Social trust is linked to many desirable economic and social outcomes, but the causality between trust and institutions … institutions and norms (such as corruption perceptions, average trust levels and various aspects of economic freedom) on social … trust. The results suggest that individual trust suffers in countries with high corruption, low trust and low legal quality …

redistribute wealth or to expand the ruling class in order to improve institutions and limit rent-seeking incentives …

taxes as an obstacle to growth. -- Institutions ; Taxes ; Quality of Public Services …

our understanding of property institutions: a central problem of property markets lies in the interaction among multiple …

results suggest that (particularly state) institutions aresignificant for growth and, especially, foreign direct investment …

The notion that foreign aid harms the institutions of recipient governments remains prevalent. We combine new … disaggregated aid data and various metrics of political institutions to re-examine this relationship. Long-run cross-section and … alternative dynamic panel estimators show a small positive net effect of total aid on political institutions. Distinguishing …

effect that these institutions may have had, and continue to have, on contemporary institutional performance. Using … current institutions and are shown to be complementary to existing measure of institutional quality. …