THE DEVELOPMENT SOCIAL RELATIONSHIP IN OUR TIMES IMPOSE A GROWING IMPORTANCE TO 'TRUST' AS A RESOURCE BETWEEN PERSONAL … REDUCING OF SOCIAL COMPLEXITY IN OUR NEAPOLITAN REALITY, WE ASSUME THAT IS BETTER TO 'RELIANCE' RATHER THAN TO TRUST. FOR THE …

consumer trust orientations and the frequentation of the different sales channels where organic food can be found. The results … of this study conducted in France and Germany show that consumers in organic food stores put trust in their store but are … neither the heaviest nor the most trusting consumers. Consumers in hypermarkets or supermarkets do not really trust the store …

We study the value of commitment in contests and tournaments when there are costs for the follower to observe the … itself. We show that this distinction matters significantly: When observation is costly, the value of commitment vanishes … tournaments, the value of commitment is preserved completely, provided that the observation costs are sufficiently small. …

. While temptation is commonly understood to give rise to a demand for commitment, it is shown that `temptation by future …

as a primitive and hypothesize that temptation creates a preference for commitment. This paper argues that temptation may … in fact create the absence of a preference for commitment, and that the primitive may not be empirically meaningful since …

-announced schedule de facto acts as a commitment not to adjust in intermediate periods. We find that at short horizons gains from such … commitment outweigh welfare costs of central bank's inaction. Second, we solve for the optimal frequency of policy adjustment and …