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 …

Fairness can be an important factor that promotes social trust among people. In this paper, I investigate empirically … whether fairness between men and women increases social trust. Using the data of the World Value Survey from 91 countries, I … find that gender discriminatory values negatively affect the trust level of both men and women, while actual conditions on …

This paper studies the relationship between trust and foreign direct investment (FDI) in a crosssection of countries …. Accounting for the issue endogeneity, this paper suggests that countries with a higher level of generalized trust attract more … FDI than the low-trust countries. -- trust ; Foreign Direct Investment ; causality …