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The impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on domestically owned firms in developing countries has been widely debated in the literature. It has been argued that FDI provides access to advanced technologies and other intangible assets which may spill over to the host country and allow...
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the most suffered the biggest loss in confidence in institutions, particularly in trust in government and the financial …We document that trust in public institutions and particularly trust in banks, business and government has declined … over recent years. U.S. time series evidence suggests that this partly reflects the pro-cyclical nature of trust in …
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The impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on domestically owned firms in developing countries has been widely debated in the literature. It has been argued that FDI provides access to advanced technologies and other intangible assets which may spill over to the host country and allow...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009353425
the most suffered the biggest loss in confidence in institutions, particularly in trust in government and the financial …We document that trust in public institutions – and particularly trust in banks, business and government – has declined … over recent years. U.S. time series evidence suggests that this partly reflects the pro-cyclical nature of trust in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008868129
trust. Focusing on second generation immigrants in Australia and the United States, we exploit the variation in the home and … individual trust. Our results indicate that trust in the home country contributes to the trust of second generation immigrants in … crime rate, economic inequality, race inequality and segregation by country of origin, also affect trust. Evidence for first …
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opportunistically. We find that most principals in our experiment do not restrict the agent?s choice set but trust that the agent will … perform well voluntarily. Principals who trust induce, on average, a higher performance and hence earn higher payoffs than …
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power of our approach with the analysis of trust and trustworthiness in Germany by combining representative survey data with … representative behavioral data from a social dilemma experiment. We identify which survey questions intended to elicit people's trust … correlate well with behaviorally exhibited trust in the experiment. People above the age of 65, highly skilled workers and …
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In this paper we test the effect of trust on the choice of child care technology. We estimate individual-level trust as …). Compared to other measures of trust, using this technique has several advantages: It makes more efficient use of information by … to trust using data from the European Social Survey, we analyze their personal, demographic, and regional determinants …
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, provided that they trust political institutions. Our findings suggest that one solution to the recent electoral backlash of …
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important primitives of social capital - trust and reciprocity - which can be used to explain deviations from the Nash … the behaviour of players in experimental trust and dictator games and suggest that the most informative utilization of … questionnaire about attitudes to trusting and reciprocating predict subjects' behaviour and, by comparing behaviour in Trust and …
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