the parties are able to trust each other. However, the creation and maintenance of trust is quite difficult. For this … reason, the paper will delve into different types of trust that can be used for cooperation and identify which type of trust …, Elhardt and Weinhardt to show that there is a causal link between trust and cooperation and that trust of a specific kind can …

suggest. Trust between trading partners lowers transaction costs and may therefore enhance trade. The empirical analysis of … this paper shows that more trust leads to more trade so that part of the mystery of missing trade can be attributed to the … lack of trust between trading partners, e.g. because of cultural differences and habits, or because of insufficient …

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 …

This survey reviews the recent research on trust, institutions and growth. It discusses the various measures of trust … and documents the substantial heterogeneity of trust across space and time. The conceptual mechanisms and the methods … employed to identify the causal impact of trust on economic performance are reviewed. We document the mechanisms of …