Stojetz, Wolfgang; Ferguson, Neil T. N.; Baliki, Ghassan; … - 2024
We study how the stringency of policy measures to counter the COVID-19 pandemic affects individuals' trust in formal … institutions. Drawing on micro-level panel data from Germany spanning an 18-month period from the onset of the pandemic, we show … October 2020, six months into the pandemic, when stringency measures in Germany started to increase again. For the early stage …