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 …

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. …

Assuming that J. S. Mill and others are correct in their belief that trust matters for the economic performance of … nations, the determinants of trust become important. Section 2 discusses the sources of trust and briefly summarizes empirical … evidence. Section 3 builds on Fukuyama’s concept of the “radius of trust” to identify the type of trust which should be …