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 …

high growth, but based on a simple stylized model of government behavior the expectation is that mainly high trust … countries provides support for this expectation. The difference in fiscal policies depending on government trust levels may help … explaining why better governed countries have been found to have less severe business cycles. It suggests that trust and …

directly measure religious organizations ́power to shape human decision making. We employ an objective measure of voters … ́commitment to their religious organization to determine whether they are more likely to vote in line with this organizationś …

We examine whether a corruption scandal in which the incumbent is implicated undermines trust in local government. We …, and data on the level of trust expressed in local politicians drawn from a new survey conducted in late 2009. We use … matching methods to improve the identification of the effect of corruption scandals on trust, comparing municipalities affected …

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 …

also investigate other dimensions and find no differences in terms of trust, while there is evidence of some differences in …

&D investment, and derive predictions on the effects of trust and competition on suppliers' investment and buyers' procurement … automotive industry. Consistent with the model's predictions, higher levels of trust are associated with higher investment levels … - but also with more competitive procurement: trust and rents from reduced supplier competition in the procurement process …

a sign of trust and concern for the employees' well-being or as enhanced monitoring. Both interpretations can explain …