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28. Februar 2020

Brown Bag Seminar Industrial Economics

Decomposing Trust

Termin

28. Februar 2020
10:30 - 11:30

Ort

Anna J. Schwartz Room
Room 5.2.010
Mohrenstraße 58
10117 Berlin

Sprecher*innen

Jana Friedrichsen

Abstract:  Trust is thought to be an important driver of economic growth and other economic outcomes. Previous studies suggest that trust may be a combination of risk attitudes, distributional preferences, betrayal aversion, and beliefs about the probability of being reciprocated. We compare the results of a binary trust game to the results of a series of control treatments that remove the effects of one of or more of these components of trust by design. This allows us to decompose variation in trust behavior into its underlying factors. Our preliminary results suggest that beliefs are the main driver of trust, and that the additional components only play a role when beliefs about reciprocity are sufficiently optimistic.

Speaker

Jana Friedrichsen, DIW Berlin & Humboldt Universität zu Berlin

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