-competitive practices, through the integration of a concrete view of "embeddedness" (Granovetter, 1985). We propose the use of game theory …

aftermath of geo-localized social protests in Africa, we find that trust in monitoring institutions and beliefs in social … coordination strongly evolve after riots, together with trust in leaders. As no signs of social unrest can be recorded before, the … the country's institutions. Our interpretation is the following. Agents lend their taxes to a leader with imperfect …

in institutions, populations, according to their culture and to their territory, get organized to find solutions to the …

This paper investigates the relationship between trust and macroeconomic volatility. In a cross section of countries …, we show that higher trust is associated with lower macroeconomic instability. We use the inherited trust of Americans as … an instrumental variable of trust in their origin country to overcome all potential reverse causality concerns. We use …

This paper documents the co-evolution of social capital, measured as generalized trust, and financial development over … the twentieth century. I use cross generations inherited trust of Americans with foreign ancestors to track trust in their … home country in 1913 and 1990. The paper documents a positive cross-section relationship between trust and financial …

level of democracy plays an important role while education and economic institutions have no effect. …

identifies some efficiency gains associated with narrow banking using an approach based on search theory. It is herein shown that …