Trading privacy for trust thanks to the linkage of pseudonyms has been proposed to mitigate the inherent conflict between trust and privacy. This necessitates fusionym, that is, the calculation of a unique trust value supposed to reflect the overall trustworthiness brought by the set of linked pseudonyms. In fact, some pieces of evidence may overlap and be overcounted, leading to an incorrect t...

The aim of this paper is to empirically analyse the role of trust in the process of growth and economic development. To be precise, the effect of trust on income growth, physical and human capital accumulation, the invention and diffusion of technologies, formal institutions, governance and financial development is examined. Cross-country regressions are used to evaluate whether trust has an ec...

The growing interest in e-Government raises the question of how governments can increase citizen adoption and usage of their online government services. e-Government becomes especially important given its potential to reduce costs and improve service compared with alternative traditional modes. Citizen trust is proposed to be an important catalyst of e-Government adoption. By investigating onli...

Despite the inherent risk arising from separating buyers and sellers, networked online marketplaces are proliferating. We describe how online auction marketplaces take advantage of institutional structures to build buyer trust in auction sellers, mitigate risk, increase satisfaction, and promote transaction intentions. It is hypothesized, based on institutional trust (Zucker 1986), that buyer t...

Through experimentation, we establish a causal relationship between structural assurance and both vendor trustworthiness (knowledge-based trust) and technology trustworthiness (institution-based trust). We expand the definitions of structural assurance and institution-based trust to include the element of security measures employed by the marketplace technology. Situational normality demonstrat...