Nguyen, Quang; Villeval, Marie Claire; Xu, Hui - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We study the influence of risk and time preferences on trust and trustworthiness by conducting a field experiment in …. We find that while probability sensitivity or risk aversion do not affect trust, loss aversion influences trust … indirectly by lowering the expectations of return. Also, more risk averse and less present biased participants are found to be …