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The role of financial information, social capital and reputation in lender decisions

Maier, Michael Shane - 2009

This Thesis contains three essays on the economic behavior of individuals. The first essay, co-authored with Andreas Blume and Douglas DeJong is an experimental investigation into the contribution of cognition in a strategic setting where the goal is to coordinate by choosing different courses...

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Social Capital and Entrepreneurial Performance in Russia: A Panel Study

Batjargal, Bat - 2000

Drawing on the social embeddedness perspective, this paper examines the impact of entrepreneurs' social capital on their firm performance in post-Soviet Russia. Based on face-to-face interviews with 75 Russian entrepreneurs in 1995, and the follow-up study in 1999, the study contrasts the...

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Social Network Capital and Academic Careers

Medicamento, Umberto; Wilson, Paul; Rahman, Tauhidur; … - 2010

Social Network Capital and Academic Careers: The Case of a College of AgricultureABSTRACT The relationship between economic performance and various forms of capital anchors a significant portion of mainstream economic theory and applied economics. Human, physical and financial capital represent...

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Trade-off between Economic Revitalization and Social Capital: Application of Structural Equation Model in Japan

Kunimitsu, Yoji - 2010

An income inequality has been expanded in Japan and some policy is highly needed to revitalize rural areas. This study aims to show causative factors on regional satisfaction level by the estimation of the structural equation model (SEM) with data of each town in Yamagata and Yamaguchi...

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14.662 Labor Economics II, Spring 2005

Autor, David H.; Piore, Michael J. - 2005

The development and evolution of labor market structures and institutions. Particular focus on competing explanations of recent developments in the distribution of wage and salary income and in key institutions and organizational structures. Special attention to theories of worker motivation and...

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Effect of Social Capital on Performance of Smallholder Producer Organizations: The Case of Groundnut Growers in Western Kenya

Wambugu, Stella N.; Okello, Julius Juma; Nyikal, Rose … - 2009

Development literature has recently promoted the use of producer organization in linking farmers to better-paying commodity markets. However, empirical studies find mixed performance of such organizations. This study examines the producer organization’s internal factors that may explain the...

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Foreign Direct Investments as Initiators of Change: The ”Swedmilk” dairy case- Reasons behind the failure

Tuna, Emelj - 2011

Institutional problems and the corruptive use of social capital give ground for misuse ofinstitutional gaps and cause intentional failures for financial benefits. Based on socialcapital theory and transaction cost economics (TCE) this paper describes how theinstitutional environment in the...

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A comparative analysis of the purchase motivations of Fair Trade products: the impact of social capital

De Devitiis, Biagia; D'Alessio, Massimiliano; Maietta, … - 2008

Objective of this paper is to analyse themotivations in the purchase of Fair Trade (FT) foodproducts sold in the World Shops (WS) in order tocharacterize WS consumer profiles according to theethical content of their motivations. A questionnaire hasbeen distributed, at this end, to a sample of...

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FORECASTING: EXPECTATIONS, INTENTIONS, AND CONFIDENCE

Rothschild, David Michael - 2011

), aggregation method (average versus weighted by money, a proxy for confidence), and incentive (not incentive compatible versus … respondents to state their confidence, using my method, which induces the respondents to reveal confidence, there is a sizable and … statically significant positive relationship between confidence and the accuracy of individual-level expectations. This positive …

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The impact of management confidence on capital structure

Oliver, Barry - 2005

management confidence. In a unique sample of US firms that have existed for over 25 years we find management confidence, as … management confidence is higher firms have higher levels of debt. This result is robust to different definitions of leverage and … confidence as well as different model specifications. This confirms the theoretical arguments in behavioural finance that …

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