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 …

levels of trust, a stronger sense of ethnic identity and a weaker sense of national identity. …

This paper aims to show that culture is an important determinant of the effectiveness of formal democratic institutions … elections. These results support the view that social capital complements democratic institutions such as elections. …

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 …

This survey reviews the recent research on trust, institutions and economic development. It discusses the various … institutions and policies can affect trust and promote pro-social behaviors. … measures of trust and documents the substantial heterogeneity of trust across space and time. The conceptual mechanisms that …

We develop entrepreneurship and institutional theory to explain variation in different types of entrepreneurship across … grow faster. We test these hypotheses using the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor surveys in 55 countries for 2001 …

in which taboos are part of the definition of one's identity. Deliberating over breaking the taboo adds the action to the … individual’s choice set and provides information on possible private benefits but is costly because it contradicts one's identity … varying strengths of taboos. Having such a choice defines an evolutionary process with respect to identity: Some identities …

the same type of agents might be weak even if the within-type link cost is very low; (ii) oppositional identity patterns …