Browsing Department of Economics (ECO) by Subject "culture"

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Browsing Department of Economics (ECO) by Subject "culture"

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    Title: The Right Amount of Trust  Author(s): BUTLER, Jeffrey V.; GIULIANO, Paola; GUISO, Luigi Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO Abstract: A vast literature has investigated the relationship between trust and aggregate economic performance. We investigate the relationship between individual trust and individual economic performance. We find that individual ...
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    Title: Long Term Persistence  Author(s): GUISO, Luigi; SAPIENZA, Paola; ZINGALES, Luigi Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO Abstract: Is social capital long lasting? Does it affect long term economic performance? To answer these questions we test Putnam’s conjecture that today marked differences in social capital between the North and South of Italy were ...
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    Title: Social Capital as Good Culture  Author(s): GUISO, Luigi; SAPIENZA, Paola; ZINGALES, Luigi Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO Abstract: To explain the extremely long-term persistence (more than 500 years) of positive historical experiences of cooperation (Putnam, 1993), we model the intergenerational transmission of priors about the trustworthiness of ...