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Karos, Dominik - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013

Given a simple game, a power configuration specifies the power of each player in each winning coalition. We introduce a … new power configuration which takes into account bargaining among players in coalitions. We show that under very weak … conditions on a bargaining solution there is a power configuration which is stable with respect to renegotiations. We further …

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Building Up Social Capital in a Changing World: A Network Approach

Vega-Redondo, Fernando - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003

This paper models the dynamic process through which a large society may succeed in building up its “social capital” by establishing a stable and dense pattern of interaction among its members. In the model, agents interact according to a collection of infinitely repeated Prisoner’s...

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Environmental Participation and Environmental Motivation

Torgler, Benno; Valiñas, María A. García; Macintyre, … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2008

We explore whether environmental motivation affects environmental behavior by focusing on volunteering. The paper first introduces a theoretical model of volunteering in environmental organizations. In a next step, it tests the hypothesis working with a large micro data set covering 32 countries...

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Trust and Fiscal Performance: A Panel Analysis with Swiss Data

Torgler, Benno; Schaltegger, Christoph A. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005

Citizens are willing to abandon their short-term financial interest in free-riding considerably, if governments act in their interest, if procedures of the public decisions-making process are felt to be fair and if other fellow-citizens have to contribute also an adequate share to the community....

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Varieties of Trust

Uslaner, Eric M. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005

There are multiple dimensions of trust. The standard meaning I call "strategic trust." But more important is "moralistic trust," which does not stem from experience, but rather is learned early in life and is largely stable over time. Moralistic trust leads people to do good works such as...

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Social Capital, R&D and Industrial Districts

Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Cainelli, Giulio; Mancinelli, … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005

The main idea behind this paper is that social capital is not, as generally suggested by the socio-economic literature, an individual attitude towards something which does not imply privately appropriable economic benefits. Actually, SC might and should be interpreted as a public component of an...

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Social Capital and Labour Productivity in Italy

Sabatini, Fabio - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

This paper carries out an empirical assessment of the relationship between social capital and labour productivity in small and medium enterprises in Italy. By means of structural equations models, the analysis investigates the effect of different aspects of the multifaceted concept of social...

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E-participation: Social Capital and the Internet

Sabatini, Fabio; Sarracino, Francesco - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 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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The Transmission of Sustainable Harvesting Norms When Agents Are Conditionally Cooperative

Richter, Andries; Grasman, Johan - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013

Experimental and observational studies have highlighted the importance of agents being conditionally cooperative when facing a social dilemma. We formalize this mechanism in a theoretical model that portrays a small community having joint access to a common pool resource. The diffusion of norms...

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The Determinants of Individuals’ Attitudes Towards Preventing Environmental Damage

Torgler, Benno; Garcia-Valiñas, Maria A. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005

This paper investigates empirically the determinants of individuals’ attitudes towards preventing environmental damage in Spain using data from the World Values Survey and European Values Survey for the periods 1990, 1995 and 1999/2000. Compared to many previous studies, we present a richer...

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