Browsing HKS Faculty Scholarship by Keyword "Trust"
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The Elasticity of Trust: How to Promote Trust in the Arab Middle East and the United States
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2010)To trust is to risk. When we lend someone money, we make ourselves vulnerable, hoping or expecting that the borrower will reward our trust and return the money at a later stage, possibly with interest or a reciprocal favor ... -
Trust and the Reference Points for Trustworthiness in Gulf and Western Countries
(2009)Why is private investment so low in Gulf compared to Western countries? We investigate cross-regional differences in trust and reference points for trustworthiness as possible factors. Experiments controlling for cross-regional ... -
Variable Temptations and Black Mark Reputations
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2011)In a world of imperfect information, reputations often guide the sequential decisions to trust and to reward trust. We consider two-player situations, where one player – the truster – decides whether to trust, and the other ...