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The economic preferences of cooperative managers
Alves, Guillermo; Blanchard, Pablo; Burdín, Gabriel; … - 2019
conventional private firms and public sector organizations. However, little is known about managers' behavioural profile in … noninvestor-owned firms. This paper aims to fill this gap by providing a comprehensive behavioural characterization of managers …, and trust from 196 Uruguayan managers (half of them employed in worker cooperatives) and 92 first-year undergraduate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012005588
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Confidence in public institutions and the run up to the October 2019 uprising in Lebanon
Fakih, Ali; Makdissi, Paul; Marrouch, Walid; Tabri, Rami V. - 2020
dynamics of trust in public institutions in Lebanon. It finds strong evidence that confidence in most public institutions has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012198992
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Confidence in knowledge or confidence in the ability to learn : an experiment on the causal effects of beliefs on motivation
Fischer, Mira; Sliwka, Dirk - 2018
confidence in the ability to learn raises incentives, while confidence in the level of human capital lowers incentives for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011798132
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Does democracy foster trust?
Rainer, Helmut (contributor); Siedler, Thomas (contributor) - 2006
The level of trust inherent in a society is important for a wide range of microeconomic and macroeconomic outcomes. This paper investigates how individuals' attitudes toward social and institutional trust are shaped by the political regime in which they live. The German reunification is a unique...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003328070
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Family ties and political participation
Alesina, Alberto; Giuliano, Paola - 2009
We establish an inverse relationship between family ties, generalized trust and political participation. The more individuals rely on the family as a provider of services, insurance, transfer of resources, the lower is civic engagement and political participation. The latter, together with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003832188
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On the economics and biology of trust
Fehr, Ernst (contributor) - 2008
In recent years, many social scientists have claimed that trust plays an important role in economic and social transactions. Despite its proposed importance, the measurement and the definition of trust seem to be not fully settled, and the identification of the exact role of trust in economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793375
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The right amount of trust
Butler, Jeffrey; Giuliano, Paola; Guiso, Luigi - 2009
A vast literature has investigated the relationship between trust and aggregate economic performance. We investigate the relationship between individual trust and individual economic performance. We find that individual income is hump-shaped in a measure of intensity of trust beliefs available...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003898121
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The intergenerational transmission of risk and trust attitudes
Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - 2006
We investigate whether two crucial determinants of economic decision making willingness to take risks and willingness to trust other people are transmitted from parents to children. Our evidence is based on survey questions that ask about these attitudes directly, and are good measures in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003481849
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Trust as a signal of a social norm and the hidden costs of incentive schemes
Sliwka, Dirk (contributor) - 2006
An explanation for motivation crowding-out phenomena is developed in a social preferences framework. Besides selfish and fair or altruistic types a third type of agents is introduced: These 'conformists' have social preferences if they believe that sufficiently many of the others do too. When...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003467232
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Immigrant assimilation, trust and social capital
Cox, James C.; Orman, Wafa Hakim - 2010
Trust is a crucial component of social capital. We use an experimental moonlighting game with a representative sample of the U.S. population, oversampling immigrants, to study trust, positive, and negative reciprocity between first-generation immigrants and native-born Americans as a measure of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008688884