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LE DYNAMISME DES TPE ET PME ET L'éVOLUTION DE L'éCONOMIE ROUMAINE
Noelle, Jubenot Marie -; Marc, Marc de la Villefromoit - In: Annals of Faculty of Economics 1 (2011) special, pp. 113-117
clusters) to boost businesses. …
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CLUSTER POLICIES IN THE EUROPEAN UNION - ENGINES FOR SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND COMPETITIVENESS
Ion, Popa; Cristina, Vlasceanu - In: Annals of Faculty of Economics 1 (2013) 1, pp. 1581-1587
The present article wishes to present the topic of clusters and cluster policies, to highlight their status and role in … the answer to the question: What are clusters what and how can "they" better the performance of the regions that are part … empirical, and in order to better highlight the relationship between clusters, cluster policies and economic development, a …
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Happiness and Financial Satisfaction in Israel : Effects of Religiosity, Ethnicity, and War
van Praag, B.M.S. - 2010
We analyze individual satisfaction with life as a whole and satisfaction with the personal financial situation for Israeli citizens of Jewish and Arab descent. Our data set is the Israeli Social Survey (2006). We are especially interested in the impact of the religions Judaism, Islam and...
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Surfing Alone? The Internet and Social Capital - Evidence from an Unforeseeable Technological Mistake
Bauernschuster, Stefan - 2014
Does the Internet undermine social capital or facilitate inter-personal and civic engagement in the real world? Merging unique telecommunication data with geo-coded German individual-level data, we investigate how broadband Internet affects several dimensions of social capital. One...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013067943
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Diversity, Social Goods Provision, and Performance in the Firm
Ellison, Sara Fisher - 2014
The last decade has seen a growing interest among economists on the effect of diversity on the provision of social goods and the stock of social capital. Indeed, in the workplace, cooperation, trust, and other social goods may be important elements of the smooth functioning of an office, but...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013069250
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Social Capital and the Status Externality
Itaya, Jun-ichi - 2018
This paper investigates how the presence of social capital affects the externality arising from status-seeking preference as a parable for inefficient antagonistic behavior. It is assumed that the stock of social capital is accumulating through joint social interaction between rational...
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Optimal Policy Towards Families with Different Amounts of Social Capital, in the Presence of Asymmetric Information and Stochastic Fertility
Cigno, Alessandro - 2006
We examine the effects of differences in social capital on first and second best transfers to families with children, in an asymmetric information context where the number of births, and the future earning capacity of each child that is born, are random variables. The probability that a couple...
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Social Capital and Crises with an Application to Iceland
Gylfason, Thorvaldur - 2015
Economic growth is propelled in part by the accumulation of different kinds of capital, including social capital in its several guises. This paper considers the interplay between financial crises and various aspects of social capital which, if it is allowed to depreciate, can undermine economic...
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Iceland: How Could This Happen?
Gylfason, Thorvaldur - CESifo - 2014
This paper reviews economic developments in Iceland following its financial collapse in 2008, focusing on causes and consequences of the crash. The review is presented in the context of the Nordic region, with broad comparisons also with developments elsewhere on the periphery of Europe, in...
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Do Natural Disasters Enhance Societal Trust?
Toya, Hideki; Skidmore, Mark - CESifo - 2012
In this paper we investigate the long- and short-run relationships between disasters and societal trust. A growing body research suggests that factors such as income inequality, ethnic fractionalization, and religious heritage are important determinants of social capital in general, and trust in...
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