Moving on from [Coleman, J.S., 1990. Foundations of Social Theory. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, London] and [Putnam, R.D., Leonardi, R., Nanetti, R.Y., 1993. Making Democracy Work Civic Traditions in Modern Italy. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, Chichester], an ever-growing literature claims that repeating trustful interactions in the economy do sediment ...

Ethnic diversity is generally associated with less social capital and lower levels of trust. However, most empirical evidence for this relationship is focused on generalized trust, rather than more theoretically appropriate measures of groupbased trust. This paper instead evaluates the relationship between ethnic diversity – at both national and local levels – and the degree to which coethnics ...

It is known that the variational inequality problem (VIP) can be converted to a differentiable unconstrained optimization problem via a merit function first considered by Peng and later studied further by Yamashita, Taji and Fukushima. This merit function, called the D-gap function, though is differentiable, is not twice differentiable and its generalized Hessian with existing definitions is ve...

The paper investigates whether generalized trust in government varies among ethnic groups a society. Theories on predominantly explain such institutional by the capabilities and intentions of trusted actors research into is mostly done at individual level measuring characteristics trustee one have explanatory power. Meanwhile this analyzes macro (country) level. Based comparative study 29 count...

Agile Software Development Process (ASDP) has been adopted by many software industries. There exist various methods based on ASDP. Agile methods (AMs) are used mostly in small and low critical projects due to lack of generalized practices. Limited applicability of AMs in distributed environment, life critical system, contract projects and large complex application generated the strong need of g...

We present new evidence on how generalized trust is formed. Unlike previous studies, we look at the explanatory power of economic institutions, use newer data, incorporate more countries, and instrumental variables to handle causality problem. A central result that legal structure security property rights (area 2 Economic Freedom Index) increase trust. The idea a market economy, building volunt...

The COVID-19 pandemic represents an enormous challenge for healthcare systems around the globe. Using original panel survey data case of Germany, this article studies how specific trust in system to cope with crisis has evolved during course and whether form is associated general political trust. finds strong evidence a positive robust association between generalized performance perceptions reg...