Trust and growth: A shaky relationship

Empirical Economics

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 251-274

  Berggren, Niclas ^a   Elinder, Mikael ^b   Jordahl, Henrik ^a,c  

^a Stockholm School of Economics   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS IFN   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Growth; Outliers; Robustness; Social capital; Trust

Indexed keywords

ECONOMETRICS; ESTIMATION METHOD; GROWTH RATE; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; OUTLIER; SOCIAL CAPITAL; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 51649106465     PISSN: 03777332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00181-007-0158-x     Document Type: Article

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