Social capital, knowledge and innovation
Essential readings
Antoci, A., Sabatini, F., Sodini, M. (2011). The Solaria Syndrome: Social Capital in a Hypertechnological Growing Economy. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. In press.
We develop a dynamic model to analyze the sources and the evolution of social participation and...
Antoci, F., Sabatini, F., Sodini, M. (2012). See You on Facebook! A framework for analyzing the role of computer-mediated interaction in the evolution of social capital. Journal of Socio-Economics, DOI:j.socec.2012.04.024
Empirical studies have documented a decline in indicators of social participation in the last...
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Akçomak, S., ter Weel, B. (2009). Social capital, innovation and growth: Evidence from Europe. European Economic Review, 53 (5), 544-567
This paper investigates the interplay between social capital, innovation and per capita income...
Antoci, F., Sabatini, F., Sodini, M. (2011). Economic growth, technological progress and social capital: the inverted U hypothesis. Metroeconomica
We set up a theoretical framework to analyze the possible role of economic growth and technological...
Chaim F., Gandal, N. (2008). Microstructure of Collaboration: The Network of Open Source Software. Working Papers 08-01, NET Institute
The open source model is a form of software development with source code that is typically made...
Chaim F., Gandal, N. (2010). Direct and Indirect Knowledge Spillovers: The 'Social Network' of Open Source Projects. RAND Journal of Economics, forthcoming
Knowledge spillovers are a central part of knowledge accumulation. The paper focuses on spillovers...
Demange, G, (2010). Sharing information in Web communities. Games and Economic Behavior 68(2), 580-601
The paper investigates information sharing communities. The environment is characterized by the...
Fershtman, C., Gandal, N. (2011). A Brief Survey of the Economics of Open Source Software. In Blume, L., Durlauf, S. (Eds), The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics
The open source model is a form of software development in which the source code is made available...
Guiso, L., Sapienza, P-, Zingales, L. (2006). Does Culture Affect Economic Outcomes? Journal of Economic Perspectives 20(2): 23-48
Until recently, economists have been reluctant to rely on culture as a possible determinant of...
Guiso, L., Sapienza, P., Zingales, L. (2004). The role of social capital in financial development. American Economic Review 94(3): 526–556.
To identify the effect of social capital on financial development, we exploit social capital...
Guiso, L., Sapienza, P., Zingales, L. (2015). The value of corporate culture. Journal of Financial Economics 117(1): 60-76.
We study which dimensions of corporate culture are related to a firm׳s performance and why. We find...
Ljunge, M. (2012). Trust drives Internet use. University of Copenhagen Dept. of Economics Discussion Paper N. 12-09
This paper estimates the effect of trust on internet use by studying the general population as well...
McGettigan, T. (2011). Good Science: The Pursuit of Truth and the Evolution of Reality. Lanham: Lexington Books
Drawing upon a sequence of the most important breakthroughs in the history of science, Timothy...
Pigliaru, F., Mauro, L. (2011). Social Capital, Institutions and Growth: Further Lessons from the Italian Regional Divide. European Regional Science Association Conference Paper No. 11p1866
Since Putnam's work on social capital, the Italian regional case has been a very rich source of...
Yamamura, E. (2009). Dynamics of socialnext term trust and human previous termcapitalnext term in the learning process: The case of the Japan garment cluster in the period 1968–2005. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 72 (1), 377-389
This paper examined the ways and the extent to which human capital and social trust are associated...