Honesty, trust and economic growth - A cross-cultural comparison of western industrialized countries
Honesty, trust and economic growth - A cross-cultural comparison of western industrialized countries
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诚实、信任与经济增长——西方工业化国家的跨文化比较
DOI：
10.1024//0044-3514.32.3.189
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发表时间：
2001
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van der Geert Vegt
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作者：
D. Fetchenhauer;van der Geert Vegt
摘要：本文从心理学的角度研究了经济增长率的跨国差异。基于社会资本理论，本文认为：1）金融诚信与金融信任在国家层面上是正相关的; 2）一个国家的金融诚信水平越高，交易成本越低，经济增长越快。使用1981年和1990年世界价值调查的数据，这些假设得到了经验证实。社会资本的影响（即，即使控制了一些相关变量，如国民生产总值、城市化、经济不平等或农业在国内生产总值中的比例，但金融诚信和信任（金融诚信和信任）对经济增长的影响仍然强劲而巨大。因此，经济心理学似乎值得进一步探索心理决定因素（如信任和诚实）对经济增长或财富等宏观经济变量的影响。
Summary: This article investigates cross-country differences in economic growth rates from a psychological perspective. Based on social capital theory it is argued that 1) financial honesty and trust are positively correlated with each other when they are aggregated on a country level and that 2) a high level of financial honesty and trust in a given country reduces transaction costs and thus stimulates economic growth. Using data from the World-Value-Surveys in 1981 and 1990 these hypotheses are empirically confirmed. The influence of social capital (i.e., financial honesty and trust) on economic growth was robust and substantial even if a number of relevant variables like gross national product (GNP), urbanization, economic inequality or the proportion of agriculture in gross domestic product were controlled. Thus, it seems worthwhile for economic psychology to further explore the influence of psychological determinants (like trust and honesty) on macroeconomic variables like economic growth or wealth.