Rainer, Helmut; Siedler, Thomas - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006
The level of trust inherent in a society is important for a wide range of microeconomic and macroeconomic outcomes …. This paper investigates how individuals' attitudes toward social and institutional trust are shaped by the political regime … Germany on social and institutional trust. However, the experience of democracy by East Germans since reunification did not …