This research is an attempt to assess the impact of trust, helpfulness, and fairness on economic growth in Europe. The … first part of the paper highlights the concept of social capital and the related concept of trust, while the second part …: generalized trust, helpfulness, and fairness, which can be combined into an aggregated variable, called 'cooperation capital'. The …

The paper extends Breggren et al. (2008, EE) on 'trust and growth: a shaky relationship" by incorporating recent … developments in the trust-growth literature and using a robust methodological underpinning that accounts for the presence of … documented positive trust-growth nexus is broadly confirmed. Secondly, when initial levels of growth come into play in …

shifted the policy debate from growth to inclusive growth. In this short note, we revisit the trust-growth nexus by exploiting … variables are used as additional controls. The findings broadly support the positive role of trust in QG. In addition …, relatively high thresholds of inequality are needed to change this positive trust-QG nexus in some distributions. …

The paper extends Breggren et al. (2008, EE) on "trust and growth: a shaky relationship" by incorporating recent … developments in the trust-growth literature and using a robust methodological underpinning that accounts for the presence of … documented positive trust-growth nexus is broadly confirmed. Second, when initial levels of growth come into play in determining …

parameters representing the relevance of social interaction and trust in well-being and production. When material consumption and …

Using data from US states, we find a positive relationship between trust and growth. According to our results, a 10 … percentage point increase in trust increases the growth rate of per capita income by 0.5 percentage point, growth rate of housing …