political institutions) towards economic growth. Utilizing the World Value Survey (WVS)’s trust variable that has often been … studies, this study shows that WVS’ trust data suffer severe missing observation problem and the panel fixed effect estimation … of social capital beyond the WVS trust indicator. The results also indicate that political institutions effect on growth …

The paper extends Breggren et al. (2008, EE) on ‘trust and growth: a shaky relationship” by incorporating recent … developments in the trust-growth literature and using a robust methodological underpinning that accounts for the presence of … documented positive trust-growth nexus is broadly confirmed. Secondly, when initial levels of growth come into play in …

trust as a key variety of social capital and it's status among the Poles. Indicated are also differences between the … suspicion, mistrust and functional substitutes for trust. The whole is complemented by breakdown of bottom-up methods of social …