raises the other players' beliefs about the donors' trustworthiness in a simple trust game. Consequently, donors receive …

We establish an inverse relationship between family ties, generalized trust and political participation. The more … political participation. The latter, together with trust, are part of what is known as social capital, therefore in this paper …

the most suffered the biggest loss in confidence in institutions, particularly in trust in government and the financial …We document that trust in public institutions and particularly trust in banks, business and government has declined … over recent years. U.S. time series evidence suggests that this partly reflects the pro-cyclical nature of trust in …

We examine the influence of guilt and trust on the performance of credence goods markets. An expert can make a promise … to a consumer first, whereupon the consumer can express her trust by paying an interaction price before the expert …

trusting plays an important role. Trust is clearly associated with greater willingness to pay for insurance. Unlike in previous … work, trust in our setting is not about obligations being fulfilled. The contract is complete, simple and the possibility …

relevant events. We conduct trust game experiments where the amount sent back by the second player (trustee) is exogenously …

social capital as measured by interpersonal and institutional trust in post-reunification Germany. We estimate the economic …

an individual's local and general trust. A wide literature across economics and sociology has recognised the importance … of trust in facilitating economic growth and development and it is therefore important to investigate elements of social … organisation that encourage or inhibit the development of trust. We use fixed effects and instrumental variable regression and …