increases current social capital and trust and reduces corruption in several public services. Past formal institutions can leave … on both sides of the long-gone border of the Habsburg Empire have been sharing common formal institutions for 90 years …

OSS. Also, social capital in terms of interpersonal trust has a positive impact on the number of OSS developers as well as …

social capital interpreted as interpersonal trust, an optimistic view of scientific progress, a low degree of regulation as …

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. …

of workers 50+. But neither seems to provide a convincing explanation. Historically based institutions and political …

paper takes the empirical analysis one step further by estimating the effect on income. A survey on cooperation, institutions …

There is a growing literature which analyses, using cross-country data, whether institutions or geography is the most … important deep determinant of economic development. The empirical proxies for institutions used in this literature focus on the … definition of institutions, formal and informal. This study argues that the concept of informal institutions is similar to social …

firms and institutions. In cross-country data, we show that teaching practices (such as copying from the board versus …

: Both interrogated groups apparently have more trust in abstract (governmental and non-governmental) institutions than in … academic team, composed of Friedrich L. Sell and Martin Reidelhuber, worked on the theoretical basics of "trust" and "social … "trust" and "social capital" among the students who responded. Also, we could compare many of our results with the results …