relevance of strategic hiring is shown using the same empirical strategy. At the same time, the test is shown to be invalid if …

social preferences (such as trust and altruism) and in influencing behavior in strategic environments. Here we emphasize the … errors in strategy implementation. In our data, we show that players indeed choose less lenient strategies in environments …

Trust is crucial for successful collective action. A prime example is collective commercialization of agricultural …-day training on collective commercialization. We use this variation to identify effects on intra-group trust, both direct treatment … measures of trust in leaders' competence and motives and of trust in members we find that participating in the training …

social capital as measured by interpersonal and institutional trust in post-reunification Germany. We estimate the economic … costs of spying by applying a second identification strategy that accounts for county fixed effects. We find that a higher …

children through purposeful investments. We exploit information on the risk and trust attitudes of parents and their children … respect to risk and trust attitudes and thus transmit their own attitudes more strongly. The results are robust to including …

This survey reviews the recent research on trust, institutions and growth. It discusses the various measures of trust … and documents the substantial heterogeneity of trust across space and time. The conceptual mechanisms and the methods … employed to identify the causal impact of trust on economic performance are reviewed. We document the mechanisms of …