Broadly speaking, economic experiments and surveys have found trust to be much lower in Africa than in industrialized … countries. We analyze new experimental and survey results from rural Cameroon, where the average level of trust appears to be … Saving and Credit Associations (ROSCAs) in the area: membership of a common ROSCA is one of the most important factors …

trust, an aspect of social capital, between domestic Australian students of non-Asian origin and international students of … Asian origin. To measure the degree of trust and patterns of discrimination between these groups, the Berg et al. (1995 …) trust game and a series of control games were used in framework where each participant played each game against several …

Reciprocity in feedback giving distorts the production and content of reputation information in a market, hampering … trust and trade efficiency. Guided by feedback patterns observed on eBay and other platforms, we run laboratory experiments … to investigate how reciprocity can be managed by changes in the way feedback information flows through the system …

definitions of trust and trustworthiness based on revealed willingness to accept vulnerability and the response to it. …

grossed-up investments proposed by their agents in a modified trust game. We also analyze the changes in the surplus … associated with the introduction of empowerment and the resulting increase in trust by principals. Using probit analysis, we find … that the trust displayed by the principal and the trustworthiness of the agent are statistically significant variables in …

trust and reciprocity, departing from pure self-interest in the understanding of "homo economicus", begins the discussion … of theory and experiments that have identified trust and reciprocity in economics and human behavior. … understanding of the economics of trust, trustworthiness, and reciprocal behavior. A general summary presenting the evolution of …

requires not only mutual trust, like simple exchange, but also a substantial degree of coordination. We examine whether players …

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to study the economic effects of risk attitudes, time preferences, trust and … reciprocity and to compare natives and second generation migrants. Design/methodology/approach – This paper is based on the IZA … and positive reciprocity. Second generation migrants have a significantly higher willingness to take risks and they are …

Previous literature has demonstrated the important role that trust plays in developing and maintaining well …-functioning societies. However, if we are to learn how to increase levels of trust in society, we must first understand why people choose to … trust others. One potential answer to this is that people view trust as normative: there is a social norm for trusting that …