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We investigate the effect of an EU-wide consumer protection regulation on consumer trust as well as consumer behavior … with multiple time periods. We find a significant relationship between the introduction of the UCPD and consumer trust and …
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Can a major shock in childhood permanently shape trust? We consider a hunger episode in Germany after WWII and … regional and temporal variation. We correlate hunger exposure with measures of trust using data from a nationally … significantly lower levels of trust as adults. This finding highlights that early-life experiences can have long-term effects in …
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By examining discrepancies between officially reported GDP growth figures and the actual economic growth implied by satellite-based night time light (NTL) density, we investigate whether democracies manipulate officially reported GDP figures, and if so, whether such manipulation pays political...
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-behaved statistical properties, and we show that ethnic stratification is empirically related to low levels of trust in other people and …
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a sign of trust and concern for the employees' well-being or as enhanced monitoring. Both interpretations can explain …
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While trust and trustworthiness provide a fundamental foundation for human relationships, little is known about how … the World Values Survey to address a potential connection between trust and age. In this chapter, we will mainly focus on … trusting and trustworthy behavior elicited with the use of the seminal trust game (Berg et al., 1995) and with games …
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We investigate whether there is a link between conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion. We use a public goods game to classify subjects by type of contribution preference and by belief about the contributions of others; and we measure betrayal aversion for different categories of subject....
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against low reciprocity to the standard trust game. We compare two different mechanisms, the private (purchase) and the social …
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