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The role of social capital in the Transdanubian winery networks

Brányi, Árpád; Józsa, László - In: Journal of economics & management 19 (2015) 1, pp. 78-94

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Growth aspirations and social capital : young firms in a post-conflict environment

Efendic, Adnan; Mickiewicz, Tomasz M.; Rebmann, Anna - 2013

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Social connectedness and generalized trust : a longitudinal perspective

Sturgis, Patrick; Patulny, Roger; Allum, Nick; Buscha, Franz - 2012

Social, or 'generalized', trust refers to beliefs that people hold about how other people in society will in general act towards them. Can people in general be trusted? Or must one be careful in dealing with people? Research on the antecedents of social trust has typically relied on...

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Exclusive intermediation

Fainmesser, Itay - 2014

In this paper, we argue that an important function fulfilled by intermediaries is to facilitate trust by enabling social pressure towards the enforcement of informal agreements. To that end, we develop a new model that uses network theory to show that intermediaries who have exclusivity over a...

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Do acquaintances and friends make us learn? : social capital and lifelong learning in Germany

Thum, Anna-Elisabeth; Bablavy, Miroslav - 2014

This paper examines the relationship between social capital and adult learning. We test this association empirically using measures of various types of social capital and adult learning based on the German Socioeconomic Panel. We use predetermined measures of social capital to exclude social...

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How does social capital reduce the size of the shadow economy?

Lee, Dongwon - In: Global economic review 42 (2013) 3, pp. 251-268

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An empirical assessment of individual-level determinants of social capital in Central European countries

Mondéjar Jiménez, José; Mondéjar-Jiménez, Juan-Antonio - In: Journal of East European management studies : JEEMS 16 (2011) 3, pp. 237-250

und verschiedenen Maßzahlen von Sozialkapital in mehreren zentraleuropäischen Ländern durch. Das Modell zieht den … Datensatz des World Values Survey heran und misst drei Hauptdimensionen von Sozialkapital (Vertrauen in Institutionen … Herangehensweise, relevante Informationen über die Bestimmungsgröße von Sozialkapital und über die Schlüsselrolle von Vertrauen in …

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Generalized trust and regional innovation activity

Schild, Christopher-Johannes - 2012 - This version: August 2013

For a cross-section of 123 European regions, we find evidence for a positive effect of generalized trust on regional innovation activity. We aim to identify causal effects by using instrumental variables from climate and soil data, drawing from recent literature on the effects of climate on...

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Relationship between trust and gender inequality

Gur, Nurullah - In: The empirical economics letters : a monthly … 12 (2013) 3, pp. 311-317

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Who trusts Berlusconi? : an econometric analysis of the role of television in the political arena

Sabatini, Fabio - 2011

This paper contributes to the literature by carrying out the first econometric investigation into the role of television in the formation of political consensus in Italy. Based on probit and instrumental variables estimates, we find trust in television to be the most significant predictor of...

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