the most suffered the biggest loss in confidence in institutions, particularly in trust in government and the financial …We document that trust in public institutions--and particularly trust in banks, business and government--has declined … over recent years. U.S. time series evidence suggests that this partly reflects the pro-cyclical nature of trust in …

elicit people’s trust correlate well with behaviourally exhibited trust in the experiment. People above the age of 65, highly … the power of our approach with the analysis of trust and trustworthiness in Germany by combining representative survey … data with representative behavioural data from a social dilemma experiment. We identify which survey questions intended to …

intermediary, parameters of the information structure (precisions of public and private information), and the level of stress …

with a low level of trust in government institutions and recognition of high and rising levels of corruption. The findings …

We run an experiment in which students of different European nationalities are matched in groups of five and repeatedly … choose with whom within their group they want to play a trust game. Participants observe of each other age, gender …, nationality and number of siblings. The region of origin, "North" or "South" is a major determinant of success in the experiment …

implement a control strategy, which consists of low effort discretion and little or no rent-sharing, or they implement a trust … control strategy prevails, while the possibility of screening renders the trust strategy profitable. The introduction of … competition substantially fosters the trust strategy, reduces market segmentation, and leads to large welfare gains for both …

A vast literature has investigated the relationship between trust and aggregate economic performance. We investigate … the relationship between individual trust and individual economic performance. We find that individual income is hump …-shaped in a measure of intensity of trust beliefs available in the European Social Survey. We show that heterogeneity of trust …