This paper analyzes the relations between social capital, institutions and trust. These concepts are full of ambiguity … and confusion. This paper attempts to dissolve some of the confusion, by distinguishing trust and control, and analyzing … institutional and relational conditions of trust. It presents a tool for the analysis of the foundations of trust and a diagnosis of …

Declining general trust has become a serious social issue in China in recent years. This paper attempts to understand … networks, it finds that the evolution of general trust is dependent on changes of the social interaction structure, and the … increases of both social and spatial distance may explain a decrease of the levels of cooperation and general trust. In addition …

paper, Knack and Keefer (1997) assess the effect of trust on growth. This paper analyses the robustness of their results … the relationship between trust and growth in terms of both the size and the significance of the estimated effect, is … highly dependent on the set of conditioning variables. An answer to the question whether there is an economic payoff of trust …

Trust among individuals of a society is an important dimension of social capital and may have different economic and … development implications. The present study is an attempt to investigate the relationship of trust with economic growth and human … development. It is unique in at least two different aspects. Firstly, it has used an index for quantifying trust which may be more …

This research is an attempt to assess the impact of trust, helpfulness, and fairness on economic growth in Europe. The … first part of the paper highlights the concept of social capital and the related concept of trust, while the second part …: generalized trust, helpfulness, and fairness, which can be combined into an aggregated variable, called 'cooperation capital'. The …