designs may unintentionally affect reciprocity. We manipulate the investor’s action space in two versions of the “trust game … investment but limit investors’ demonstrability of intended trust. As a result, “all-in” investors are less generously …

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 examine experimentally the impact of communication on trust and cooperation. Our design admits observation of …

For the trust game, recent models of belief-dependent motivations make opposite predictions regarding the correlation …

other hand, efficiency concerns and an aversion against violating trust seem to be far less important motivations. We also …

Many economic interactions rely on trust, which is sometimes violated. The fallout from business fraud and other … malfeasance shows serious economic consequences of trust violations. Simple rules mandating minimum standards are attractive … because they prevent the most egregious trust violations. However, such rules may undermine more trusting and reciprocal …

definitions of trust and trustworthiness based on revealed willingness to accept vulnerability and the response to it. …

, the ultimatum game and the trust game. All subjects in a session earn the same participation fee, but their choices affect … waiting time. In the trust game, there is substantial trust and reciprocity. Overall, social preferences are evident in time … allocation decisions. Received laboratory results from dictator, ultimatum, and trust games are robust to the change in reward …

self-interested players would not voluntarily engage in any transaction, unless they expect trust and reciprocity to play a …