. -- Trust ; Legal Origins ; Colonization ; Institutions ; Causality ; Deep Rooted Factors of Development …This paper analyses the connection between legal origins and generalized trust. Based on recent results of institutions … and trust research it argues that legal origins and trust are connected via the beliefs of agents. Next, it develops …

Trust affects almost all human relationships - in families, organizations, markets and politics. However, identifying … the conditions under which trust, defined as people's beliefs in the trustworthiness of others, has a causal effect on the … efficiency of human interactions has proven to be difficult. We show experimentally and theoretically that trust indeed has a …

Trust affects almost all human relationships - in families, organizations, markets and politics. However, identifying … the conditions under which trust, defined as people's beliefs in the trustworthiness of others, has a causal effect on the … efficiency of human interactions has proven to be difficult. We show experimentally and theoretically that trust indeed has a …

Trust affects almost all human relationships - in families, organizations, markets and politics. However, identifying … the conditions under which trust, defined as people's beliefs in the trustworthiness of others, has a causal effect on the … efficiency of human interactions has proven to be difficult. We show experimentally and theoretically that trust indeed has a …

Declining general trust has become a serious social issue in China in recent years. This paper attempts to understand … networks, it finds that the evolution of general trust is dependent on changes of the social interaction structure, and the … increases of both social and spatial distance may explain a decrease of the levels of cooperation and general trust. In addition …

capital - especially questions concerning generalized trust or generalized morality - are strongly and significantly …

-colonial state show significantly higher levels of trust in current day institutions. …-colonial institutions influence modern day attitudes towards state figures in African countries. To address the question empirically, I …

of social capital - especially questions concerning generalized trust or generalized morality - are strongly and …

capital - especially questions concerning generalized trust or generalized morality - are strongly and significantly …

Formal or informal institutions have long been adopted by societies to protect against opportunistic behavior. However …, we know very little about how these institutions are chosen and their impact on behavior. We experimentally investigate … the demand for different levels of institutions that provide low to high levels of insurance and its subsequent impact on …