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The relationship between Stress, Strain and Social Capital

Gächter, Martin; Savage, David A.; Torgler, Benno - 2010

This paper analyzes the effectiveness of social capital in reducing the negative externalities associated with stress, as well as the physical and psychological strain indicators among police officers. Despite the fact that there is a large multidisciplinary literature on stress or on social...

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Guilt from Promise-Breaking and Trust in Markets for Expert Services - Theory and Experiment

Beck, Adrian; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Qiu, Jianying; … - 2010

We examine the influence of guilt and trust on the performance of credence goods markets. An expert can make a promise to a consumer first, whereupon the consumer can express her trust by paying an interaction price before the expert's provision and charging decisions. We argue that the expert's...

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Truth, trust, and sanctions: On institutional selection in sender-receiver games

Peeters, Ronald; Vorsatz, Marc; Walzl, Markus - 2011

We conduct a laboratory experiment to investigate the impact of institutions and institutional choice on truth-telling and trust in sender-receiver games. We find that in an institution with sanctioning opportunities, receivers sanction predominantly after having trusted lies. Individuals who...

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Intercultural trust. An experiment in Austria and Japan

Netzer, Robert Jiro; Sutter, Matthias - 2009

We show that the level of trust and reciprocity in an intercultural trust game experiment between Austrian and Japanese subjects differs from the results of an intracultural experiment run in the respective countries among compatriots. Austrian subjects show significantly higher levels of trust...

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On Representative Trust

Bellemare, Charles; Kröger, Sabine - 2003

Because of its relation to economic growth, there is a policy interest in mea- suring social capital and average trust as its currently most important proxy. Thereby a main focus is determining its variation across groups with different individual characteristics. In this paper we combine the...

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On Representative Trust

Bellemare, Charles; Kröger, Sabine - 2003

This paper combines an economic experiment with survey data to investigate determinants of trust and trustworthiness in the Dutch society. We contrast the inferences which can be made on the trust propensity using stated and revealed measures and we test for participation bias in our experiment....

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Aufbau von Vertrauen in Dienstleistungsinteraktionen durch Instrumente der Kommunikationspolitik - dargestellt am Beispiel der Beratung kleiner und mittlerer Unternehmen -

Enke, Margit; Greschuchna, Larissa - 2005

Veränderte Marktbedingungen stellen hohe Anforderungen an das Marketing von Dienstleistungsunternehmen. Um langfristig am Markt bestehen zu können, ist es für einen Dienstleistungsanbieter entscheidend, das Vertrauen seiner Kunden zu gewinnen. Aufbauend auf theoretischen Grundlagen werden am...

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The Puzzling Underuse of Arbitration in Post-Communism: A Law and Economics Analysis

Schönfelder, Bruno - 2005

The paper attempts to explain the failure of postcommunist traders exemplified by Balkan traders to make use of arbitration courts by means of the rational choice of forum approach offered by the law and economics movement. Conjectures about traders? behaviour derived by combining this approach...

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Confidence and the Erosion of Confidence: Economic Functions and Effects

Sell, Friedrich L. - 2004

Trust or likewise "confidence" (the term preferred in this paper) are notions which have received considerable … mean by "confidence", what the differences between optimism and confidence are and how the onset of confidence can possibly … be explained. Also, we analyze the economic effects of a lack of or the erosion of confidence. The paper intends to …

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Vertrauen: Substitut oder Komplement zu formellen Institutionen?

Sell, Friedrich L.; Wiens, Marcus - 2005

In diesem Beitrag diskutieren wir den in der Literatur heftig umstrittenen Aspekt, ob Vertrauen (Institutionen) nur ein Komplement zu formellen Institutionen (Vertrauen) sein oder diese(s) möglicherweise sogar substituieren kann (können). Wir fassen Vertrauen als spezifische, kooperative...

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