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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 …
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, widespread crime has the potential to weaken trust between citizens and institutions, undermine government reform efforts, and … trust in formal public institutions and trust in informal private networks. It is based on a representative sample of … and the resulting erosion of trust in public institutions. …
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The causes of internal conflicts are not easy to identify, and in order to understand its dynamics it is important to determine the factors that influence its persistence. The appropriation of economic resources has been identified as a cause of the conflict; however, asset appropriation may not...
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This research exploits the event of immigration to establish that institutions have a persistent effect on culture. It … is argued that immigrants coming from corrupt countries, tend to overtrust the institutions at the host country. This … inflated trust of immigrants is documented as the Great Expectations effect. This result is interesting and intriguing for …
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This research exploits the event of immigration to establish that institutions have a persistent effect on culture. It … is argued that immigrants coming from corrupt countries, tend to overtrust the institutions at the host country. This … inflated trust of immigrants is documented as the Great Expectations effect. This result is interesting and intriguing for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114192
Auxiliary institutions fail to perform the function of protecting economic agents’ trust in the liquidity of various … demonstrate a high level of trust among their participants. The durability and continuous reproduction of these monetary … question of trust arising among the parties to these financial transactions and its role in preventing opportunism and breach …
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European area as far as informal institutions are concerned; moreover, the analysis conducted confirms the existence of a … significant relation between the level of development and the structure of informal arrangements such as: trust level, bribe …
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Policy interest since the early 1980s has focused in different ways on the creation of a large, productive, taxable economy - in which entrepreneurship plays a role for employment, income growth and innovation. The current understanding of various forms of entrepreneurship remains incomplete,...
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This paper aims to show that culture is an important determinant of the effectiveness of formal democratic institutions … elections. These results support the view that social capital complements democratic institutions such as elections. …
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institutions of producers in the grain surplus and deficit regions of the Central Highlands of Ethiopia are examined under … such as land are government owned and household decisions are shared by the state, local institutions or social networks … importantly by the potential of knowledge and institutions of producers to adjust to environmental changes, and support from …
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