This survey reviews the recent research on trust, institutions and growth. It discusses the various measures of trust … and documents the substantial heterogeneity of trust across space and time. The conceptual mechanisms and the methods … employed to identify the causal impact of trust on economic performance are reviewed. We document the mechanisms of …

Formal or informal institutions have long been adopted by societies to protect against opportunistic behavior. However …, we know very little about how these institutions are chosen and their impact on behavior. We experimentally investigate … the demand for different levels of institutions that provide low to high levels of insurance and its subsequent impact on …

dynamics of trust in public institutions in Lebanon. It finds strong evidence that confidence in most public institutions has … ordinal categories of trust and to assumptions on the missing values generating process. This finding highlights the … order to improve the performance of public institutions. …

institutions. We improve and expand upon previous studies by (i) examining decade-long migration flows that (ii) include flows not … migrants. Once economic freedoms are controlled for, measures of political institutions do not enter significantly into our …

attitudes toward political and economic institutions. Our experiments employ widely used dictator and trust games, with four … to examine whether institutions affect social preferences. We recruited North Korean refugees and South Korean students … possible group matches between North and South Koreans by informing them of the group identity of their anonymous partners …

satisfaction gap between post-socialist and advanced countries and the role of political institutions in explaining this gap. My … and may have even reversed it in the post-crisis years. As institutions and macroeconomic conditions continue to improve …