Intercultural trust. An experiment in Austria and Japan

Robert Jiro Netzer () and Matthias Sutter

Working Papers from Faculty of Economics and Statistics, Universität Innsbruck

Abstract: We show that the level of trust and reciprocity in an intercultural trust game experiment between Austrian and Japanese subjects differs from the results of an intracultural experiment run in the respective countries among compatriots. Austrian subjects show significantly higher levels of trust towards Japanese subjects than towards fellow countrymen. Japanese do not differentiate between Austrian or Japanese subjects. Japanese subjects are found to be less reciprocal than Austrian subjects. A post-experimental survey reveals differences in culture-specific dispositions between the two countries that can explain the country-specific differences.

Keywords: intercultural experiment; intracultural experiment; trust game; Austria; Japan (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C71 C91 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 40
Date: 2009-03
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cbe, nep-exp and nep-soc
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