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The use and abuse of trust : social capital and its deployment by early modern guilds

Ogilvie, Sheilagh C. (contributor) - 2004

Guilds are social scientists ̕favoured historical example of institutions generating a social capital ̕of trust that benefited entire economies. This article considers this view in the light of empirical findings for early modern Europe. It draws the distinction between a particularized...

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Health system trust and compliance with Covid-19 restrictions

Costa-Font, Joan; Vilaplana Prieto, Cristina - 2023

We examine the extent to which exposure to higher relative COVID-19 mortality (RM), influences health system trust (HST), and whether changes in HST influence the perceived ease of compliance with pandemic restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on evidence from two representative...

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Preaching to the agnostic : inflation reporting can increase trust in the Central Bank but only among people with weak priors

Hayo, Bernd; Méon, Pierre-Guillaume - 2023

Using a randomized controlled trial, we study whether showing German respondents a graph plotting the European Central Bank's inflation target alongside inflation in the euro area from 1999 to 2017 affects respondents' trust in the ECB. The treatment has, on average, no significant effect on the...

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Vaccination decisions and social capital in Japan

Okubo, Toshihiro; Noy, Ilan - 2024

The COVID-19 vaccines played a pivotal role in safeguarding populations. Yet, vaccine hesitancy remained a significant barrier to increasing coverage rates, as many high-income countries faced prolonged vaccine refusal campaigns. In Japan, vaccine doses were administered under a reservation...

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Can competition spoil reciprocity? : a laboratory experiment

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Große, Niels D. - 2010

This paper investigates how group membership and competition among trustors interact with trust and trustworthiness in a laboratory one-shot trust game. To analyze these effects, we apply a 2x2 design. We induce group membership by letting subjects play coordination games with clear focal...

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Trade, trust and institutions

Yu, Shu; Haan, Jakob de; Beugelsdijk, Sjoerd - 2011

To investigate the relation between trust and formal institutions, we analyze bilateral trade patterns in a sample of 16 European countries between 1996-2009. Trust in trading partners has a significant positive effect on bilateral trade. However, our results suggest that trust and formal...

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Competition and trust : evidence from German car manufacturers

Felli, Leonardo; Koenen, Johannes; Stahl, Konrad - 2011

We explore the determinants and effects of trust relationships between upstream suppliers and downstream producers. Using unique survey data on individual supplier-buyer relationships in the German automotive industry, we show, by means of different measures of supplier-buyer trust, that higher...

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Trust in public institutions over the business cycle

Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2011

the most suffered the biggest loss in confidence in institutions, particularly in trust in government and the financial … sector. Finally, analysis of several repeated cross-sections of confidence within U.S. states yields similar qualitative … patterns, but much smaller magnitudes in response to state-specific shocks. -- trust ; institutions ; confidence ; survey data …

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The empire is dead, long live the empire! : long-run persistence of trust and corruption in the bureaucracy

Becker, Sascha O.; Boeckh, Katrin; Hainz, Christa; … - 2011

Do empires affect attitudes towards the state long after their demise? We hypothesize that the Habsburg Empire with its localized and well-respected administration increased citizens' trust in local public services. In several Eastern European countries, communities on both sides of the...

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Trust, racial fragmentation and income inequality : new evidence from the US

Tesei, Andrea - 2014

Existing studies of trust formation in U.S. metropolitan areas have found that trust is lower when there is more income inequality and greater racial fragmentation. I add to this literature by examining the role of income inequality between racial groups (racial income inequality). I find that...

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