where historical antisemitism was higher express lower trust in finance, but have levels of generalized trust similar to …

localized and well-respected administration increased citizens’ trust in local public services. In several Eastern European … Habsburg affiliation increases current trust and reduces corruption in courts and police. Falsification tests of spuriously … moved borders, geographic and pre-existing differences, and interpersonal trust corroborate a genuine Habsburg effect. …

To investigate the relation between trust and formal institutions, we analyze bilateral trade patterns in a sample of … 16 European countries between 1996-2009. Trust in trading partners has a significant positive effect on bilateral trade …. However, our results suggest that trust and formal institutions are substitutes, as the positive effect of trust on trade is …

the lab - here the amount sent in a trust game (Berg, Dickaut, McCabe, 1995). As it turns out, the measures themselves are …. Moreover, with respect to behaviour in the trust game, we find a high re-test stability of transfers (p = .70). This further …

Institutions are important for proper economic performance, but are replaceable by trust or other social norms. We show … that when proper institutions and trust are missing, integrity of the individuals can replace them. We construct a model of …) trust, or (3) integrity, foster economic growth. We construct data of economic performance of social groups in Lebanon …

In this paper we investigate the long- and short-run relationships between disasters and societal trust. A growing body … determinants of social capital in general, and trust in particular. We present new cross-country and panel data evidence of another … important determinant of trust—the frequency of natural disasters. Frequent naturally occurring events such as storms require …