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The Scope of Cooperation: Values and incentives
Tabellini, Guido - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
lead to a unique equilibrium path where external enforcement remains weak and individual values discourage cooperation. …
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Seeds of Distrust: Conflict in Uganda
Rohner, Dominic; Thoenig, Mathias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
We study the effect of civil conflict on social capital, focusing on the experience of Uganda during the last decade. Using individual and county-level data, we document large causal effects on trust and ethnic identity of an exogenous outburst of ethnic conflicts in 2002-05. We exploit two...
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Globalization and Cooperative Relations
Spagnolo, Giancarlo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
. The aversion to intertemporal substitution, a regular feature of real world agents, facilitates cooperation by decreasing …. Access to goods’ markets and ‘money’ may then hinder cooperation by undoing these effects, allowing agents to save and … markets make cooperation even harder to sustain, unless the market interest rate is sufficiently below agents’ discount rate …
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Networks of Relations and Social Capital
Lippert, Steffen; Spagnolo, Giancarlo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
We model networks of relational (or implicit) contracts, exploring how sanctioning power and equilibrium conditions change under different network configurations and information transmission technologies. In our model relations are the links, and the value of the network lies in its ability to...
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Explaining the Black/White Employment Gap: The Role of Weak Ties
Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
The aim of this paper is to provide a new mechanism based on social interactions explaining why minority workers have worse labor-market outcomes than majority workers. Building on Granovetter's idea that weak ties are superior to strong ties for providing support in getting a job, we develop a...
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The Old Boy Network: Gender Differences in the Impact of Social Networks on Remuneration in Top Executive Jobs
Lalanne, Marie; Seabright, Paul - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
Using an original dataset describing the career history of some 16,000 senior executives and members of the non-executive board of US, UK, French and German companies, we investigate gender differences in the use of social networks and their impact on earnings. There is a large gender wage gap:...
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Formation and Persistence of Oppositional Identities
Bisin, Alberto; Patacchini, Eleonora; Verdier, Thierry; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
We develop a dynamic model of identity formation that explains why ethnic minorities may choose to adopt oppositional identities (i.e. some individuals may reject or not the dominant culture) and why this behavior may persist over time. We first show that the prevalence of an oppositional...
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Peer Effects in Education, Sport, and Screen Activities: Local Aggregate or Local Average?
Liu, Xiaodong; Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
We develop two different social network models with different economic foundations. In the local-aggregate model, it is the sum of friends' efforts in some activity that affects the utility of each individual while, in the local-average model, it is costly to deviate from the average effort of...
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Social Interactions and Labour Market Outcomes in Cities
Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
We develop a model where information about jobs is essentially obtained through friends and relatives, i.e. strong and weak ties. Workers commute to a business centre to work and to interact with other people. We find that housing prices increase with the level of social interactions in the city...
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Strong and Weak Ties in Employment and Crime
Calvó-Armengol, Antoni; Verdier, Thierry; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
This paper analyses the interplay between social structure and information exchange in two competing activities, crime and labour. We consider a dynamic model in which individuals belong to mutually exclusive two-person groups, referred to as dyads. There are multiple equilibria. If jobs are...
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