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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 …
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Morality exerts an important influence on the behavior of economic actors, and behavior largely determines economic performance. Yet morality has received remarkably little attention from economists. In this paper, I explicitly incorporate morality into a simple static general equilibrium model...
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morality affects growth is direct or indirect through generalized trust. The findings reveal that generalized morality is … correlated with economic growth, but its effect is manifested primarily through generalized trust when economic institutions are …
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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 …
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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 …
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paper, Knack and Keefer (1997) assess the effect of trust on growth. This paper analyses the robustness of their results … the relationship between trust and growth in terms of both the size and the significance of the estimated effect, is … highly dependent on the set of conditioning variables. An answer to the question whether there is an economic payoff of trust …
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The user has become central to the way technology is conceptualized, designed, and studied in sociotechnical research and human-computer interaction; recently, non-users have also become productive foci of scholarly analysis. This paper argues that a focus on individualized users and non-users...
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The paper shows the opinions on taxes of Italian citizens based on data gathered in four different national surveys between 1992 and 2013. Through a Principal Component Analysis, the study constructs a synthetic indicator of the propensity to evade, examining its intensity across various social...
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Modern economics includes two fundamentally different fields, each labelled ‘Cultural Economics’. The first type ‘Cultural Institutions’ deals with a specific sector of the economy and society, namely institutions in the performing arts, visual arts, and other forms of cultural industry....
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Everyone realizes the importance of social norms as guides to behavior and substitutes for law, but coming up with a paradigm for analyzing norms has been surprisingly difficult, as has systematic empirical study. In this chapter we survey the topic.
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