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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010781888
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Does Social Capital Create Trust? Evidence from a Community of Entrepreneurs
Sabatini, Fabio - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009
Which kind of social capital fosters the diffusion of development-oriented trust? This paper carries out an empirical …), and different forms of trust (knowledge-based trust, social trust, trust towards public services and political … the main factors fostering the diffusion of social trust among entrepreneurs are the perception that the local community …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005008020
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Trust and Fiscal Performance: A Panel Analysis with Swiss Data
Torgler, Benno; Schaltegger, Christoph A. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005
to contribute also an adequate share to the community. In such a situation trustworthiness of a government and trust in a … government is high. This paper provides empirical evidence that trust is crucial for fiscal performance using data for the full … sample of Swiss cantons over the 1981-2001 period. In cantons with high levels of trust, the level of indebtedness is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005423218
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The Empirics of Social Capital and Economic Development: A Critical Perspective
Sabatini, Fabio - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006
This paper provides an introduction to the concept of social capital, and carries out a critical review of the empirical literature on social capital and economic development. The survey points out six main weaknesses affecting the empirics of social capital. Identified weaknesses are then used...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005230901
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How Homophily Affects Learning and Diffusion in Networks
Golub, Benjamin; Jackson, Matthew O. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009
We examine how three different communication processes operating through social networks are affected by homophily - the tendency of individuals to associate with others similar to themselves. Homophily has no effect if messages are broadcast or sent via shortest paths; only connection density...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005008021
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Naïve Learning in Social Networks: Convergence, Influence and Wisdom of Crowds
Jackson, Matthew O.; Golub, Benjamin - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2007
social influence changes when some agents redistribute their trust, and we provide a complete characterization of the social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005423267
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Opinion Dynamics and Wisdom under Conformity
Buechel, Berno; Hellmann, Tim; Kölßner, Stefan - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2014
We study a dynamic model of opinion formation in social networks. In our model, boundedly rational agents update opinions by averaging over their neighbors' expressed opinions, but may misrepresent their own opinion by conforming or counter-conforming with their neighbors. We show that an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010781882
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Bilingualism and Communicative Benefits
Weber, Shlomo; Gabszewicz, Jean; Ginsburgh, Victor - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2008
We examine patterns of acquiring non-native languages in a model with two languages and two populations with heterogeneous learning skills, where every individual faces a binary choice of learning the foreign language or refraining from doing so. We show that both interior and corner linguistic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005230925
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The Fragility of Social Capital
Sabatini, Fabio; Antoci, Angelo; Sodini, Mauro - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009
parameters representing the relevance of social interaction and trust in well-being and production. When material consumption and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005008018
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Does Social Capital Mitigate Precariousness?
Sabatini, Fabio - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2008
There is a surprising gap in the economic literature on social capital. First, we lack studies addressing the effects of social capital on those facets of development that can contribute in making growth more sustainable in the long run, like, for example, human development and social cohesion....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005008024