European area as far as informal institutions are concerned; moreover, the analysis conducted confirms the existence of a … significant relation between the level of development and the structure of informal arrangements such as: trust level, bribe …

computational experiments to study the roles of generalized trust and social control for the stability and efficiency of IVTS …. Previous literature was ambiguous with regard to: (i) how trust and control should be operationalized formally, (ii) which, if … experiments suggest answers to all these questions. We show that both trust and control are necessary, but not sufficient to …

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. …

Social trust is linked to many desirable economic and social outcomes, but the causality between trust and institutions … institutions and norms (such as corruption perceptions, average trust levels and various aspects of economic freedom) on social … trust. The results suggest that individual trust suffers in countries with high corruption, low trust and low legal quality …