support and satisfaction with democracy and trust in institutions. The analysis shows that perceptions of higher insecurity … trust in institutions, particularly in those that directly deal with crime (police and judicial system). There is regional … variation in relation to trust in institutions that are associated with drug-trafficking activity. …

trust-related process controls the formation and decay of relationships as a function of interaction frequency, the history …

for social interaction based on Dunbar's Social Brain Hypothesis (SBH). A trust related process controls the formation and … good fit the SBH predictions was found across a range of model parameter settings, which varied the waning rate of trust …, defect/cooperation rates for agents, and linear/log functions for trust increase and decay. Social interaction strategies …

We employ a multimodal logic in a decision making mechanism involving trust and reputation. The mechanism is then used … knowledge obtained from the peers, based on their perceived trust, as well as on threshold called critical mass. The influence …

While the beneficial effects of social trust on economic performance have been largely recognized, we analyze whether … regression approach that enables us to capture heterogeneous effects of trust for different development levels. By considering … data for 80 countries, and using trust indicators from five different waves of the World Values Survey (WVS), our results …

credibility (or lack-of-trust) problem for monetary policy. This indicates a possible and until now unexplored link between social … trust and central-bank independence. Our empirical findings, based on data from 149 countries, confirm such a link, in the … and the ability with which it can be implemented. At low trust, the need for central-bank independence is sufficiently …

In a recent paper (jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/12/4/11.html), Oliver Will contends that the effect of mobility on trust that … removal of the contested assumption, the results showed how mobility can lead to an increase in trust, which is consistent … with our explanation for higher trust in the US compared to Japan. Moreover, the model also shows that it is possible for …

Well-functioning institutions, both formal (i.e. rule of law) and informal (i.e. trust), facilitate economic exchange … patterns in a sample of 16 European countries between 1996–2009. Our results show that trust and rule of law are substitutes …, as the positive effect of trust on trade is conditional on the quality of the rule of law. When the rule of law of the …