. -- 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 …

significant dependence of current financial institutions on the legal origin and the colonization type. Findings also reveal that … current legal financial institutions are not the major determinants of banking system development, whereas institutional and …

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 …

and evolutionary factors. Additionally, it draws the attention to the impact of colonization on fragmentation, especially … in influencing a country's ethnic boundaries. -- Colonization ; Endogeneity ; Ethnic fractionalization (ELF …