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    Title: Urban Growth, Uninsured Risk and the Rural Origins of Aggregate Volatility  Author(s): POELHEKKE, Steven Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO Abstract: The level of urbanization has increased by over 5 percentage points per decade outside the developed world since 1960. Rapid urbanization was accompanied by fast economic growth and job creation in most parts of the ...
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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 ...