that are new to the social capital literature, we identify social trust, social relationships, and social networks as …

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, and a gift performs significantly …

We examine the influence of social distance on levels of trust and reciprocity in China. Social distance, reflected in … in two financially salient trust games to measure behavior, one with an anonymous classmate and the other with an … behavior were statistically consistent. The results together corroborated the hypothesized negative relationship between trust …

behavior. Some participants participated in two financially salient trust games to measure behavior, one with a classmate and … indistinguishable. The results together corroborated the expected negative relationship between trust and social distance. However …, reciprocity, while proportional to trust, was not responsive to social distance. …

While most of the previous literature interprets trust as an action, we adopt a view that trust is represented by a …. In this paper we propose and test a conjecture that economic agents use trust strategically. That is, the agents have … incentives to inflate the perceived level of trust (the signal) in order to induce a more favorable outcome for themselves. In …

This paper reports an experiment evaluating the effect of gift giving on building trust in a relationship. We have … giving leads to higher trust and efficiency but at the same time is probably not stable. …

This paper reports on an experiment studying the effectiveness of two types of mechanisms for promoting trust … enhance trust in comparison to the standard investment game. However, we find that the pecuniary mechanism performs …