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Reuben, Ernesto; Sapienza, Paola; Zingales, Luigi - 2011

We study experimentally the effect of expectations on whether trust is repaid. Subjects respond with untrustworthy … repayment of trust …

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Chapter 10. Civic Capital as the Missing Link

Guiso, Luigi; Sapienza, Paola; Zingales, Luigi - In: Handbook of social economics : volume 1, (pp. 417-480). 2011

This chapter reviews the recent debate about the role of social capital in economics. We argue that all the difficulties this concept has encountered in economics are due to a vague and excessively broad definition. For this reason, we restrict social capital to the set of values and beliefs...

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Social capital as good culture

Guiso, Luigi (contributor); Sapienza, Paola (contributor); … - 2007

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Social capital as good culture

Guiso, Luigi; Sapienza, Paola; Zingales, Luigi - 2008

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Guiso, Luigi; Sapienza, Paola; Zingales, Luigi - 2007

transmission tends to be biased toward excessively conservative priors. As a result, societies can be trapped in a low-trust … equilibrium. In this context, a temporary shock to the return to trusting can have a permanent effect on the level of trust. We …