trust and trustworthiness in anonymous transactions. Market competition creates incentives that arguably may enhance or curb … strangers networks (where market encounters are one-shot) most frequently enhances trust and trustworthiness, and always … maintain repeated exchange with each other) in promoting trust and trustworthiness if the market is sufficiently competitive …

efficiency, it also exhibits a kind of public goods problem in that, unlike in the partners market, the benefits of trust and …