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 …

Institutions are important for proper economic performance, but are replaceable by trust or other social norms. We show … that when proper institutions and trust are missing, integrity of the individuals can replace them. We construct a model of …) trust, or (3) integrity, foster economic growth. We construct data of economic performance of social groups in Lebanon …

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 …

We establish an inverse relationship between family ties, generalized trust and political participation. The more … political participation. The latter, together with trust, are part of what is known as social capital, therefore in this paper …

-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 …