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Using the Worldwide COVID-19 Attitudes and Beliefs dataset covering 108,918 respondents from 178 countries, the paper examines the determinants of public trust in governments during the COVID-19. It is found that older and healthy people trust more to their governments. Education is negatively...
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Social trust is linked to many desirable economic and social outcomes. Using new data from a representative sample of 2,668 Swedish expatriates, we examine the robustness of high social trust in countries with different levels of institutional quality. The results suggest that individual trust...
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the most suffered the biggest loss in confidence in institutions, particularly in trust in government and the financial … sector. Finally, analysis of several repeated cross-sections of confidence within U.S. states yields similar qualitative …
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diverse factors might affect people’s institutional confidence in China and Taiwan. The empirical results reveal that Chinese … have higher degrees of trust toward both public and private institutions. Additionally, Chinese have higher confidence in … ones. We also find that Chinese confidence in public institutions is associated with younger generation, better education …
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The aim of this paper is to explore under which conditions institutional quality leads to lower corruption. A model of a simple economy where firms both chose between bribing or not bribing bureaucrats to avoid costs and between entering the official or unofficial economy shows that the effects...
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Several previous studies have explored the relationship between trust and socio-economic conditions but do not attempt to examine channels through which the relation operates. In this paper, we examine how political fractionalization mitigates the positive relationship between trust institutions...
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This paper studies the trust-based efficiency gains in public sector with focus on transitional economies. We conducted a survey of public buyers in Russia and Slovakia in 2020. The results show that the generalized trust is positively related to procurement efficiency, though this effect is...
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