In this paper, we argue that an important function fulfilled by intermediaries is to facilitate trust by enabling …

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. …

television in the formation of political consensus in Italy. Based on probit and instrumental variables estimates, we find trust … in television to be the most significant predictor of trust in the Italian prime minister. The latter is also strongly … and negatively correlated with trust in the judicial system and tolerance towards immigrants. …

types of enterprises in the creation of social trust. Drawing on a unique dataset collected through the administration of a … cooperatives are the only type of enterprise where the work environment fosters the social trust of workers. …

economically relevant aspect of social capital, trust. We use measures of trust in strangers (or social trust), trust in neighbours … and trust in the police. We address endogeneity in the use of SNS by exploiting the variation in the availability of … infrastructures. We find that all the proxies of trust significantly decrease with participation in online networks. We discuss …

increase of trust in business relations does not correlate with the dynamic capabilities. Instead trust acts as a trigger …