The paper extends Breggren et al. (2008, EE) on "trust and growth: a shaky relationship" by incorporating recent … developments in the trust-growth literature and using a robust methodological underpinning that accounts for the presence of … documented positive trust-growth nexus is broadly confirmed. Secondly, when initial levels of growth come into play in …

Fairness can be an important factor that promotes social trust among people. In this paper, I investigate empirically … whether fairness between men and women increases social trust. Using the data of the World Value Survey from 91 countries, I … find that gender discriminatory values negatively affect the trust level of both men and women, while actual conditions on …

This paper studies the relationship between trust and foreign direct investment (FDI) in a crosssection of countries …. Accounting for the issue endogeneity, this paper suggests that countries with a higher level of generalized trust attract more … FDI than the low-trust countries. -- trust ; Foreign Direct Investment ; causality …

suggest. Trust between trading partners lowers transaction costs and may therefore enhance trade. The empirical analysis of … this paper shows that more trust leads to more trade so that part of the mystery of missing trade can be attributed to the … lack of trust between trading partners, e.g. because of cultural differences and habits, or because of insufficient …

Since trust correlates with economic development and in turn economic development associates with political regime, we … conjecture that there may be a relationship between trust and political regime. We investigate if trust aggregated on the country …

not just public health and the economy but also societies. We focus on one pillar of society-trust-and explore how trust … unemployed exhibit lower trust in people, institutions, and in general. By contrast, no such differences exist for those who have …