for employees to work in co-ethnic firms. It argues that strong social networks and related high intra-group trust …

paper, Knack and Keefer (1997) assess the effect of trust on growth. This paper analyses the robustness of their results … the relationship between trust and growth in terms of both the size and the significance of the estimated effect, is … highly dependent on the set of conditioning variables. An answer to the question whether there is an economic payoff of trust …

suggest. Trust between trading partners lowers transaction costs and may therefore enhance trade. The empirical analysis of … this paper shows that more trust leads to more trade so that part of the "mystery of missing trade" can be attributed to … the lack of trust between trading partners, e.g. because of cultural differences and habits, or because of insufficient …

trust to define social capital empirically. In this paper we use three different measures of social capital: the size of the …

requires not only mutual trust, like simple exchange, but also a substantial degree of coordination. We examine whether players …

This paper empirically explores relations between network positions in knowledge networks and trust. In social network … different dimensions of trust. In this paper we estimate effects of closure positions on two dimensions of trust (trust in … abilities and trust in intentions). The closure argument emphasizes that dense network structures enforce individuals to be …