have been identified. However, the impact of trust on reforms has not been fully addressed. We provide theoretical … arguments why trust should influence institutional changes and test the relationship empirically. We find a significant positive … relation between trust and the success of reforms with regard to government size, the legal system, and deregulation of private …

We present new evidence on how generalized trust is formed. Unlike previous studies, we look at the explanatory power … Freedom Index) increase trust. The idea is that a market economy, building on voluntary transactions and interactions with … for trust to emerge between people. …

We present new evidence on how generalized trust is formed. Unlike previous studies, we look at the explanatory power … Freedom Index) increase trust. The idea is that a market economy, building on voluntary transactions and interactions with … for trust to emerge between people. …

We present new evidence on how generalized trust is formed. Unlike previous studies, we look at the explanatory power … Freedom Index) increase trust. The idea is that a market economy, building on voluntary transactions and interactions with … for trust to emerge between people. …

robustly established that remittances and trust matter for financial development. …

This paper reports a negative relationship between the size of the shadow economy and generalized trust, in a sample of … endogeneity. It is independent from trust in institutions and from income inequality, and is mainly present in the sample of … developing countries. Those findings suggest that the tax compliance effect of trust dominates its role as a substitute for the …

-based incentive systems will induce a similar crowding outeffect of trust. Thus, the objective of our paper is to conceptually prove …,which considers trust as a relevant alternative for designing efficientcorporate governance systems... …