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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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Civic Capital as the Missing Link

Guiso, Luigi; Sapienza, Paola; Zingales, Luigi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

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Social Capital as Good Culture

Guiso, Luigi; Sapienza, Paola; Zingales, Luigi - Department of Economics, European University Institute - 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 …

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Social Capital as Good Culture

Guiso, Luigi; Sapienza, Paola; Zingales, Luigi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

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The Role of Social Capital in Financial Development

Guiso, Luigi - 2008

To identify the effect of social capital on financial development, we exploit social capital differences within Italy. In high-social-capital areas, households are more likely to use checks, invest less in cash and more in stock, have higher access to institutional credit, and make less use of...

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