Group status, minorities and trust

Experimental Economics

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 215-244

  Tsutsui, Kei ^a   Zizzo, Daniel John ^b  

^a FRANKFURT SCHOOL OF FINANCE AND MANAGEMENT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Deference; Discrimination; Group size; Groups; Status; Trust games

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899924481     PISSN: 13864157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10683-013-9364-x     Document Type: Article

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