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What is Social Capital? The Determinants of Trust and Trustworthiness
Glaeser, Edward L.; Laibson, David; Scheinkman, José; … - 2010
Using a sample of Harvard undergraduates, we analyze trust and social capital in two experiments. Trusting behavior and trustworthiness rise with social connection; differences in race and nationality reduce the level of trustworthiness. Certain individuals appear to be persistently more...
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Capital Social, Confiance Et Développement Territorial : Une Étude Appliquée En Kabylie (Social Capital, Trustworthiness and Territorial Development: An Applied Study in Kabylia)...
Perret, Cécile; Abrika, Belaid - 2016
French Abstract: Des organisations informelles sont créées en l’absence d’institutions formelles fortes ou en cas de manque de confiance dans les institutions. Le capital social structurel civil, comme par exemple le système de gouvernance traditionnel des villages kabyles, peut alors se...
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Bowling Alone or Masking Together? The Role of Social Capital in Excess Death Rates from COVID19
Fraser, Timothy; Aldrich, Daniel P.; Page-Tan, Courtney - 2020
Background: Much attention on the spread and impact of the ongoing pandemic has focused on institutional factors such as government capacity along with population level characteristics such as race, income and age. This paper draws on a growing body of evidence that bonding, bridging, and...
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Social trust and the support for universal basic income
Gubello, Michele - 2023
This paper presents a theoretical model showing how political mistrust affects people's preferences for Universal Basic Income (UBI) when its implementation involves a reduction in spending for other public services (welfare retrenchment). The model shows that individuals with lower levels of...
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Social Capital and the Riskiness of Trade Credit
James, Hui L. - 2023
This paper investigates how social capital, defined by the strength of civic norms and the density of social networks, affects firms’ trade credit risk. The results show that social capital is negatively related to accounts receivables that are unlikely to be collected, suggesting social...
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Experimental Evidence on Social Trust and Responsiveness to COVID-19 Mitigation Policies
Wiedemann, Johannes; Goldstein, Daniel A. N. - 2021
Observational evidence suggests that social trust and the closely related concept of social capital play a critical role in compliance with government policy, particularly in regards to public responsiveness to measures intended to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus. We use a survey...
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The Relocation of the Market for Australian Wool, 1880-1939
Ville, Simon - School of Accounting, Economics, and Finance, … - 2002
Between the 1880s and 1930s the international wool auction market shifted decisively from Britain to Australia. A … pastoral agent firms based in Australia who employed their local knowledge, producer contacts, and trade specialisation to … increasingly came from outside Britain, and their contacts with Australia were aided by much improved long distance shipping and …
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Wine's globalization : new opportunities, new challenges
Anderson, Kym; Nelgen, Signe - 2011
The second decade of rapid globalization of the wine industry is assessed using a newly-published statistical compendium of global wine markets. A dozen observations are made from those data offer insights into key new opportunities and challenges associated with recent globalization forces. A...
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Wine complex of the Republik of Moldova and some aspects of the Covid-19 pandemic
Fedorchukova, Svetlana; Gaina, Boris; Kobirman, Galina - In: Agrarian economy and rural development : realities and …, (pp. 203-210). 2020
The coronavirus pandemic has made its own adjustments in all sectors of the national economy and in the social sphere. This year's drought has also negatively impacted the agricultural sector. Viticulture and winemaking, being strategic sectors of the national economy, suffered heavy losses. The...
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