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This chapter reviews the recent debate about the role of social capital in economics. We argue that all the difficulties this concept has encountered in economics are due to a vague and excessively broad definition. For this reason, we restrict social capital to the set of values and beliefs...
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We study experimentally the effect of expectations on trustworthiness. Most subjects respond with untrustworthy behavior if they find out that little is expected from them. This suggests that guilt aversion plays an important role in inducing trustworthiness.
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The U.S. system of security law was designed more than 70 years ago to regain investors' trust after a major financial …
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The U.S. system of security law was designed more than 70 years ago to regain investors’ trust after a major financial …
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transmission tends to be biased toward excessively conservative priors. As a result, societies can be trapped in a low-trust … equilibrium. In this context, a temporary shock to the return to trusting can have a permanent effect on the level of trust. We …
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This chapter reviews the recent debate about the role of social capital in economics. We argue that all the difficulties this concept has encountered in economics are due to a vague and excessively broad definition. For this reason, we restrict social capital to the set of values and beliefs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008468690
How much do cultural biases affect economic exchange? We try to answer this question by using the relative trust … European citizens have for citizens of other countries. First, we document that this trust is affected not only by objective … trust toward citizens of a country lead to less trade with that country, less portfolio investment, and less direct …
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We provide a new explanation to the limited stock market participation puzzle. In deciding whether to buy stocks, investors factor in the risk of being cheated. The perception of this risk is a function not only of the objective characteristics of the stock, but also of the subjective...
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Several papers study the effect of trust by using the answer to the World Values Survey (WVS) question “Generally … the level of trust. Glaeser et al. (2000) question the validity of this measure by showing that it is not correlated with … senders’ behaviour in the standard trust game, but only with his trustworthiness. By using a large sample of German households …
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