Scandinavian, and British models. The role of trust in securing micro and macro flexibility also receives attention, leading to the …

not just public health and the economy but also societies. We focus on one pillar of society - trust - and explore how … trust correlates with the individual experiences of the pandemic. The analysis is based on a new global survey - 'Life with … are unemployed exhibit lower trust in people, institutions, and in general. By contrast, no such differences exist for …

Using data on the US and EU top R&D spenders from 2004 until 2012, this paper investigates the sources of the US/EU … in the high-tech industries), and this contributes to explaining the higher productivity of US firms. Conversely, EU …-tech sectors. Our results also show that the US/EU productivity gap has worsened during the crisis period, as the EU companies have …

crisis and find that US states had more COVID-related deaths than EU countries. When taking account of demographic, economic ….3 % higher in a US state than in an EU country. The US/EU gap disappears when we take account of health-policy related factors … US fatalities measured either 50 or 100 days after the epidemic started in a nation/state. …

that have been selected based on a business plan competition. One group received large cash grants of up to US$8,000, with …. All firms operate in agribusiness or related activities in a semi-urban area. An assessment of the short-term impacts …

Trust is crucial for successful collective action. A prime example is collective commercialization of agricultural …-day training on collective commercialization. We use this variation to identify effects on intra-group trust, both direct treatment … measures of trust in leaders' competence and motives and of trust in members we find that participating in the training …