Since the financial crisis, central banks have stressed the role of trust and communication in connection with their … effectiveness of monetary policy. Assessing how much the general public knows about and trust in central banks and how these factors …' objectives. Knowledge of the ECB's and the Bundesbank's goals act as significant drivers of trust in these institutions, however …

&D investment, and derive predictions on the effects of trust and competition on suppliers' investment and buyers' procurement … automotive industry. Consistent with the model's predictions, higher levels of trust are associated with higher investment levels … - but also with more competitive procurement: trust and rents from reduced supplier competition in the procurement process …

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

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 …

attempts to extend this view by analysing the role of informal institutions (trust) in developing relation-specific skills. By … multinational automotive supplier in its facilities in Japan and Germany. The results show that the influence of trust plays a role …

This paper finds evidence that more democratic political institutions increase trust. Second generation immigrants with … country, those whose father was born in a more democratic country express higher trust than those whose father was born in a …