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This paper models the dynamic process through which a large society may succeed in building up its social capital by establishing a stable and dense pattern of interaction among its members. In the model, agents interact according to a collection of infinitely repeated Prisoner's Dilemmas played...
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. The equilibrium rents are determined for all firms based on their collateral and bargaining power. When a stable …
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documented, much less is known about private sector rents, partly due to the absence of official statistics on this sector. This … paper uses information from the Estate Agency Rent Survey to construct a proxy for private sector rents in Malta. Using this … index, a specification for private sector rents is specified using an error-correction modelling approach and added to the …
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By studying the interaction between social capital and decentralization, we show that political decentralization can be a source of divergence across heterogeneous regions. In particular, we claim that since the local endowments of social capital display their effect on the economy mainly...
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Studies in the social capital literature have documented two stylised facts: first, a decline in measures of social participation has occurred in many OECD countries. Second, and more recently, the success of social networking sites (SNSs) has resulted in a steep rise in online social...
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Experimental and observational studies have highlighted the importance of agents being conditionally cooperative when facing a social dilemma. We formalize this mechanism in a theoretical model that portrays a small community having joint access to a common pool resource. The diffusion of norms...
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