Otálvaro-Ramírez, Susana; Scartascini, Carlos G.; … - 2025
Transparency initiatives are well-known tools to foster trust and empower citizens. To explain why some governments … mayor made a set of post-electoral promises. In a setting with relatively high trust priors, our results show that these …, not words, and have, on average, lower initial trust. The treatment effects are entirely through those vaguely familiar …