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 …

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 …

lowering transaction costs. Trust towards strangers and low level of corruption are examples of high level of social capital …

forms of trust and risk, untransparent social situations and economic, political and cultural globalization. These processes …

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 …

transferring it to companies, we show how reputa­tion, trust, solidarity and norms can be built up as the main drivers for …

Olson's view, we find that members of Putnam-type (Olson-type) associations display more (no more) generalized trust than …

Does market participation promote generalized morality and trust, as postulated by some recent theories? We use … contrary. The short-term effect of market integration appears to be to lower generalized trust. However, this finding is not …

Which kind of social capital fosters the diffusion of development-oriented trust? This paper carries out an empirical …), and different forms of trust (knowledge-based trust, social trust, trust towards public services and political … the main factors fostering the diffusion of social trust among entrepreneurs are the perception that the local community …

This paper presents a model demonstrating how trust affects the volume of trade in a society. There are two ways in … which this happens. First, at minimum, societies need a certain level of trust in order to observe trading activity. Second … of trust is sufficiently high. Our results help explain empirical findings that demonstrate a positive relationship …