set of measures of personality traits, namely locus of control, reciprocity and all basic items from the Five Factor …

their beliefs when interacting with their friend. When interacting with an ex-ante unknown agent instead, the decision to …

-Economic Panel and recently introduced questions about trust, positive reciprocity, and negative reciprocity to examine the extent … willingness to trust other people influences the probability of starting a business; ii) trust, positive reciprocity, and negative … reciprocity influence the exit probability of entrepreneurs; and iii) willingness to trust and to act reciprocally influences the …

In this paper we study the economic effects of risk attitudes, time preferences, trust and reciprocity while we compare … the two groups mainly in terms of risk attitudes and positive reciprocity. Second generation migrants have a significantly … higher willingness to take risks and they are less likely to have a low amount of positive reciprocity when compared to …

other agents' behavior. Recent experimental studies as well as surveys have asked participants to state their beliefs … explicitly, but little is known about the causal relation between beliefs and other behavioral variables. This paper discusses … allows detecting causal links from beliefs to actions under plausible assumptions. The IV estimates indicate a significant …