Similarities and differences when building trust: the role of cultures

被引:38
作者
Bornhorst, Fabian [6 ]
Ichino, Andrea [4 ,5 ]
Kirchkamp, Oliver [3 ]
Schlag, Karl H. [1 ]
Winter, Eyal [2 ]
机构
[1] Univ Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
[2] Hebrew Univ Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
[3] Univ Jena, Jena, Germany
[4] Univ Bologna, CEPR, CESifo, Bologna, Italy
[5] Univ Bologna, IZA, Bologna, Italy
[6] European Univ Inst, Florence, Italy
关键词
Trust; Trustworthiness; European regions; Experiments; TRUSTWORTHINESS; DISCRIMINATION; RECIPROCITY; REPUTATION; SOCIETY;
D O I
10.1007/s10683-010-9240-x
中图分类号
F [经济];
学科分类号
02 ;
摘要
We run an experiment in which students of different European nationalities are matched in groups of five and repeatedly choose with whom within their group they want to play a trust game. Participants observe of each other age, gender, nationality and number of siblings. The region of origin, "North" or "South" is a major determinant of success in the experiment. Participants tend to trust those they trusted before and who trusted them. We do not find evidence of regional discrimination per se. It is only the underlying and significant differences in behavior that translate through repeated interactions into differences in payoffs between the two regions.
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