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

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 …

of trustworthiness, could generate the non-monotonic relationship between trust and income. Highly trustworthy … evidence showing that own trustworthiness and expectations of others' trustworthiness in a trust game are strongly correlated …A vast literature has investigated the relationship between trust and aggregate economic performance. We investigate …

This Paper discovers significant differences between southern and northern Europeans in a dynamic version of the ‘trust … game’ played by Ph.D. students from different nationalities at the European University Institute. Our version of the trust … payback for a transfer received), Southerners are being punished for their own low level of trust (i.e. having a low …

senders’ behaviour in the standard trust game, but only with his trustworthiness. By using a large sample of German households … with its trustworthiness. In this paper we resolve this puzzle by recognizing that trust has two components: a belief …Several papers study the effect of trust by using the answer to the World Values Survey (WVS) question “Generally …

questions in the context of a trust game by asking participants directly about their notions of cheating. We find that: i) both … parties to a trust exchange have implicit notions of what constitutes cheating even in a context without promises or messages …; ii) these notions are not unique - the vast majority of senders would feel cheated by a negative return on their trust …

one mechanism yielding these dual patterns: false consensus. In the context of a trust game experiment, we show that … trust beliefs after several rounds of game-play. Moreover, we show that one's own type/trustworthiness can be traced back to …Trust beliefs are heterogeneous across individuals and, at the same time, persistent across generations. We investigate …

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 …

(Putnam 1993), we model the intergenerational transmission of priors about the trustworthiness of others. We show that this … transmission tends to be biased toward excessively conservative priors. As a result, societies can be trapped in a low-trust … equilibrium. In this context, a temporary shock to the return to trusting can have a permanent effect on the level of trust. We …