This paper reports an experiment evaluating the effect of gift giving on building trust. We have nested our …

Should one use words or money to foster trust of the other party if no means of enforcing trustworthiness are available …? This paper reports an experiment studying the effectiveness of two types of mechanisms for promoting trust: a costly gift … game. Our data provide evidence that while both stand-alone mechanisms enhance trust, a gift performs significantly worse …

trust and reciprocity in a population where agents play both roles (trustor and trustee). Our experiment consists on three … does not affect the average trust in the population. Trust is significantly higher only when players can build up a … reputation in both roles. We show that the increase in trust is mainly linked to the formation of mutual trust …

probabilities” in order to break the trust relationship. Investors do not alter their behavior in a significant way, at least not … zero. In the light of the experimental findings, such trades would not provide a favorable environment for building trust. …