Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/230974 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Papers of the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods No. 2020/19
Publisher: 
Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn
Abstract: 
The financial industry has been struggling with widespread misconduct and public mistrust. Here we argue that the lack of trust into the financial industry may stem from the selection of subjects with little, if any, trustworthiness into the financial industry. We identify the social preferences of business and economics students, and follow up on their first job placements. We find that during college, students who want to start their career in the financial industry are substantially less trustworthy. Most importantly, actual job placements several years later confirm this association. The job market in the financial industry does not screen out less trustworthy subjects. If anything the opposite seems to be the case: Even among students who are highly motivated to work in finance after graduation, those who actually start their career in finance are significantly less trustworthy than those who work elsewhere.
Subjects: 
Trustworthiness
Financial Industry
Selection
Social Preferences
Experiment
JEL: 
C91
G20
M51
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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