Social trust is linked to many desirable economic and social outcomes, but the causality between trust and institutions … institutions and norms (such as corruption perceptions, average trust levels and various aspects of economic freedom) on social … trust. The results suggest that individual trust suffers in countries with high corruption, low trust and low legal quality …

perceived institutional quality, as measured by citizens' expressed willingness to abide by key formal institutions. This …

is enormous: billionaires. We explore the relationship between economic development, institutions, and these contrasting … kinds of entrepreneurs. We find that the institutions consistent with self-employed entrepreneurs differ markedly from the … ones consistent with billionaires. Further, only the latter are consistent with the institutions that underlie economic …

institutions. We present an alternative way of generalizing the notion of entrepreneurship and show how and why it encompasses the … of institutions constitutes an important set of entrepreneurial profit opportunities. An implication of this is that … entrepreneurial efforts to reform or offset inefficient institutions can in some cases be welfare-improving. …

that sharing economy services do not require high levels of social trust to succeed. Rather, they provide institutions that … services) is typically assumed to be closely related to social trust. The two sharing economy companies Airbnb and Flipkey … exist in over 100 countries, allowing us to construct a measure of sharing economy penetration to test against social trust …

Trust and entrepreneurship are seen as key ingredients of long-term prosperity. However, it is not clear how these two … the relationship between trust and entrepreneurship, by proposing two mechanisms relating trust to entrepreneurship by … employees, so-called intrapreneurship. We hypothesize that generalized trust influences the prevalence of intrapreneurship in an …

This paper presents evidence that generalized trust promotes health. Children of immigrants in a broad set of European … in trust across countries of ancestry. There is a significant positive estimate of ancestral trust in explaining …. Individuals with higher ancestral trust are also less likely to be hampered by health problems in their daily life, providing …

between cultural background and current institutions, where building trust in Northern Europe is a long process but the …This paper estimates the intergenerational transmission of trust by studying second generation immigrants in 29 … European countries with ancestry in 87 nations. There is significant transmission of trust on the mother's side. The …

This paper estimates the effect of trust on internet use by studying the general population as well as second … generation immigrants in 29 European countries with ancestry in 87 nations. There is a significant positive effect of trust on … internet use. The positive trust effect is not universal to all media, as individuals with high trust are shown to consume less …