This paper investigates how group membership and competition among trustors interact with trust and trustworthiness in … competition leads to a decrease in trustworthiness, especially among partners. We argue that once competition comes into play …

quality - but also with more competition among suppliers. Both associations hold only for parts involving comparatively … relationships involving higher trust, buyers are able to induce higher investment and more intense competition among suppliers - but …

reputation building in bilateral bargaining, while buyer competition effectively masks this concern and robustly yields …

trustworthiness in anonymous transactions. Market competition creates incentives that arguably may enhance or curb the effectiveness … of these systems. We investigate how different forms of market competition and social reputation networks interact in a … series of laboratory online markets, where sellers face a moral hazard. We find that competition in strangers networks (where …

equilibrium unemployment. The relationship between the long-run unemployment and the intensity of product market competition is …

&D investment, and derive predictions on the effects of trust and competition on suppliers' investment and buyers' procurement … - but also with more competitive procurement: trust and rents from reduced supplier competition in the procurement process …