For a cross-section of 123 European regions, we find evidence for a positive effect of generalized trust on regional … recent literature on the effects of climate on historic trust levels. The popular explanation for spatial clustering of … be better explained by a positive influence of trust on innovation and spatial clustering of trust. …

Social trust is increasingly seen as an important determinant of economic growth and social prosperity in regions and … generalized trust. It is thus of crucial importance to identify the driving forces of regional trust and analyze the dynamics of … provided to demonstrate that values of regional trust remain substantially stable over an approx. 20-year period and are …

This paper studies which social networks maximize trust and welfare when agreements are implicitly enforced. We study a … repeated trust game in which trading opportunities arise exogenously and a social network determines the information each … cooperation and trust …

Using the cross-regional data, this paper shows that trust has a strong effect on uneven development of economy in … China. As is discovered in many studies, it is found that trust affects the growth of economy, size distribution of … enterprise, and FDI inflow and so on. We also find that cross-regional differences of trust in China are reflections of the …