Asset Protection Trusts: Trust Law's Race to the Bottom?

What is "Race-To-The-Bottom" Effect On FDI Inflow?

The Race to the Bottom , From the Bottom

The dominant perspective in discussions of labor and environmental standards and globalization is that of North-South competition and its impact on Northern standards. This paper presents an alternative perspective, that of South-South competition to export to the North, and its impact on Southern standards. It develops a simple model of Southern competition on standards, which can begin to pro...

Race to the Top and Race to the Bottom: Tax Competition in Rural China

WHO TRUSTS? The origins of social trust in seven societies

There is a general consensus among contemporary social scientists that social trust is important, as the small flood of recent publications on the topic shows. 1 The interest in trust covers, unusually in the increasingly ABSTRACT: This article identifies six main theories of the determinants of social trust, and tests them against survey data from seven societies, 1999– 2001. Three of the six ...

Who Trusts? The Origins of Social Trust in Seven Nations

This paper identifies six main theories of the determinants of social trust, and tests them against survey data from seven nations, 1999-2001. Three of the six theories of trust fare rather poorly and three do better. First and foremost, social trust tends to be high among citizens who believe that there are few severe social conflicts and where the sense of public safety is high. Second, infor...