This paper analyses gender differences in the trust game. Our experiment implements the triadic design proposed by Cox (2004) to discriminate between transfers resulting from trust or trustworthiness and transfers resulting from altruistic preferences. We observe that women exhibit a higher...

We test in the laboratory the effect of changing the experimenter's gender in the trust game. We assume that experimental subjects seek to discover the true purpose of the experiment and this behaviour may produce a bias to confirm experimenter's expectations. The gender of the experimenter is a...

Cities have recently been affected by important changes both as regards their role in general economic growth and their spatial structure. As for the first issue, market globalisation has heightened territorial competition and cities, as places with a concentration of economic activities and...