Prior research suggests that trust plays an important role for individuals' participation in stock markets. This paper … focuses on potential customers in retail banking markets and empirically investigates their trust in foreign banks and … in India are less likely to trust foreign banks with their money than Indian private banks. However, our results also …

social capital as measured by interpersonal and institutional trust in post-reunification Germany. We estimate the economic …

' Union, Women's Union, etc.) and other voluntary organizations, trust, and the significance of family ties in economic … Communist Party membership, trust and access to informal insurance. …

We show that the standard trust question routinely used in social capital research is importantly related to … others cooperation. We find that the standard trust question is a proxy for cooperation preferences rather than beliefs about … others cooperation. Moreover, we show that the fairness question , a recently proposed alternative to the standard trust …

paper, Knack and Keefer (1997) assess the effect of trust on growth. This paper analyses the robustness of their results … the relationship between trust and growth in terms of both the size and the significance of the estimated effect, is … highly dependent on the set of conditioning variables. An answer to the question whether there is an economic payoff of trust …

In this paper, we argue that an important function fulfilled by intermediaries is to facilitate trust by enabling …