The working group analyzes the complex relationship between trust and forms of economic conflict. While markets are generally seen as a guarantor of economic trust, most decisions are not made in an institutional vacuum, but within the framework of formal and informal institutions. At the heart of the group’s empirical work program are two projects, one on how the COVID-19 pandemic is reshaping the relationship between the state and the economy, and one on how crises are changing the gendered division of labor in the household.