The Capitalia sample survey of manufacturing firms in Italy represents a potentially important source of panel data on Italian firms. To date 8 waves have been released the most recent of which takes the survey upto the year 2000. In each wave, data is collected for a three year period and...

Trust and trustworthiness are important components of social capital and much attention has been devoted to their correct evaluation. In this paper, we argue that individuals' trust and trustworthiness are strongly dependent on the level of trust and trustworthiness of the social group in which...