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Social capital and collusion : the case of merchant guilds
Dessí, Roberta; Olgivie, Sheilagh - 2003
Merchant guilds have been portrayed as social networks that generated beneficial social capital by sustaining shared norms, effectively transmitting information, and successfully undertaking collective action. This social capital, it is claimed, benefited society as a whole by enabling rulers to...
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Guilds, efficiency, and social capital : evidence from German proto-industry
Ogilvie, Sheilagh C. - 2002
This paper analyzes an early modern German economy to test alternative theories about guilds. It finds little evidence to support recent hypotheses arguing that guilds corrected market failures relating to product quality, training, and innovation. But it finds that guilds were social networks...
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The interactions of social norms about climate change : science, institutions and economics
Cabrales, Antonio; García, Manu; Ramos Muñoz, David; … - 2022
We study the evolution of interest about climate change between different actors of the population, and how the interest of those actors affect one another. We first document the evolution individually, and then provide a model of cross influences between them, that we then estimate with a VAR....
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Social capital and crises with an application to Iceland
Thorvaldur Gylfason - 2015
Economic growth is propelled in part by the accumulation of different kinds of capital, including social capital in its several guises. This paper considers the interplay between financial crises and various aspects of social capital which, if it is allowed to depreciate, can undermine economic...
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What do lost wallets tell us about survey measures of social capital?
Tannenbaum, David; Cohn, Alain; Zünd, Christian Lukas; … - 2020
capital - especially questions concerning generalized trust or generalized morality - are strongly and significantly …
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Behavioural responses to unfair institutions : experimental evidence on rule compliance, norm polarisation, and trust
Columbus, Simon; Feld, Lars P.; Kasper, Matthias; … - 2023
and social norms, and trust. In a preregistered online experiment (n = 1,038), we find that biased institutions reduce … compared to no enforcement. We also find that social heterogeneity lowers average trust and induces ingroup favouritism in … trust. Finally, we find consistent evidence of peer effects: higher levels of peer compliance raise future compliance and …
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Deviant or wrong? : the effects of norm information on the efficacy of punishment
Bicchieri, Cristina; Dimant, Eugen; Xiao, Erte - 2021
of social norms and their interplay with weak punishment in the context of a trust game. Across six conditions, we …
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The sociology of cartels
Haucap, Justus; Heldman, Christina - 2022
allow them to establish trust and ensure cooperation. We analyze 15 German cartels, focusing on the individual participants …
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Public discourse and socially responsible market behavior
Bartling, Björn; Valero, Vanessa; Weber, Roberto A.; … - 2020
We investigate the causal impact of public discourse on socially responsible market behavior. We conduct laboratory market experiments with products that differ in their production costs and social impact, and provide market actors and impacted third parties with the opportunity to discuss...
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Does social capital matter? : a study of hit-and-run in US counties
Castriota, Stefano; Rondinella, Sandro; Tonin, Mirco - 2022
We investigate the relationship between social capital and the decision to flee after a fatal road accident. This event is unplanned, and the decision is taken under great emotional distress and time pressure, thus providing a test of whether social capital matters for behaviour in extreme...
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