Decomposing trust and trustworthiness

Experimental Economics

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 193-208

  Ashraf, Nava ^a   Bohnet, Iris ^b   Piankov, Nikita ^c  

^a HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ANALYSIS GROUP   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross cultural experiments; Reciprocity; Social preferences; Trust

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746120763     PISSN: 13864157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10683-006-9122-4     Document Type: Article

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