We explore the determinants and effects of trust relationships between upstream suppliers and downstream producers … different measures of supplier-buyertrust, tha thigher levels of trust mitigate relationship-specific underinvestment in a … classical hold-up situation. Moreover, contrary to the extant literature, we show that higher levels of supplier's trust are …

Experimental evidence reveals that there is a strong willingness to trust and to act in both positively and negatively … buyers, as well as needing to trust others and reciprocate with their network. We base our analysis on the German Socio …-Economic Panel and recently introduced questions about trust, positive reciprocity, and negative reciprocity to examine the extent …

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

' Union, Women's Union, etc.) and other voluntary organizations, trust, and the significance of family ties in economic … Communist Party membership, trust and access to informal insurance. …

We show that the standard trust question routinely used in social capital research is importantly related to … others cooperation. We find that the standard trust question is a proxy for cooperation preferences rather than beliefs about … others cooperation. Moreover, we show that the fairness question , a recently proposed alternative to the standard trust …

paper, Knack and Keefer (1997) assess the effect of trust on growth. This paper analyses the robustness of their results … the relationship between trust and growth in terms of both the size and the significance of the estimated effect, is … highly dependent on the set of conditioning variables. An answer to the question whether there is an economic payoff of trust …

children through purposeful investments. We exploit information on the risk and trust attitudes of parents and their children … respect to risk and trust attitudes and thus transmit their own attitudes more strongly. The results are robust to including …