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We investigate the relationship between religion and trust. Using a questionnaire, we measure: i) general religiosity …, and; ii) the extent of religious beliefs, experience, and ritual. These are then analyzed with behaviour in a trust game …
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have been identified. However, the impact of trust on reforms has so far never been addressed. We provide theoretical … arguments why trust should influence institutional changes and test the relationship empirically. We find a significant positive … relation between trust and reforms with regard to government size, the legal system, and deregulation of private businesses and …
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We provide a new explanation to the limited stock market participation puzzle. In deciding whether to buy stocks, investors factor in the risk of being cheated. The perception of this risk is a function not only of the objective characteristics of the stock, but also of the subjective...
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The aim of this paper is threefold: we first discuss the appropriateness of the traditional trust-game-tree for the … analysis of trust relationships. Following the definition put forward by Lee et al. (2005) that confident expectations and a … willingness to be vulnerable are critical components of all definitions of trust, we relate these criteria to the subjective …
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the power of our approach with the analysis of trust and trustworthiness in Germany by combining representative survey … elicit people's trust correlate well with behaviorally exhibited trust in the experiment. People above the age of 65, highly … favoring the Social Democratic Party or the Christian Democratic Party exhibit more trust. People above the age of 65 and those …
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There is a growing interest in cross-border medical care and its comparative advantages. In addition, medical care can be defined as a local assurance good. Little research is being carried out in this field. This paper discusses the individual considerations for medical treatment offered at...
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We investigate the effects of both trust and sociability for stock market participation, the role of which has been …, Ageing and Retirement in Europe supplemented with regional information on generalized trust from the World Value Survey and … on specific trust to financial institutions from Eurobarometer. We show that trust and sociability have distinct and …
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We explore the determinants and effects of trust relationships between upstream suppliers and downstream producers … different measures of supplier-buyer trust, that higher levels of trust mitigate relationship-specific underinvestment in a … classical hold-up situation. Moreover, contrary to the extant literature, we show that higher levels of supplier's trust are …
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We present new evidence on the influence of income inequality on generalized trust. Using individual panel data from … differences among people in the bottom half of the income distribution, are associated with lower trust. The relationship between … income inequality and trust is particularly strong for people with a strong aversion against income differentials. We also …
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We conduct an extensive robustness analysis of the relationship between trust and growth for a later time period (the … results. We find that the trust-growth relationship is less robust with respect to empirical specification and to countries in … the sample than previously claimed, and that outliers affect the results. Nevertheless trust seems quite important …
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