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Sabatini, Fabio - EconWPA - 2003

Negli anni novanta si è diffusa nelle scienze sociali l’idea che la crescita non sia determinata soltanto da fattori di carattere economico, quali il capitale naturale, il capitale fisico e il capitale umano, ma anche dal tessuto sociale e istituzionale dell’economia. Gli aspetti della...

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Solow or Lucas?: Testing Growth Models Using Panel Data from OECD Countries

Arnold, Jens; Bassanini, Andrea; Scarpetta, Stefano - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2007

convergence and short term dynamics to vary across countries. While there are indeed good reasons to believe in common long … direct investment, the theoretical models imply that the speed of convergence to the steady state differs across countries …, standard dynamic fixed effect specifications, by imposing cross-country homogeneity restrictions on speed of convergence and …

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Does Social Capital Improve Labour Productivity in Small and Medium Enterprises?

Sabatini, Fabio - EconWPA - 2005

This paper carries out an empirical assessment of the relationship between social capital and labour productivity in small and medium enterprises in Italy. By means of structural equations models, the analysis investigates the effect of different aspects of the multifaceted concept of social...

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Does Social Capital Improve Labour Productivity in Small and Medium Enterprises?

Sabatini, Fabio - EconWPA - 2005

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Does Social Capital Improve Labour Productivity in Small and Medium Enterprises?

Sabatini, Fabio - EconWPA - 2005

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The Contribution of Economic Geography to GDP Per Capita

Boulhol, Hervé; Serres, Alain de; Molnár, Margit - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2008

This paper examines how much of the dispersion in economic performance across OECD countries can be accounted for by economic geography factors. More specifically, two aspects of economic geography are examined, namely the proximity to areas of dense economic activity and endowments in natural...

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Have Developed Countries Escaped the Curse of Distance?

Boulhol, Hervé; Serres, Alain de - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2008

There is widespread evidence that a better access to markets contributes to raising income levels. However, no quantification of the impact of distance to markets has been made on the basis of a sample restricted to advanced — and therefore more homogeneous — countries. This paper applies...

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Social Capital, Public Spending and the Quality of Economic Development. The Case of Italy

Sabatini, Fabio - EconWPA - 2005

This paper carries out an empirical assessment of the relationship between social capital and the quality of economic development in Italy. The analysis draws on a dataset collected by the author including about two hundred variables representing different aspects of economic development and...

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Measuring Social Capital in Italy. An Exploratory Analysis

Sabatini, Fabio - EconWPA - 2005

The aim of this paper is to trace a map of Italian local social capital endowments. It focuses on the “structural” dimension of the concept, as identified with social networks. The analysis is based on a dataset collected by the author including about two hundred indicators of five main...

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Social Capital, Public Spending and the Quality of Economic

Sabatini, Fabio - EconWPA - 2005

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