all posts
Friday, January 22, 2021

Mike Luca on social media bans

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  Mike Luca writes, in Wired, about social media bans as part of their design. Social Media Bans Are Really, Actually, Shockingly Common--B...
Monday, March 4, 2019

Tuskegee and transplantation

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Here's a complex story from the Chicago Tribune, that conveys just some of the complicated ways that many African Americans relate to t...
Thursday, September 22, 2016

Reputation in online marketplaces

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Two recent NBER papers tell us about trust, quality, and reputation in online marketplaces. BUYING REPUTATION AS A SIGNAL OF QUALITY: EV...
Monday, July 25, 2016

Trust and crime: Reputation in the (illegal) market for sex

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Quartz has an article on how sex workers can vet new customers, in the age of the internet:  Sex workers have created the perfect method fo...
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Thursday, September 8, 2011

Instructions are part of a market's design

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Whenever my colleagues and I help design a new marketplace, we're very aware that a part of the market mechanism are the instructions th...
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Tuesday, September 1, 2009

"Girl taxi" and "Ladies Nights"

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The WSJ reports 'Girl Taxi' Service Offers Haven to Beirut's Women . "...these days the city's transport staple is fac...
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Thursday, March 5, 2009

Trust and trustworthiness: promoting and maintaining it

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Trust is essential for all sorts of transactions, and how to set up institutions to promote trust and trustworthiness in the marketplace is ...
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