(ETUC) over the last fifteen years. Firstly, the author shows that this strategy was born in the wake of the Viking and … objectives pursued by the ETUC's judicial strategy, as well as the limits of this strategy before the Court of Justice of the …

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 …