have been identified. However, the impact of trust on reforms has so far never been addressed. We provide theoretical … arguments why trust should influence institutional changes and test the relationship empirically. We find a significant positive … relation between trust and reforms with regard to government size, the legal system, and deregulation of private businesses and …

have been identified. However, the impact of trust on reforms has so far never been addressed. We provide theoretical … arguments why trust should influence institutional changes and test the relationship empirically. We find a significant positive … relation between trust and reforms with regard to government size, the legal system, and deregulation of private businesses and …

This paper reports a negative relationship between the size of the shadow economy and generalized trust, in a sample of … endogeneity. It is independent from trust in institutions and from income inequality, and is mainly present in the sample of … developing countries. Those findings suggest that the tax compliance effect of trust dominates its role as a substitute for the …

, trust remains unaffected by the extent of interdependence whereas trustworthiness reacts positively to it. …

heterogeneity, and human capital have an effect upon neighborhood trust, which is ordinarily considered as a kind of particularized … trust. The major findings are as follows: (1) Income inequality is associated with low trust for both young and the old … generations. (2) Age homogeneity and education have a detrimental effect on trust. However, this tendency is not observed when the …