We conduct a field experiment to investigate employers' trust in workers.  A sample of real entrepreneurs and workers … (trust) an employee, who can in turn choose whether to exert effort (trustworthiness) in the real-effort task.  By comparing …-optimal trust.  Expectations are largely inelastic with respect to news and negative signals have a strong (downward) effect than …

Although it is well known that trust is an important component of the fulfilment of incomplete contracts, less is known …

This paper investigates whether expectations of trustworthiness and resulting acts of trust accord with an objective …

An economic experiment involving separate sessions in 24 small, tightly knit communities reveals that trust is higher …

This paper is empirical study, using new experimental data, of repeated game strategies in trust games; its goal is to … indefinitely repeated trust games we infer trigger strategies that are consistent with equilibria. In finitely repeated games we …

demonstrates that by reducing the scope for trust verification can have a negative effect on the behaviour of honest individuals … trust opportunities through the use of verification. Regulatory implications are discussed. …

`Assurance Game`. The results imply that the current traffic problem may be due to lack of assurance and trust rather than raw …

Trust responsiveness is the tendency to fulfill trust because you believe that it has been placed on you. The … experiment presented in this paper uses two simple trust games to measure directly or indirectly the robustness of trust … elicited but not transmitted, when beliefs are not elicited. Insofar as we can tell, trust responsiveness is robust to our …