informal trust, moral attitude, PDO perception, sense of belonging to the region, and other socio-economic variables. The … variance of behaviour. PBC, trust in formal communication sources and PDO quality warranty are the main predictors of … determined by food scare, past behaviour and educational level. These empirical findings provide evidence of the solidarity …

academic team, composed of Friedrich L. Sell and Martin Reidelhuber, worked on the theoretical basics of "trust" and "social … "trust" and "social capital" among the students who responded. Also, we could compare many of our results with the results …: Both interrogated groups apparently have more trust in abstract (governmental and non-governmental) institutions than in …

We present new evidence on the influence of income inequality on generalized trust. Using individual panel data from … differences among people in the bottom half of the income distribution, are associated with lower trust. The relationship between … income inequality and trust is particularly strong for people with a strong aversion against income differentials. We also …

We conduct an extensive robustness analysis of the relationship between trust and growth for a later time period (the … results. We find that the trust-growth relationship is less robust with respect to empirical specification and to countries in … the sample than previously claimed, and that outliers affect the results. Nevertheless trust seems quite important …

We present new evidence on how generalized trust is formed. Unlike previous studies, we look at the explanatory power … Freedom Index) increase trust. The idea is that a market economy, building on voluntary transactions and interactions with … for trust to emerge between people. …

for employees to work in co-ethnic firms. It argues that strong social networks and related high intra-group trust …

to contribute also an adequate share to the community. In such a situation trustworthiness of a government and trust in a … government is high. This paper provides empirical evidence that trust is crucial for fiscal performance using data for the full … sample of Swiss cantons over the 1981-2001 period. In cantons with high levels of trust, the level of indebtedness is …

We present new evidence on the influence of income inequality on generalized trust. Using individual panel data from … especially differences among people in the bottom half of the income distribution, are associated with lower trust. The … relationship between income inequality and trust is particularly strong for people with a strong aversion against income …