Why it matters what people think : beliefs, legal origins and the deep roots of trust

Wahl, Fabian

Why it matters what people think : beliefs, legal origins and the deep roots of trust

dc.contributor.author	Wahl, Fabian	de
dc.date.accessioned	2024-04-08T08:47:10Z
dc.date.available	2024-04-08T08:47:10Z
dc.date.created	2012-07-17
dc.date.issued	2012
dc.description.abstract	This paper analyses the connection between legal origins and generalized trust. Based on recent results of institutions and trust research it argues that legal origins and trust are connected via the beliefs of agents. Next, it develops hypotheses about a complex and self-reinforcing causal relation between both. It then shows empirically that indeed, legal origins and contemporary trust are robustly connected with each other. In a next step, it investigates the deep historical roots of trust to construct proxies for historical trust levels in 1500 AD. By making use of the historical trust scores and information about the exogenous or endogenous introduction of legal origins in certain countries it assess some of the claims about causality made before. Here, it found confirming evidence for the propositions of Aghion et al. (2010), namely that (i) countries for which legal origins are endogenous did develop other legal traditions depending on their ex-ante (historical) trust values and (ii) that the effects of an exogenous introduction of legal origins vary depending on ex-ante trust levels.	en
dc.identifier.swb	36827344X
dc.identifier.uri	https://hohpublica.uni-hohenheim.de/handle/123456789/5608
dc.identifier.urn	urn:nbn:de:bsz:100-opus-7419
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.relation.ispartofseries	FZID discussion papers; 52
dc.rights.license	publ-ohne-pod	en
dc.rights.license	publ-ohne-pod	de
dc.rights.uri	http://opus.uni-hohenheim.de/doku/lic_ubh.php
dc.subject	Trust	en
dc.subject	Legal origins	en
dc.subject	Colonization	en
dc.subject	Institutions	en
dc.subject	Causality	en
dc.subject	Deep rooted factors of development	en
dc.subject.ddc	330
dc.subject.gnd	Institution	de
dc.subject.gnd	Vertrauen	de
dc.title	Why it matters what people think : beliefs, legal origins and the deep roots of trust	de
dc.type.dcmi	Text	de
dc.type.dini	WorkingPaper	de
local.access	uneingeschränkter Zugriff	en
local.access	uneingeschränkter Zugriff	de
local.bibliographicCitation.publisherPlace	Universität Hohenheim	de
local.faculty.number	7	de
local.faculty.number	3	de
local.institute.number	795	de
local.institute.number	520	de
local.opus.number	741
local.series.issueNumber	52
local.series.title	FZID discussion papers
local.university	Universität Hohenheim	de
local.university.faculty	Landesanstalten	de
local.university.faculty	Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences	en
local.university.faculty	Fakultät Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften	de
local.university.institute	Forschungszentrum Innovation und Dienstleistung	de
local.university.institute	Institute for Economics	en
local.university.institute	Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre	de

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