Standard theoretical arguments suggest that republics ought to grow faster than monarchies and experience lower transitional costs following reforms. We employ a panel of 27 countries observed from 18202000 to explore whether regime types and institutional reforms have differential growth...

In arguing that borders not only should be understood as economic barriers to trade, but also <p> as cultural barriers to interaction, this paper attempts to operationalize a broader interpretation of <p> borders with regards to economic cross-cultural integration. Thus, by formalizing the cultural <p>...</p></p></p>

What are the roots of social capital and how can it be measured and built? Social capital is considered as a new production factor which must be added to the conventional concepts of human and physical capital. Social capital is productive because it increases the level of trust in a society and...

The transition of the »Old Communist« countries of East and Central Europe has been disappointingly slow given the amount of physical and human capital available at the start of the <p> transition. We argue that this slowness is caused by the lack of social capital, which is an <p> important factor...</p></p>

The transistion of the "Old Communist" countries of East and Central Europe has been disappointingly slow given the amount of physical and human capital available at the start of the transition. We argue that this slowness is caused by the lack of social capital, which is an important factor of...

In order to explain excess co-operation in the one-shot prisoner's dilemma game, we first question the standard assumption of stable and selfish preferences by introducing the concept of social capital. This analysis leads to a model that explains excess co-operation through an accumulation of...

The purpose of this paper is to suggest a standard method of measurement for social capital. Various <p> authors have investigated the influence of social capital on economic growth but still social capital has <p> not been measured in any satisfactory way. So far, each survey has used its own ad hoc...</p></p>

We develop a two-sector model to analyze which kind of social <p> organization generates trust. Social capital is de…ned as trust. We examine two <p> communities: the bedroom community in which people commute long distance <p> to work and the virility community in which people do not commute to work. <p>...</p></p></p></p>

We study how trust is generated in society. In a two-sector <p> model, we analyze two communities. In the bonding community people do not <p> trust people outside their regular networks. In the bridging community people <p> choose to trust strangers when they meet them. The hypothesis is that when <p> trust...</p></p></p></p>

We hypothesize, that power centralisation in a political system leads to more corruption due to the <p> monopoly power status of bureaucrats. Corruption again would then lead to a lower level of social capital, <p> here measured as trust, and slow down economic growth even further. Indeed, when...</p></p>