Torgler, Benno; Schaltegger, Christoph A. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005
to contribute also an adequate share to the community. In such a situation trustworthiness of a government and trust in a … government is high. This paper provides empirical evidence that trust is crucial for fiscal performance using data for the full … sample of Swiss cantons over the 1981-2001 period. In cantons with high levels of trust, the level of indebtedness is …