Structure and Development of Financial Institutions and Links with Trust: Cross-Country Evidence

Arturo Galindo, Cesar Calderon () and Alberto Chong

No 1343, IDB Publications (Working Papers) from Inter-American Development Bank

Abstract: We explore the links between trust and a broad range of financial structure and development measures. Our base sample is a cross section of 48 countries and the analysis covers the period 1980-1994. We use a new World Bank data set that provides the most comprehensive coverage of financial development and structure to this date. We find that trust is correlated with financial depth and efficiency as well as with stock market development. Results hold when using an instrumental variable approach, and they are robust to changes in specification when using a formal Sala-i-Martín sensitivity analysis.

Keywords: WP-444 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001-04
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