Trust in public institutions over the business cycle
By: Betsey Stevenson, Justin Wolfers
Contributors: Wolfers, Justin; National Bureau of Economic Research
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 16891; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 16891.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Description: "We document that trust in public institutions-and particularly trust in banks, business and government-has declined over recent years.  U.S.  time series evidence suggests that this partly reflects the pro-cyclical nature of trust in institutions.  Cross-country comparisons reveal a clear legacy of the Great Recession, and those countries whose unemployment grew the most suffered the biggest loss in confidence in institutions, particularly in trust in government and the financial sector.  Finally, analysis of several repeated cross-sections of confidence within U.S.  states yields similar qualitative patterns, but much smaller magnitudes in response to state-specific shocks"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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