preferences such as risk preference, and crucial beliefs about the world, such as trust. This paper provides evidence on the three …

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 …

those of the original study. We mainly observe hidden costs of control of low magnitude which lead to low-trust principal …

In this paper we test the effect of trust on the choice of child care technology. We estimate individual-level trust as …). Compared to other measures of trust, using this technique has several advantages: It makes more efficient use of information by … to trust using data from the European Social Survey, we analyze their personal, demographic, and regional determinants …

, provided that they trust political institutions. Our findings suggest that one solution to the recent electoral backlash of …

important primitives of social capital - trust and reciprocity - which can be used to explain deviations from the Nash … the behaviour of players in experimental trust and dictator games and suggest that the most informative utilization of … questionnaire about attitudes to trusting and reciprocating predict subjects' behaviour and, by comparing behaviour in Trust and …

We explore the extent to which the structure of incentives affects trust. We hypothesize that the degree to which … through either tournaments or team-based incentives. Participants engaged in a subsequent trust game in which the sender had … effects on observed trust in which participants' relative performance framed trusting behavior. …

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 …

Trust is a concept that has attracted significant attention in economic theory and research within the last two decades … claiming to measure trust, and how these different measures are related. Using nationally representative data, we test a … commonly used experimental measure of trust for robustness to a number of interferences, finding it to be mostly unsusceptible …

In recent years, many social scientists have claimed that trust plays an important role in economic and social … transactions. Despite its proposed importance, the measurement and the definition of trust seem to be not fully settled, and the … identification of the exact role of trust in economic interactions has proven to be elusive. It is still not clear whether trust is …