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Social capital, economic growth and public policy

Restrepo, Piedad Patricia - Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas - 1998

The concept of social capital has gained importance within economic studies only until the present decade. This article analyses the origin and evolution of the concept of social capital, it also establishes its connection with the economic growth of nations basically through two ways: that...

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Addressing Extreme Poverty in a Sustainable Manner: Evidence from CFPR programme

Das, Narayan C; Misha, Farzana A - eSocialSciences - 2010

determination, confidence, social network, asset management skill, and hard work of the participant women are the key factors for …

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Trust: The Importance of Distinguishing between Different Actors and Dimensions

de Jonge, Janneke; van Trijp, J.C.M.; Renes, Reint Jan; … - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2006

between consumer confidence in the safety of food in general and consumer trust in particular institutions and organisations …. The first aim of the study was to develop and validate a scale to measure general consumer confidence in the safety of … study was to investigate to what extent general consumer confidence in the safety of food was related to consumer trust in …

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What do Sentiment Surveys Measure?

Roberts, Ivan; Simon, John - Reserve Bank of Australia - 2001

. On a more positive note, we find that the Roy Morgan consumer confidence rating, NAB actual business conditions, NAB … confidence surveys (which asks about anticipated personal financial conditions over the coming year) also appears to have some …

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TRUST OF MODERNITY, MODERNITY OF TRUST. CONSIDERATIONS AND RESEARCH HYPOTHESIS

CONTE, MASSIMO - EconWPA - 2005

THE DEVELOPMENT SOCIAL RELATIONSHIP IN OUR TIMES IMPOSE A GROWING IMPORTANCE TO 'TRUST' AS A RESOURCE BETWEEN PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP AS BETWEEN PERSONS AND COMPLEX SOCIAL SYSTEM. THE MAIN FEATURE OF MODERNITY IN SOCIAL CONNECTIONS IS GIVEN BY THE SPREAD OF A 'TIME/SPACE' DISTANCE. THE INCREASING...

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Confidence-Enhanced Performance

Compte, Olivier; Postlewaite, Andrew - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2001

There is ample evidence that emotions affect performance. Positive emotions can improve performance, while negative ones may diminish it. For example, the fears induced by the possibility of failure or of negative evaluations have physiological consequences (shaking, loss of concentration) that...

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Multi-attribute Analysis of Confidence, Convenience and Price Functions of Customers of Financial Services Firms: a GLS Systems Model

Rao, Ananth - EconWPA - 2005

The purpose of the study is to examine significant attributes of customers for explaining the level of confidence … the satisfaction and confidence of customers across FSFs. Results indicate that: core, tangible and relational attributes …’ confidence and convenience functions had a reliability of 92 to 94 percent while the value function had a reliability of 74 …

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THE AGGREGATE OPINION OF SEVERAL EXPERTS IN THE FUZZY AND PERT METHODOLOGIES

Cruz Rambaud, Salvador; García Pérez, José - In: Fuzzy Economic Review VI (2001) 2, pp. 23-49

methodology, we define the bet value (which we identify with the mean) and we deduce its expression by means of the confidence …

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Emotions, competence and confidence in choice under uncertainty

MAFFIOLETTI, Anna; SANTONI, Michele - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2007

subadditivity). There is also evidence that emotions, actual competence and confidence positively affect the possibility effect …

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The Effect of Adolescent Experience on Labor Market Outcomes: The Case of Height

Persico, Nicola; Postlewaite, Andrew; Silverman, Dan - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2003

Taller workers receive a wage premium, and the disparity in wages is similar in magnitude to the race and gender gaps. We exploit the variation in an individual’s height over time to explore the ways in which height affects wages. Specifically, we show that for white males the effect of adult...

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