or market structure. We address the question how competition among suppliers of finance interacts with trust and … trustworthiness in a laboratory one-shot trust game. In order to disentangle pure effects of competition and effects of competition … coordination games with clear focal points, which leads to higher investments and trustworthiness in the trust game. Our results …

This paper analyses the hypothesis that the robust relationship between trust - as measured by the World Values Survey … results reveal that the correlation between trust and economic growth is robust in terms of statistical significance and sign … underlining the existing empirical evidence that trust matters in explaining differences in economic performance, our results also …