The level of trust inherent in a society is important for a wide range of microeconomic and macroeconomic outcomes …. This paper investigates how individuals' attitudes toward social and institutional trust are shaped by the political regime … Germany on social and institutional trust. However, the experience of democracy by East Germans since reunification did not …

What are the long-term effects of Communism on economically relevant notions such as social trust? To answer this … convergence with regard to individuals' trust and risk, as well as perceived fairness and cooperativeness. Our hypotheses are … than by reputation. Moreover, East Germans are found to be more risk loving than West Germans. In contrast to trust and …

with the analysis of trust and trustworthiness in Germany by combiningrepresentative survey data with representative … behavioral data from a social dilemmaexperiment. We identify which survey questions intended to elicit people's trust correlate … wellwith behaviorally exhibited trust in the experiment. People above the age of 65, highly skilledworkers and people living in …