Cultivating Trust: Norms, Institutions and the Implications of Scale

Economic Journal

Volumn 121, Issue 555, 2011, Pages 1097-1129

  Bidner, Chris ^a   Francois, Patrick ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC CONDITIONS; PREDICTION; VULNERABILITY;

EID: 80053057711     PISSN: 00130133     EISSN: 14680297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2010.02398.x     Document Type: Article

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