Trust is considered to be a precondition for individual action, cooperative relationships and societal order. In the … social sciences, researchers have tried to explain trust by identifying the "good reasons" for trust that provide the basis … for trusting. This paper argues that although trust has to refer to reason, routine and reflexivity, it has to go beyond …

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 55, highly … favoring the Social Democratic Party or the Christian Democratic Party exhibit more trust. People above the age of 65 and those …

social trust, social relationships, and social networks as important determinants of self-reported health. The magnitude of …

Prior research suggests that trust plays an important role in an individual's decision to participate in stock markets …. This paper focuses on potential customers in retail banking markets and empirically investigates their trust in foreign … banking customers in India are less likely to trust foreign banks with their money than private Indian banks. However, our …

Can a major shock in childhood permanently shape trust? We consider a hunger episode in Germany after WWII and … regional and temporal variation. We correlate hunger exposure with measures of trust using data from a nationally … significantly lower levels of trust as adults. This finding highlights that early-life experiences can have long-term effects in …

The paper extends Breggren et al. (2008, EE) on "trust and growth: a shaky relationship" by incorporating recent … developments in the trust-growth literature and using a robust methodological underpinning that accounts for the presence of … documented positive trust-growth nexus is broadly confirmed. Secondly, when initial levels of growth come into play in …

, risk aversion, levels of trust and previous disaster experience impact the individual demand for flood insurance in rural …

services) is typically assumed to be closely related to social trust. The two sharing economy companies Airbnb and Flipkey … exist in over 100 countries, allowing us to construct a measure of sharing economy penetration to test against social trust … economic openness, whereas the correlation with social trust is negative and often statistically significant. Our conclusion is …