This research exploits the event of immigration to establish that institutions have a persistent effect on culture. It … origin institutions and origin culture suggests that it is the effect of institutions that prevails. Last, the analysis … is argued that immigrants coming from corrupt countries, tend to overtrust the institutions at the host country. This …

Intrinsically trustworthy agents never cheat. A society's willingness to trust and the quality of its institutions have … trustworthiness is important for output per capita and that the effect of trust is likely to come from trustworthiness. …

television in the formation of political consensus in Italy. Based on probit and instrumental variables estimates, we find trust … in television to be the most significant predictor of trust in the Italian prime minister. The latter is also strongly … and negatively correlated with trust in the judicial system and tolerance towards immigrants. …

To the extent that trust is necessary to conduct informal sector business activities, its absence could possibly … constrain entrepreneurial spirit and overall economic growth. This paper tests the hypothesis that differences in trust levels … is driven by trust considerations. This result is robust to regional clustering and to alternative conditioning variables …

trust is positively related to IC. Individualism and collectivism (indcol) exhibits a statistically significant relationship … over interorganizational trust and indcol to foster interorganizational cooperation. …

successful in substituting its fiscal and legal institutions for those of the medieval seigneurial regime within an area of the … themselves with national, as opposed to local, institutions. We also show that regions inside the CGF that affiliated with …

growing literature considers culturally-based beliefs and institutions as main drivers of the latter differences (Guiso et al …. 2006; Tabellini 2010). The intuition is that institutions and beliefs affect the incentive to accumulate human and physical … matter for entrepreneurship and fatalism is more important than trust in others; b) education can affect people’s fatalism; c …