Browsing ECO Working Papers by Subject "trust"

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Browsing ECO Working Papers by Subject "trust"

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    Title: The Signalling Power of Sanctions in Collective Action Problems  Author(s): VAN DER WEELE, Joel Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO Abstract: We present a model of collective action in a heterogenous population of egoists and conditional cooperators. Each player is uncertain about the cooperative inclinations of the other player. A government or principal who ...
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    Title: Social Capital as Good Culture  Author(s): GUISO, Luigi; SAPIENZA, Paola; ZINGALES, Luigi Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO Abstract: 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 ...