capital - especially questions concerning generalized trust or generalized morality - are strongly and significantly …

Trust is a key factor for the well-functioning of labor markets. We experimentally study the behavior of staff at …. We discuss the implications for the design of incentives to increase trust in competitive markets like that of employment …

We study how close personal contact with minorities affects in-group and out-group trust in a field experiment in the …, we measure trust by using a trust game. Results indicate that close personal contact with minorities increases trust … towards a generic immigrant. We replicate the result that individuals coming from more ethnically diverse areas trust …

In this paper we investigate the long-run relationship between disasters and societal trust. A growing body research … social capital in general, and trust in particular. We present new cross-country evidence of another important determinant of … trust - the frequency of natural disasters. Frequent naturally occurring events such as storms require (and provide …

Guilds are social scientists ̕favoured historical example of institutions generating a social capital ̕of trust that … potential to generate the particularized and differential trust to solve market failures relating to product quality, training … the potential to abuse their trust, and the empirical findings show that they indeed manipulated their social capital of …

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 …