000K  utf8
1100  $c2015
1500  eng
2050  urn:nbn:de:hbz:464-20160728-085210-3
3000  Dai, Shuanping
3010  Elsner, Wolfram
4000  Declining Trust in Growing China$dA Dilemma between Growth and Socio-Economic Damage  [Dai, Shuanping]
4209  Declining general trust has become a serious social issue in China in recent years. This paper attempts to understand and analyze this social phenomenon from a social interaction perspective. Based on a repeated prisoners’ dilemma game on networks, it finds that the evolution of general trust is dependent on changes of the social interaction structure, and the increases of both social and spatial distance may explain a decrease of the levels of cooperation and general trust. In addition, we find that the traditional Chinese family and clan networks culture has an ambiguous effect on general trust, and simple reactive social “homing behavior” might be critical for China’s future economic development. In order to recover the general trust level, a major strategic option for China, and for fast growing countries in economic transition in general, is to (re-)develop appropriate network structures and properties, as our model indicates.
4950  https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:464-20160728-085210-3$xR$3Volltext$534
4961  https://duepublico2.uni-due.de/receive/duepublico_mods_00041060
5010  32
5051  320
5550  China JEL Classification
5550  Economic transition
5550  games on networks
5550  growth and development
5550  migration
5550  trust