Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/163018 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
CeDEx Discussion Paper Series No. 2016-17
Publisher: 
The University of Nottingham, Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics (CeDEx), Nottingham
Abstract: 
The 'grammar of trust' is one of the most explored loci in behavioural and experimental economics. This experimental study aims at contributing to the understanding of new dimensions of trust by exploring how risky trust may foster a trustee's behavioural change. It investigates trustee's behaviour when the intentional trustor's risk is both manifestly salient and dependent upon the trustee's revealed type, namely trustworthy or untrustworthy. The results support the transformative nature of risky trust, which generates more trustworthy and reciprocal behaviour in untrustworthy people.
Subjects: 
experiment
gift-exchange game
organization
trust
vulnerability
JEL: 
C72
C92
D01
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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