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Civic Capital and the Size Distribution of Plants: Short-Run Dynamics and Long-Run Equilibrium

Bürker, Matthias; Minerva, G. Alfredo - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012

We characterize how the size distribution of plants, within narrowly defined industries, changed in Italy over a ten-year time span, and relate this to the stock of civic capital at the provincial level. Data on plant size come from the 1991 and 2001 Italian censuses. Civic capital turns out to...

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Trust and Manipulation in Social Networks

Förster, Manuel; Mauleon, Ana; Vannetelbosch, Vincent J. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2014

neighbors in the social network, can exert effort to manipulate the trust of others, and update their opinions about some common …. We show that manipulation can modify the trust structure and lead to a connected society. Manipulation fosters opinion …

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