network that connects them. We find that information supports cooperation by increasing trust between players, and obtain the …Community enforcement is an important device for sustaining efficiency in some repeated games of cooperation. We … investigate cooperation when information about players' reputations spreads to their future partners through links in a social …

, corporate accountability, legal liability, reputation, and culture. We use the Trust Triangle to summarize recent developments …We propose a construct, the Trust Triangle, that highlights three primary mechanisms that provide ex post … accountability for opportunistic behavior and motivate ex ante trust in economic relationships. The mechanisms are: (i) a society …

whether to trust others. These social interactions effects may arise from exogenous-environmental characteristics or from … endogenous effects that make people conform to the particular norm or culture of trust prevailing in a country. Though the … of endogenous social interactions effects in trust decisions because only they could explain the within …

-colonial state show significantly higher levels of trust in current day institutions. …

The paper extends Breggren et al. (2008, EE) on "trust and growth: a shaky relationship" by incorporating recent … developments in the trust-growth literature and using a robust methodological underpinning that accounts for the presence of … documented positive trust-growth nexus is broadly confirmed. Secondly, when initial levels of growth come into play in …

The paper extends Breggren et al. (2008, EE) on "trust and growth: a shaky relationship" by incorporating recent … developments in the trust-growth literature and using a robust methodological underpinning that accounts for the presence of … documented positive trust-growth nexus is broadly confirmed. Second, when initial levels of growth come into play in determining …

: generalized trust, helpfulness, and fairness, which can be combined into an aggregated variable, called 'cooperation capital'. The …‑component cooperation capital explains economic growth better than generalized trust exclusively. The estimated model suggests that an …This research is an attempt to assess the impact of trust, helpfulness, and fairness on economic growth in Europe. The …