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The Empirics of Social Capital and Economic Development: A Critical Perspective
Sabatini, Fabio - 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/10010312487
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Naïve Learning in Social Networks: Convergence, Influence and Wisdom of Crowds
Jackson, Matthew O.; Golub, Benjamin - 2007
We study learning and influence in a setting where agents communicate according to an arbitrary social network and naïvely update their beliefs by repeatedly taking weighted averages of their neighbors' opinions. A focus is on conditions under which beliefs of all agents in large societies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312406
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Equitable cost-benefit analysis of climate change
Tol, Richard S. J. - 1999
The literature of welfare-maximising greenhouse gas emission reduction strategies pays remarkably little attention to … equity. This paper introduces three ways to consider efficiency and equity simultaneously. The first method, inspired by Kant … and Rawls, maximises net present welfare, without international co-operation, as if all regions share the fate of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608505
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Integrating climate policies in the European environment: A policy report
Carraro, Carlo; Goria, Alessandra - 1999
This report summarises the main ideas, proposals, scientific achievements, consensus and conflicting issues that emerged at the Second EFIEA Policy Workshop, held at Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, Palazzo delle Stelline, Corso Magenta 63, Milan, Italy, March 4th-6th, 1999. EFIEA, the European...
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Is the value of bioprospecting contracts too low?
Markandya, Anil; Nunes, Paulo A. L. D. - 2010
In order to regulate the proliferated bioprospecting and protect the biological diversity in the source countries, the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) established a legal framework for the reciprocal transfer of biological materials between the interested parties in bioprospecting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272381
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An Economic Model for Bioprospecting Contracts
Nunes, Paulo A.L.D.; Ding, Helen; Onofri, Laura - 2007
bioprospecting contracts and patenting on social welfare. The positive welfare impacts delivered by bioprospecting contracts are … and royalty revenues. The negative welfare impact results from the legal creation of a monopoly and the related well …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312374
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An Attempt to Disperse the Italian Interlocking Directorship Network: Analyzing the Effects of the 2011 Reform
Drago, Carlo; Ricciuti, Roberto; Santella, Paolo - 2015
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the effects on the Italian directorship network of the corporate governance reform that was introduced in Italy in 2011 to prevent interlocking directorships in the financial sector. Interlocking directorships are important communication channels among...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011451154
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Formation of Bargaining Networks Via Link Sharing
Priazhkina, Sofia; Page, Frank - 2014
equilibrium exists, sharing always generates maximum social welfare and eliminates the frictions created by the network structure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398384
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A social network analysis of occupational segregation
van der Leij, Marco J.; Buhai, I. Sebastian - 2008
welfare optima. Surprisingly, we find that socially optimal policies involve segregation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270952
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Juvenile delinquency and conformism
Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - 2010
This paper studies whether conformism behavior affects individual outcomes in crime. We present a social network model of peer effects with ex-ante heterogeneous agents and show how conformism and deterrence affect criminal activities. We then bring the model to the data by using a very detailed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272401