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Browsing Department of Economics (ECO) by Subject "Trust"
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Title:Cooperation hidden frontiers : the behavioral foundations of the Italian north-south divide
Author(s):BIGONI, Maria; BORTOLOTTI, Stefania; CASARI, Marco; GAMBETTA, Diego; PANCOTTO, FrancescaDate:2013Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:Socio-economic performance differs not only across countries but within countries too and can persist even after religion, language, and formal institutions are long shared. One interpretation of these disparities is that ...
Title:Money is an Experience Good: Competition and Trust in the Private Provision of Money
Author(s):MARIMON, Ramon; NICOLINI, Juan Pablo; TELES, PedroDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:We study the interplay between competition and trust as efficiency-enhancingmechanims in the private provision of money. With commitment, trust is automatically achieved and competition ensures efficiency. Without commitment, ...
Title:Money is an Experience Good: Competition and Trust in the Private Provision of Money
Author(s):MARIMON, Ramon; NICOLINI, Juan Pablo; TELES, PedroDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:We study the interplay between competition and trust as efficiency-enhancing mechanisms in the private provision of money. With commitment, trust is automatically achieved and competition ensures efficiency. Without ...
Title:Similarities and Differences When Building Trust: The Role of Cultures
Author(s):BORNHORST, Fabian; ICHINO, Andrea; KIRCHKAMP, Oliver; SCHLAG, Karl H.; WINTER, EyalDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:We run an experiment in which students of different European nationalities are matched in groups of five and repeatedly choose with whom within their group they want to play a trust game. Participants observe of each other ...
Title:The Right Amount of Trust
Author(s):BUTLER, Jeffrey V.; GIULIANO, Paola; GUISO, LuigiDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:A vast literature has investigated the relationship between trust and aggregate economic performance. We investigate the relationship between individual trust and individual economic performance. We find that individual ...
Title:Alfred Marshall lecture: social capital as good culture
Author(s):GUISO, Luigi; SAPIENZA, Paolo; ZINGALES, LuigiDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:To explain the extremely long-term persistence (more than 500 years) of positive historical experiences of cooperation (Putnam 1993), we model the intergenerational transmission of priors about the trustworthiness of others. ...
Title:Strategic information transmission
Author(s):SCHANZ, Jochen FriedrichDate:2005Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD theses