Supervisors occupy central roles in production and performance monitoring. We study how heterogeneity in performance … evaluations across supervisors affects employee and supervisor careers and firm outcomes using data on the performance system of a … Scandinavian service sector firm. We show that supervisors vary widely in how they rate subordinates of similar quality. To …

leadership, morale and surprise, have continued to be important determinants of battle outcome despite technological progress in …

the power of our approach with the analysis of trust and trustworthiness in Germany by combining representative survey … elicit people's trust correlate well with behaviorally exhibited trust in the experiment. People above the age of 65, highly … favoring the Social Democratic Party or the Christian Democratic Party exhibit more trust. People above the age of 65 and those …

We investigate the effects of both trust and sociability for stock market participation, the role of which has been …, Ageing and Retirement in Europe supplemented with regional information on generalized trust from the World Value Survey and … on specific trust to financial institutions from Eurobarometer. We show that trust and sociability have distinct and …

We conduct an extensive robustness analysis of the relationship between trust and growth for a later time period (the … results. We find that the trust-growth relationship is less robust with respect to empirical specification and to countries in … the sample than previously claimed, and that outliers affect the results. Nevertheless trust seems quite important …

We examine the effect of generalized trust on long-term economic growth. Unlike in previous studies, we use Bayesian … endogeneity and assess whether the effect of trust on growth is causal. Examining more than forty regressors for nearly fifty … countries, we show that trust exerts a positive effect on long-term growth and, based on the posterior inclusion probabilities …

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 …