Empirical approaches to trust and relational contracts

Rocco Macchiavello*, Ameet Morjaria

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Broadly speaking, economists have studied trust in two somewhat distinct ways. One approach is best captured by notions of generalized trust; another approach places trust at the core of relational contracts. After reviewing two empirical approaches to the study of relational contracts, we provide a preliminary attempt to bridge these two strands of the literature in the context of Rwanda's coffee supply chain.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number102849
JournalInternational Journal of Industrial Organization
Volume84
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 2022

Funding

We thank the editor Elisabetta Iossa, an anonymous referee and Konrad Stahl for comments and suggestions. Funding from ERC Consolidator Grant Sharing Gains, IGC, EDI and GPRL at Northwestern is gratefully acknowledged. All errors are our own.

Keywords

  • Relational Contracts
  • Trust

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Industrial relations
  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous)
  • Strategy and Management
  • Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

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