This study mainly examines the relationship between generalized/horizontal/social trust and economic growth in … countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, considering the substantial decline in their trust values since … from 1999 to 2020. Trust data were obtained from the last four waves of the World Values Survey (WVS). A Pooled Ordinary …

limit individuals' range of trading partners. This paper aims at understanding the determinants of trust at various social … increase in trust following a reduction in social distance comes from the fact that trustors are much more inclined to follow … trust is mainly driven by social preferences. Nevertheless, trustors underestimate their friend's intrinsic motivation to …

limit individuals' range of trading partners. This paper aims at understanding the determinants of trust at various social … increase in trust following a reduction in social distance comes from the fact that trustors are much more inclined to follow … trust is mainly driven by social preferences. Nevertheless, trustors underestimate their friend's intrinsic motivation to …

part of the social network. We examine what makes the decision to trust a stranger different from the decision to trust a … implement a binary trust game with hidden action in a lab-in-the-field experiment with residents of an informal housing area in … Cairo. Our results show that trust is higher among friends than among strangers and that higher trust among friends is …

COVID-19 pandemic on social trust, reciprocity, solidarity as well as institutional trust. Using incentivized outcome … questions on trust and solidarity towards fellow citizens, people from other EU countries and non-EU countries, we assess the … positive treatment effects on solidarity. Our study further establishes that the pandemic reduces trust in institutions, 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 …: Both interrogated groups apparently have more trust in abstract (governmental and non-governmental) institutions than in …

We present new evidence on the influence of income inequality on generalized trust. Using individual panel data from … differences among people in the bottom half of the income distribution, are associated with lower trust. The relationship between … income inequality and trust is particularly strong for people with a strong aversion against income differentials. We also …

We conduct an extensive robustness analysis of the relationship between trust and growth for a later time period (the … results. We find that the trust-growth relationship is less robust with respect to empirical specification and to countries in … the sample than previously claimed, and that outliers affect the results. Nevertheless trust seems quite important …