This paper reviews the literature on economic inequality and trust. Cross-country studies, within-country studies, and … experiments all suggest that economic inequality exerts a negative influence on trust. Four mechanisms are proposed to explain the …

credibility (or lack-of-trust) problem for monetary policy. This indicates a possible and until now unexplored link between social … trust and central-bank independence. Our empirical findings, based on data from 149 countries, confirm that there is such a … of reform and the ability with which it can be implemented. At low trust levels, the need for central-bank independence …

This paper estimates the effect of trust on internet use by studying the general population as well as second … generation immigrants in 29 European countries with ancestry in 87 nations. There is a significant positive effect of trust on … internet use. The positive trust effect is not universal to all media, as individuals with high trust are shown to consume less …

In this paper we study the determinants of citizens' trust in the European Central Bank during the start-up phase from … 1999-2004. Using a country panel based on the Eurobarometer survey, we find that higher inflation rates reduce trust. Thus … significant impact on trust in the ECB, while unemployment spending exerts a trust-building impact. Possibly, automatic …

We construct a simple three person trust game with one trustor and two trustees. The trustor has the possibility to … either trust both trustees or none, while the trustees make their decisions either sequentially or simultaneously, depending …

characterized by a localized and well-respected administration, increased people's trust in local state services. In several Eastern … band around the former border, we find that historical Habsburg affiliation increases current trust and reduces corruption …

: Trust rather than no trust was the default. People are more trusting when the default is full trust than when it is no trust …. We introduce a new game, the distrust game (DTG), where the default is full trust and find that in it, trust levels are … higher than in the Berg, Dickhaut, and McCabe (1995) trust game (TG), where the default is no trust. At the same time …

trusting plays an important role. Trust is clearly associated with greater willingness to pay for insurance. Unlike in previous … work, trust in our setting is not about obligations being fulfilled. The contract is complete, simple and the possibility …

This paper analyses the hypothesis that the robust relationship between trust - as measured by the World Values Survey … results reveal that the correlation between trust and economic growth is robust in terms of statistical significance and sign … underlining the existing empirical evidence that trust matters in explaining differences in economic performance, our results also …