Martin Hülsen explores individual behavioral trustworthiness of and within the banking industry in Germany based on an economic experiment combined with psychological instruments. He finds that bankers have a reputation for being untrustworthy. However, his evidence also shows that the true...

Vertrauen bildet einen zentralen Handlungsmechanismus in Ökonomie, Politik und Gesellschaft. Insbesondere in Zeiten hoher Unsicherheit in Form multikontextualer Wirtschafts-, Finanz- oder Währungskrisen stellt es noch mehr als sonst ein Schlüsselelement des modernen Unternehmertums dar....

This paper reports on a set of trust games with third party punishment (TPP) where participants are either family members or friends or unrelated villagers. The experimental sessions were carried out in southern Namibia (Karas) and the bordering northern South Africa (Namaqualand). The aim was...