theoretical discussions of cooperative and trust behavior framed in terms of attitudes, esteem and, most of all, intentions. An …We claim that the emergence of trust is best explained by relation-based arguments. After briefly surveying alternative … documented by a lot of evidence produced by neuroeconomic experiments. When trust is based on relations and on the recognition of …

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 …