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 use of SNS by exploiting the variation in the availability of … infrastructures. We find that all the proxies of trust significantly decrease with participation in online networks. We discuss …

increase of trust in business relations does not correlate with the dynamic capabilities. Instead trust acts as a trigger …

examine the data for evidence of the conflict, contact and hunker-down theories espoused by Putman in explaining what happens … of ethnic fractionalization on social capital over time. In addition we find evidence of the conflict theory and no …