Which kind of social capital fosters the diffusion of development-oriented trust? This paper carries out an empirical …), and different forms of trust (knowledge-based trust, social trust, trust towards public services and political … the main factors fostering the diffusion of social trust among entrepreneurs are the perception that the local community …

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 …

There are multiple dimensions of trust. The standard meaning I call "strategic trust." But more important is … "moralistic trust," which does not stem from experience, but rather is learned early in life and is largely stable over time …. Moralistic trust leads people to do good works such as contributing to charity and volunteering time and to be more tolerant …

Are natural resources a source of conflict or stability? Empirical studies demonstrate that rents from natural … source of conflict and the rentier state view which emphasizes the role of resource rents in promoting peace and stability … activate more interest groups in a power struggle. We demonstrate that the associated increased cost of conflict may in fact …

protocol or a conflict to appropriate the surplus. In the cooperative negotiations, disagreement corresponds to a pro rata … which conflict will be preferred to negotiated agreements (and vice versa), and we derive welfare implications. Finally, we …