We study the intrapersonal relationship between trust and reciprocity in a laboratory experiment. Reciprocal subjects … trust significantly more than selfish ones. This finding raises questions about theories of social preferences which predict … that "fairer" players should trust less. …

whether a charitable donation increases the observing agents' trust in the donor. Our results support these hypotheses and … show that, apart from trust, responses to altruistic acts can have a rewarding or outcome-equalizing purpose. Our findings …

-buying can be sustained by an internalized norm of reciprocity. Receiving money engenders feelings of obligation. Combining … survey data on vote-buying with an experiment-based measure of reciprocity, we show that politicians target reciprocal …

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 …

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 …

respond in-kind to hostile or kind actions. Little is known, however, about: (i) the prevalence of reciprocity in the … population, (ii) individual determinants of reciprocity, (iii) the correlation between positive and negative inclinations within … inclinations, in particular in terms of positive reciprocity. However, there is substantial heterogeneity in the degree of …

-group favoritism in trust decisions. We observe choices of about 1,000 inhabitants of the city of Zurich who take part in a sequential … trust game, in which first movers can condition their investments on the residential districts of second movers. Our main … accordingly. Furthermore, we provide evidence of in-group favoritism, i.e., people trust strangers from their own district …

of the U.S. population, oversampling immigrants, to study trust, positive, and negative reciprocity between first …Trust is a crucial component of social capital. We use an experimental moonlighting game with a representative sample … trust other immigrants. Immigrants appear to be less trustworthy overall but this finding disappears when we control for …

-Economic Panel and recently introduced questions about trust, positive reciprocity, and negative reciprocity to examine the extent … willingness to trust other people influences the probability of starting a business; ii) trust, positive reciprocity, and negative … reciprocity influence the exit probability of entrepreneurs; and iii) willingness to trust and to act reciprocally influences the …