Social identity and trust-An experimental investigation

Journal of Socio-Economics

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1293-1308

  Güth, Werner ^a   Levati, M Vittoria ^a,c   Ploner, Matteo ^b  

^a Department of Archaeology   (Germany)

^b SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Experiment; Group identity; Investment game; Trust

Indexed keywords

EID: 44349125685     PISSN: 10535357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2006.12.080     Document Type: Article

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