ABSTRACT

This paper examines many instances of the same investment game to explore the questions of how violence affects trusting and trustworthy behaviors and how those behaviors affect a country’s level of violence or peacefulness. Average responses of players in the investment game are compared across countries experiencing varying degrees of peacefulness or conflict. The primary finding is that a macroeconomic peace index can predict trusting behavior but has no effect on trustworthy behavior. Trustworthiness, on the other hand, affects peacefulness. It is necessary, then for policymakers to foster trust and trustworthiness among individuals in order to maintain peace, and they must work to rebuild macroeconomic institutions to restore trust, to repair communities, and to revitalize economies after conflict.

摘要

本文研究了同一投资游戏的许多实例，以探讨暴力如何影响信任和值得信赖的行为以及这些行为如何影响一个国家的暴力或和平程度的问题。比较了经历不同程度的和平或冲突的国家的投资游戏参与者的平均反应。主要发现是宏观经济和平指数可以预测信任行为，但对可信任行为没有影响。另一方面，可信赖性会影响和平。因此，政策制定者有必要培养个人之间的信任和可信赖性以维护和平，他们必须努力重建宏观经济机构以恢复信任、修复社区并在冲突后重振经济。