robustly established that remittances and trust matter for financial development. …

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 …

players to reward trust even if material incentives dictate to exploit trust. By analyzing the crowding out or crowding in of …

determinants of cooperative behavior. We provide evidence indicating that the well-being maximizing level of trust is above the … income maximizing level. Higher trust is also linked to more cooperative and pro-social behaviors, including the private …

This paper studies the relationship between generalized trust, temperature fluctuations during the maize growing season …, and international migration by asylum seekers. A priori generalized trust can be expected to have an ambiguous effect on … migration. On the one hand, countries with higher trust may exhibit higher adaptive capacity to temperature fluctuations and so …