three main social capital dimensions (institutional trust, social participation and political participation) and four … about personal determinant of social capital, in its political approach and, also, about the key role of institutional trust …

For a cross-section of 123 European regions, we find evidence for a positive effect of generalized trust on regional … recent literature on the effects of climate on historic trust levels. The popular explanation for spatial clustering of … be better explained by a positive influence of trust on innovation and spatial clustering of trust. …

, and whether this is anticipated by outsiders. We develop a simple model of bayesian learning in trust games and test the … derived hypotheses in a controlled laboratory environment. In the experiment, two trustees sequentially play a trust game with …