Our trust in competition policy is based on faith in markets. When markets are oligopolies, already classical … economists’ trust in competition busted: Oligopolies carry the seeds of collusion. To develop, collusion needs trust between … firms. But new leniency programmes are designed to bust that trust. I discuss when trust busters are likely to succeed and …

common language is used, and an inferential step where the receiver may either trust the message's literal meaning or …

neighbors in the social network, can exert effort to manipulate the trust of others, and update their opinions about some common …. We show that manipulation can modify the trust structure and lead to a connected society. Manipulation fosters opinion …

Existing studies of trust formation in U.S. metropolitan areas have found that trust is lower when there is more income … groups (racial income inequality). I find that greater racial income inequality reduces trust. Also, racial fragmentation is … no longer a significant determinant of trust once racial income inequality is accounted for. I also show that racial …

Venezuelans and improved some attitudes, but only the game significantly increased self-reported trust. …

trust in the performance of government agencies. We developed an original survey taken during the first COVID-19 wave that … includes randomized experiments with pandemic-related treatments. We document that individual-level trust in coworkers, other …-sharing, and policy attitudes, such as openness to technological innovations in public service delivery. Trust is more strongly …

online messages and the decline in political trust around the world. To evaluate this claim causally, we implement a variant … of the well-known trust game in a survey experiment with 4,800 respondents in Brazil and Mexico. Our design allows to … test the effect of social media on trust and trustworthiness. Survey respondents alternate as agents (politicians) and …

Using a standard trust game, we elicit trust and reciprocity measures in a representative sample of adult players in … other Latin American countries. We find no statistically significant differences in trust levels of Uruguayans towards …