the most suffered the biggest loss in confidence in institutions, particularly in trust in government and the financial …We document that trust in public institutions--and particularly trust in banks, business and government--has declined … over recent years. U.S. time series evidence suggests that this partly reflects the pro-cyclical nature of trust in …

elicit people’s trust correlate well with behaviourally exhibited trust in the experiment. People above the age of 65, highly … the power of our approach with the analysis of trust and trustworthiness in Germany by combining representative survey … data with representative behavioural data from a social dilemma experiment. We identify which survey questions intended to …

. We first show that trust of second-generation Americans is significantly influenced by the country of origin of their … attitudes. We show that trust inherited by second-generation Americans from their country of origins has changed over time. This … result allows us to use the inherited trust of second-generation Americans as a time-varying instrument to track back the …

transmission tends to be biased toward excessively conservative priors. As a result, societies can be trapped in a low-trust … equilibrium. In this context, a temporary shock to the return to trusting can have a permanent effect on the level of trust. We …

In this paper we characterize a situation in which non-calculative trust has to play a role in the decision to …