This paper analyzes the relations between social capital, institutions and trust.These concepts are full of ambiguity … and confusion.This paper attempts to dissolve some of the confusion, by distinguishing trust and control, and analyzing … institutional and relational conditions of trust.It presents a tool for the analysis of the foundations of trust and a diagnosis of …

dictator game, the ultimatum game and the trust game. All subjects in a session earn the same participation fee, but their … split of the waiting time. In the trust game, there is substantial trust and reciprocity. Overall, social preferences are … evident in time allocation decisions. Received laboratory results from dictator, ultimatum, and trust games are robust to the …

In this paper, we address the concept of trust by combining (i) the self-reported trust and belief in trustworthiness …' distributional preferences, (iii) strategies submitted in the trust game in both roles of the game, and (iv) subjects' beliefs about … scoring rule.We show that trust can be expressed as a belief in positive reciprocity of the trustee, and answers to general …