We explore the determinants and effects of trust relationships between upstream suppliers and downstream producers … different measures of supplier-buyertrust, tha thigher levels of trust mitigate relationship-specific underinvestment in a … classical hold-up situation. Moreover, contrary to the extant literature, we show that higher levels of supplier's trust are …

Experimental evidence reveals that there is a strong willingness to trust and to act in both positively and negatively … buyers, as well as needing to trust others and reciprocate with their network. We base our analysis on the German Socio …-Economic Panel and recently introduced questions about trust, positive reciprocity, and negative reciprocity to examine the extent …

social capital as measured by interpersonal and institutional trust in post-reunification Germany. We estimate the economic …

children through purposeful investments. We exploit information on the risk and trust attitudes of parents and their children … respect to risk and trust attitudes and thus transmit their own attitudes more strongly. The results are robust to including …

This paper examines the effect of exposure to a culture of easier divorce as a minor on generalized trust using the … unilateral divorce reforms across the US. According to the results, the divorce revolution seems to have had some effect on trust … effects for women with an additional year of exposure being associated with a 4 percentage point lower generalized trust in …

the power of our approach with the analysis of trust and trustworthiness in Germany by combining representative survey … elicit people's trust correlate well with behaviorally exhibited trust in the experiment. People above the age of 55, highly … favoring the Social Democratic Party or the Christian Democratic Party exhibit more trust. People above the age of 65 and those …

Can a major shock in childhood permanently shape trust? We consider a hunger episode in Germany after WWII and … regional and temporal variation. We correlate hunger exposure with measures of trust using data from a nationally … significantly lower levels of trust as adults. This finding highlights that early-life experiences can have long-term effects in …

Existing studies of trust formation in U.S. metropolitan areas have found that trust is lower when there is more income … groups (racial income inequality). I find that greater racial income inequality reduces trust. Also, racial fragmentation is … no longer a significant determinant of trust once racial income inequality is accounted for. I also show that racial …