We present the first randomized survey experiment in the context of tax compliance to assess the role of social norms … and reciprocity for intrinsic tax morale. We find that participants in a social-norm treatment have lower tax morale … relative to a control group while participants in a reciprocity treatment have significantly higher tax morale than those in …

Institutions are important for proper economic performance, but are replaceable by trust or other social norms. We show … that when proper institutions and trust are missing, integrity of the individuals can replace them. We construct a model of …) trust, or (3) integrity, foster economic growth. We construct data of economic performance of social groups in Lebanon …

and social norms, and trust. In a preregistered online experiment (n = 1,038), we find that biased institutions reduce … compared to no enforcement. We also find that social heterogeneity lowers average trust and induces ingroup favouritism in … trust. Finally, we find consistent evidence of peer effects: higher levels of peer compliance raise future compliance and …

of social norms and their interplay with weak punishment in the context of a trust game. Across six conditions, we … punishment nor empirical/normative information increase prosocial, reciprocal behavior. We instead find that reciprocity …

economy may be trapped in a locally stable high-corruption, high-slavery equilibrium and major changes in government policies …

a laboratory one-shot trust game. To analyze these effects, we apply a 2x2 design. We induce group membership by letting …This paper investigates how group membership and competition among trustors interact with trust and trustworthiness in … reduces reciprocity. …