Thu, 12 May 2011
A working paper reporting the results of a “trust game” has been quoted in the ‘New York Times’ and ‘El Pais’
A working paper by Professor Daniel Zizzo, Professor Shaun Hargreaves Heap and Jonathan Tan has recently been quoted in the ‘New York Times’ http://www.nytimes.com and ‘El Pais’ www.elpais.com
The article “In Equality We Trust?” focuses on income inequality being negatively related to trust. The working paper reported results of a “trust game” in which players can transfer resources to other players in the hope that additional resources will be transferred back to them. They found that inequality among players had a corrosive effect on trusting behaviours particularly when players had specific knowledge of one another’s endowments.
The article “In Equality We Trust?” focuses on income inequality being negatively related to trust. The working paper reported results of a “trust game” in which players can transfer resources to other players in the hope that additional resources will be transferred back to them. They found that inequality among players had a corrosive effect on trusting behaviours particularly when players had specific knowledge of one another’s endowments.
