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Surname Diversity, Social Ties and Innovation

Posch, Max; Schulz, Jonathan; Henrich, Joseph - 2023

We study whether interactions between individuals with different skills, expertise and perspectives influenced innovation in U.S. counties from 1850 to 1940. We introduce and validate a new measure of social interactional diversity based on the distribution of surnames: lower surname diversity...

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Homeownership and Social Capital in New Zealand

Roskruge, Matthew James - 2011

Does homeownership affect individual social capital and thereby influence local outcomes? Following DiPasquale and Glaeser, a body of literature suggests that homeownership is positively related to social capital formation. Homeowners have an incentive to engage in the local community in order...

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The Determinants of Individuals' Attitudes Towards Preventing Environmental Damage

Torgler, Benno; Garcia-Valiñas, Maria Angeles - 2013

in Spain using data from the World Values Survey and European Values Survey for the periods 1990, 1995 and 1999 …

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Social Capital, Investments and External Financing

Javakhadze, David - 2018

This study examines the effects of managerial social capital on investment sensitivity to cash flow and Q. Using a … large cross-country sample of companies for the period 1999–2012 and a traditional investment-Q framework, we discover that … with investment sensitivity to Q. We further determine that social capital positively affects the sensitivity of external …

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Does Social Capital Foster Sustainable Investment?

Choy, Siu Kai; Koci, Iva; Wang, Mingzhu - 2022

, especially when acquiring new stocks and investing abroad. We argue that social capital nurtures the investment preferences of … altruistic inclinations in the former and provides mechanisms to punish unsustainable investment behavior in the latter …

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O capital social e o desempenho econômico dos estados brasileiros

Abrahão, Jackson; Figueiredo, Lízia - Centro de Desenvolvimento e Planejamento Regional … - 2013

This study examines whether social capital is an element that has a significant relationship with Brazilian states’ economic performance in the period of 1996 to 2008. The issue is addressed by the ideas of Bourdieu (1980, 1986), Coleman (1988, 1990) and Putnam et al. (1993), considering that...

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Economic growth, technological progress, and social capital : the inverted u hypothesis

Antoci, Angelo; Sabatini, Fabio; Sodini, Mauro - 2011

We set up a theoretical framework to analyze the possible role of economic growth and technological progress in the erosion of social capital. Under certain parameters, the relationship between technological progress and social capital can take the shape of an inverted U curve. We show the...

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Social capital and smart growth of the EU countries

Skrodzka, Iwona - In: Economic and environmental studies : a journal for … 18 (2018) 2, pp. 841-858

Social capital according to OECD definition is networks together with shared norms, values and understandings that facilitate co-operation within or among groups. Currently, social capital is identified as a one of the key factors of economic development. Most of the existing literature focuses...

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Chapter 26. Social Capital

Durlauf, Steven N.; Fafchamps, Marcel - 2005

This chapter surveys research on social capital. We explore the concepts that motivate the social capital literature, efforts to formally model social capital using economic theory, the econometrics of social capital, and empirical studies of the role of social capital in various socioeconomic...

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Natural disasters, growth and institutions : a tale of two earthquakes

Barone, Guglielmo; Mocetti, Sauro - 2013

We examine the impact of natural disasters on economic growth by applying a synthetic control approach. In contrast to previous literature, we adopt a within-country perspective, which allows us to use richer and more comparable data and to better define the geographic area hit by the disaster....

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