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This paper presents evidence on causal influence of happiness on social capital and trust using German Socio … endogeneity problem, the paper finds that happier people trust others more, and importantly, help create more social capital …
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We analyze possible links between both trust and trustworthiness among Syrian refugees in Germany in relation to the … bridging ties between refugees and Germans). We implement treatment conditions in which Syrian refugees play a trust game … show higher levels of trust and (un)conditional trustworthiness when they interact with a Syrian compared to when …
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This paper finds evidence that more democratic political institutions increase trust. Second generation immigrants with … country, those whose father was born in a more democratic country express higher trust than those whose father was born in a …
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social capital as measured by interpersonal and institutional trust in post-reunification Germany. We estimate the economic …
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Research on "trust" now forms a prominent part of the research agenda in history and the social sciences. Although this … research has generated useful insights, the idea of trust has been used so widely and loosely that it risks creating more … confusion than clarity. This essay argues that to the extent that scholars have a clear idea of what trust actually means, the …
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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 …
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This paper uses a unique data set from credit files of six leading German banks to provide some empirical insights into their rating systems used to classify corporate borrowers. On the basis of the New Basle Capital Accord, which allows banks to use their internal rating systems to compute...
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We examine the saving behavior of banks' retail customers. Our unique dataset comprises the contract and cash flow information for approximately 2.2 million individual contracts from 1991 to 2010. We find that contractual rewards, i.e., qualified interest payments, and government subsidies,...
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In this paper, we investigate how the introduction of complex, model-based capital regulation affected credit risk of financial institutions. Model-based regulation was meant to enhance the stability of the financial sector by making capital charges more sensitive to risk. Exploiting the...
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