What is the long-term effect of organised crime presence on social capital accumulation? By leveraging novel social capital and organised crime data, this study investigates this question within the Italian landscape. In an instrumental variable (IV) setting, we exploit the forced resettlement...

I investigate the effect of social capital on the vaccination decision-making among the French population during the COVID-19 pandemic. To the best of my knowledge, it is the first paper that makes a dynamic analysis on the role of social capital on vaccinations. By utilising geographical...

This paper investigates how different dimensions of social capital and institutional quality are related to innovation activity and its utilisation. For reasons of data availability, previous studies have included mainly patenting data. This study complements the previous studies by analysing...

The paper deals with the process of building social capital as constrained by the availability of public and private services. The purpose is to show that social capital shapes, both in positive and negative terms, the capacity of local institutions to support development projects and...

We explore the role of social capital in the spread of the recent Covid-19 pandemic in independent analyses for Austria, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK. Exploiting within-country variation, we show that a one standard deviation increase in social capital leads to...

Este artículo muestra el nivel de desarrollo alcanzado en el capital social en una empresa de la industria metalmecánica de la región centro del Estado de Coahuila; el capital social, es considerado como la capacidad de un colectivo humano para generar procesos de interacción social que...

This note replicates the analysis of Tabellini (2010) on the relationship between social capital and regional economic growth in Europe, extending that work and the underlying dataset by focusing on the spatial dimension of social capital and introducing a definition of contiguity among European...

We investigate whether the levels of social capital in U.S. counties, as captured by strength of civic norms and density of social networks in the counties, are systematically related to tax avoidance activities of corporations with headquarters located in the counties. We find strong negative...

This paper studies whether civic capital acts an effective restraint against opportunistic behavior in transactions, looking at the degree of outsourcing to external suppliers of services in Italian firms. Our results show that, on average, firms tend to outsource more services where civic...

The concepts of quot;social capitalquot; and quot;networksquot; gain increasing acceptance even in core branches of economics as growth theory and international trade. International organizations have begun to condition credit approval on the availability of social capital in lender communities....