Reciprocity is one of the main basic social relations that constitute societies. It consists of being favourable to … rationales: (1) balance (comparison, matching), often related to equality and fairness, or to the desire to avoid moral … fact proper reciprocity). Reciprocity extends to important cases of aids inducing aids that are not strictly reciprocal. It …

systematically refutes the self-interest hypothesis and suggests that many people are strongly motivated by concerns for fairness and … reciprocity. Moreover, several theoretical papers have been written showing that the observed phenomena can be explained in a … insights into the nature of preferences and into the relative performance of competing theories of fairness. The purpose of …

an extreme form of altruism. Actual motivations for support of social transfers certainly lay somewhere in between, i ….e., a mix of well-understood selfishness and partial altruism. This explains why these systems can redistribute more than … theories, such as inequality-averse social welfare functions or fairness criteria. It is shown how both approaches can be …

Trust is a key dimension in the principal-agent relationship and it has been studied extensively. However, the dynamics … motivation of trust and it proposes a theoretical model of trust evolution that is based on the notion of ‘trust response’ and … ‘trust spiral’. We then specifically focus on trust within the lending relationship between banks and small businesses, and …