Trust and corruption: The influence of positive and negative social capital on the economic development in the European Union

Quality and Quantity

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 2829-2846

  Graeff, Peter ^a   Svendsen, Gert Tinggaard ^b  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Corruption; Granger causality; Path model; Social capital; Trust

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879305566     PISSN: 00335177     EISSN: 15737845     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11135-012-9693-4     Document Type: Article

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