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Social Capital and its Role in Production: Does the Depletion of Social Capital Depress Economic Growth?
Bartolini, Stefano; Bonatti, Luigi - Dipartimento di Economia Politica e Statistics, … - 2004
We augment a Solow-Ramsey growth model by including: i) a labor-leisure choice, ii) social capital entering the production functions, iii) negative externalities affecting social capital and increasing with the level of activity, iv) the possibility for economic agents to substitute social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005766515
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Eksperci i narcyzm kulturowy - próba analizy wzajemnych relacji
Klimczuk, Andrzej - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
forms of trust and risk, untransparent social situations and economic, political and cultural globalization. These processes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011163533
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A Theory of Destructive Entrepreneurship
Desai, Sameeksha; Acs, Zoltan J. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Policy interest since the early 1980s has focused in different ways on the creation of a large, productive, taxable economy - in which entrepreneurship plays a role for employment, income growth and innovation. The current understanding of various forms of entrepreneurship remains incomplete,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005051051
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Social Capital
Durlauf, Steven N.; Fafchamps, Marcel - Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), … - 2004
This paper surveys research on social capital. We explore the concepts that motivate the social capital literature, efforts to formally model social capital using economic theory, the econometrics of social capital, and empirical studies of the role of social capital in various socioeconomic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009642418
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Social Attitudes and Economic Development : An Epidemiological Approach
Algan, Yann; Cahuc, Pierre - Sciences économiques, Sciences Po - 2007
. We first show that trust of second-generation Americans is significantly influenced by the country of origin of their … attitudes. We show that trust inherited by second-generation Americans from their country of origins has changed over time. This … result allows us to use the inherited trust of secondgeneration Americans as a time-varying instrument to track back the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010892187
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Do Natural Disasters Enhance Societal Trust?
Toya, Hideki; Skidmore, Mark - CESifo - 2012
In this paper we investigate the long- and short-run relationships between disasters and societal trust. A growing body … determinants of social capital in general, and trust in particular. We present new cross-country and panel data evidence of another … important determinant of trust—the frequency of natural disasters. Frequent naturally occurring events such as storms require …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877834
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The Effect of Income on Trust: the Evidence from 2009 Crisis in Russia
Ananiev, Maxim; Guriev, Sergei - Sciences économiques, Sciences Po - 2014
This paper draws on a natural experiment to identify the relationship between income and trust. We use a unique panel … instrumenting average regional income, we find that the effect of income on generalized social trust (the share of respondents … determinants of trust, we show that 10 percent decrease in income is associated with 5 percentage point decrease in trust. Given …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011273274
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Social Attitudes and Economic Development : An Epidemiological Approach.
Cahuc, Pierre - Sciences Po - 2007
. We first show that trust of second-generation Americans is significantly influenced by the country of origin of their … attitudes. We show that trust inherited by second-generation Americans from their country of origins has changed over time. This … result allows us to use the inherited trust of secondgeneration Americans as a time-varying instrument to track back the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008575207
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Social Capital and Economic Growth Revisited
Hjerppe, Reino - Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus (VATT), Government … - 2003
lowering transaction costs. Trust towards strangers and low level of corruption are examples of high level of social capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005545955
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Social Attitudes and Economic Development: An Epidemiological Approach
Algan, Yann; Cahuc, Pierre - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
. We first show that trust of second-generation Americans is significantly influenced by the country of origin of their … attitudes. We show that trust inherited by second-generation Americans from their country of origins has changed over time. This … result allows us to use the inherited trust of second-generation Americans as a time-varying instrument to track back the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124005