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Portuguese national accounts : a network approach

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The role of clusters in the performance of the Mexican economy

Juarez-Torres, Miriam; Puigvert-Angulo, Jonathan; … - 2022

regions. It identifies 24 clusters and analyzes their geographical distribution, their role in regional growth, the evolution …-oriented clusters have a strong presence in the Northern states of the country, while services-oriented clusters in the Central ones …. Finally, clusters such as plastic products manufacturing; retail and eating services; food and beverage manufacturing; and …

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Economic growth, technological progress, and social capital : the inverted u hypothesis

Antoci, Angelo; Sabatini, Fabio; Sodini, Mauro - 2011

We set up a theoretical framework to analyze the possible role of economic growth and technological progress in the erosion of social capital. Under certain parameters, the relationship between technological progress and social capital can take the shape of an inverted U curve. We show the...

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Who trusts Berlusconi? : an econometric analysis of the role of television in the political arena

Sabatini, Fabio - 2011

This paper contributes to the literature by carrying out the first econometric investigation into the role of television in the formation of political consensus in Italy. Based on probit and instrumental variables estimates, we find trust in television to be the most significant predictor of...

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Do cooperative enterprises create social trust?

Sabatini, Fabio; Modena, Francesca; Tortia, Ermanno - 2012

This paper contributes to the literature by carrying out the first empirical investigation into the role of different types of enterprises in the creation of social trust. Drawing on a unique dataset collected through the administration of a questionnaire to a representative sample of the...

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Natural disasters and social capital formation : the impact of the Great Hanshin-Awaji earthquake

Yamamura, Eiji - 2013

The Great Hanshin-Awaji (Kobe) earthquake struck Japan in 1995, causing devastating damage to the economic landscape of south-central Japan. The earthquake also caused people to realize the importance of social capital in Japan. Based on a large, individual-level database comprising 488,223...

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Will Facebook save or destroy social capital? : an empirical investigation into the effect of online interactions on trust and networks

Sabatini, Fabio; Sarracino, Francesco - 2014

Studies in the social capital literature have documented two stylised facts: first, a decline in measures of social participation has occurred in many OECD countries. Second, and more recently, the success of social networking sites (SNSs) has resulted in a steep rise in online social...

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Online networks and subjective well-being

Sabatini, Fabio; Sarracino, Francesco - 2014

Does Facebook make people lonely and unhappy? Empirical studies have produced conflicting results about the effect of social networking sites (SNS) use on individual welfare. We use a representative sample of the Italian population to investigate how actual and virtual networks of social...

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Online social networks and trust

Sabatini, Fabio; Sarracino, Francesco - 2015

We explore how participation in social networking sites (SNS) such as Facebook and Twitter affects the most economically relevant aspect of social capital, trust. We use measures of trust in strangers (or social trust), trust in neighbours and trust in the police. We address endogeneity in the...

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