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Co-managing common pool resources : do formal rules have to be adapted to traditional ecological norms
Vollan, Björn; Prediger, Sebastian; Frölich, Markus - 2013
We examine the effectiveness of three democratically chosen rules that alleviate the coordination and cooperation … limitation of livestock numbers. All rules were designed in a way that facilitated cooperation or coordination of actions. The … not sufficient for high rule compliance and an overall enhancement in cooperation. Rules turned out to be inefficient if …
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Social networks and the process of "globalization"
Duernecker, Georg; Vega-Redondo, Fernando - 2012
We propose a stylised dynamic model to understand the role of social networks in the phenomenon we call "globalization." This term refers to the process by which even agents who are geographically far apart come to interact, thus being able to overcome what would otherwise be a fast saturation...
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COOPERATION IN LARGE NETWORKS: AN EXPERIMENTAL
Juan Camilo Cárdenas P.; Christian R. Jaramillo H. - UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES-CEDE - 2007
We present a new design of a simple public goods experiment with a large number of players, where up to 80 people in a computer lab have the possibility to connect with others in the room to induce more cooperators to contribute to the public good and overcome the social dilemma. This...
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When the two ends meet : an experiment on cooperation across the Italian North-South divide
Battiston, Pietro; Gamba, Simona - 2016
We study the behavior of individuals coming from different geographic regions of Italy, in a same public good game. We confirm previous findings according to which, faced with the same incentives and experimental conditions, Southern citizens exhibit a lower propensity to cooperate than Northern...
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Will Facebook save or destroy social capital? : an empirical investigation into the effect of online interactions on trust and networks
Sabatini, Fabio; Sarracino, Francesco - 2014
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011527200
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Online social networks and trust
Sabatini, Fabio; Sarracino, Francesco - 2015
We explore how participation in social networking sites (SNS) such as Facebook and Twitter affects the most economically relevant aspect of social capital, trust. We use measures of trust in strangers (or social trust), trust in neighbours and trust in the police. We address endogeneity in the...
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E-participation : social capital and the Internet
Sabatini, Fabio; Sarracino, Francesco - 2014
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010413616
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Will Facebook save or destroy social capital? : an empirical investigation into the effect of online interactions on trust and networks
Sabatini, Fabio; Sarracino, Francesco - 2013
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010222317
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Social Networks
de Martí, Joan - 2009
We survey the literature on social networks by putting together the economics, sociological and physics/applied mathematics approaches, showing their similarities and differences. We expose, in particular, the two main ways of modeling network formation. While the physics/applied mathematics...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153178
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A Typology of Social Capital and Associated Network Measures
Jackson, Matthew O. - 2019
I provide a typology of social capital, breaking it down into seven more fundamental forms of capital: information capital, brokerage capital, coordination and leadership capital, bridging capital, favor capital, reputation capital, and community capital. I discuss how most of these forms of...
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