Engle-Warnick, Jim; Slonim, Robert L. - Economics Group, Nuffield College, University of Oxford - 2001
Although it is well known that trust is an important component of the fulfilment of incomplete contracts, less is known … regarding how robust it is to past experiences. We present an experiment in which trust is required for transactions to occur … trust is surprisingly robust in the long-term. We argue that trust, through fragile in one way, is in another way more …