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 …

This study examines the association between urban/rural residence and various forms of trust in Hungary, including … control variables such as age, gender, income, marriage, qualification into the analysis. Trust is a basic dimension of human … capital and a very often used concept in everyday situations too. Trust research became increasingly popular in recent years …

We examine how the transparency of the European Central Bankś monetary policy affects the amount of trust that the … exerts a non-linear effect on trust. Transparency increases trust, but only up to a certain point; too much transparency … harms trust. This result is robust to controlling for a number of macroeconomic conditions, financial stability transparency …

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 …

incorporates three key dimensions of personal social capital; (i) structural (personal ties), (ii) cognitive (trust) and (iii … argue that tolerance acts as a bridging mechanism between trust and ties in affecting overall wellbeing. Using ordered … improves life satisfaction. Of the social capital indicators, we find that trust in institutions has the largest marginal …

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 …