localized and well-respected administration increased citizens' trust in local public services. In several Eastern European … countries, communities on both sides of the long-gone Habsburg border have been sharing common formal institutions for a century … Habsburg affiliation increases current trust and reduces corruption in courts and police. Falsification tests of spuriously …

localized and well-respected administration increased citizens' trust in local public services. In several Eastern European … countries, communities on both sides of the long-gone Habsburg border have been sharing common formal institutions for a century … Habsburg affiliation increases current trust and reduces corruption in courts and police. Falsification tests of spuriously …

characterized by a localized and well-respected administration, increased people's trust in local state services. In several Eastern … institutions for over 90 years now. In border specifications that restrict identification to individuals living inside a restricted … band around the former border, we find that historical Habsburg affiliation increases current trust and reduces corruption …

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 …

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 …

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 …

study the implications of this for trust and trustworthiness. Trustworthy individuals are more \optimistic" than … institutions limiting the scope for opportunism may favor the spreading of trustworthiness (crowding in), but the opposite …

trust in institutions. We present empirical evidence to argue that the underlying mechanism is a perceived illegitimate …We study how the stringency of policy measures to counter the COVID-19 pandemic affects individuals' trust in formal … institutions. Drawing on micro-level panel data from Germany spanning an 18-month period from the onset of the pandemic, we show …

Under weak contract enforcement the trading parties' trust, defined as their belief in other's trustworthiness, appears … appear less important, suggesting that trust and contract enforcement are substitutes. Here we show, however, that trust and … contract enforcement are complements. We demonstrate that under weak contract enforcement trust has no effect on gains from …

Under weak contract enforcement the trading parties' trust, defined as their belief in other's trustworthiness, appears … appear less important, suggesting that trust and contract enforcement are substitutes. Here we show, however, that trust and … contract enforcement are complements. We demonstrate that under weak contract enforcement trust has no effect on gains from …