Combining economic, social-psychological and sociological approaches trust, this book provides a general theoretical framework to explain conditional and unconditional trust; it also presents an experimental test of the corresponding integrative model and its predictions. Broadly, it aims at...

In dieser Studie gehe ich aus kommunikationswissenschaftlicher Perspektive der Frage nach, wie sich Vertrauen in Online-Bewertungen gestaltet. Um diese Frage zu beantworten, führe ich zunächst eine umfangreiche Literaturstudie zu den bisherigen empirischen Befunden zu Vertrauen in...

We investigate the long-run effects of government surveillance on civic capital and economic performance, studying the case of the Stasi in East Germany. Exploiting regional variation in the number of spies and administrative features of the system, we combine a border discontinuity design with...