Measuring people's trust

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 172, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 749-769

  Ermisch, John ^a   Gambetta, Diego ^b   Laurie, Heather ^a   Siedler, Thomas ^a,c   Noah Uhrig, S C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b NUFFIELD COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^c DIW BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Experiment; Risk; Trust; Trust game; Trustworthiness

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349478710     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2009.00591.x     Document Type: Article

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