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 survey reviews the recent research on trust, institutions and growth. It discusses the various measures of trust … and documents the substantial heterogeneity of trust across space and time. The conceptual mechanisms and the methods … employed to identify the causal impact of trust on economic performance are reviewed. We document the mechanisms of …

This survey reviews the recent research on trust, institutions, and economic development. It discusses the various … measures of trust and documents the substantial heterogeneity of trust across space and time. The conceptual mechanisms that … explain the influence of trust on economic performance and the methods employed to identify the causal impact of trust on …

We investigate the long-run effects of government surveillance on civic capital and economic performance, studying the …-reunification effect of government surveillance. We find that a higher spying density led to persistently lower levels of interpersonal and … institutional trust in post-reunification Germany. We also find substantial and long-lasting economic effects of Stasi surveillance …

with several intervening factors, such as levels of respect for social norms, interpersonal trust, degrees of confidence in … paper inquires whether the greater socioeconomic development experienced by Chile was actually related to greater legitimacy … of the law, higher levels of trust in public institutions, lower perceived levels of corruption, and greater …