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作者：Durante, Ruben; Mastrorocco, Nicola; Minale, Luigi; Snyder, James M.
作者单位：National University of Singapore; University of Bologna; Universidad Carlos III de Madrid; Harvard University; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：We use novel survey data from Italy to shed light on key questions regarding the measurement of social capital and the use of social capital indicators for empirical work. Our data cover a sample of over 600,000 respondents interviewed between 2000 and 2015. We identify four distinct components of social capital-(i) social participation, (ii) political participation, (iii) general trust and (iv) trust in institutions-and examine how they relate to each other. We then study how each dimension o...
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作者：Campolmi, Alessia; Fadinger, Harald; Forlati, Chiara
作者单位：University of Verona; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; University of Southampton
摘要：Should trade agreements constrain domestic policies? We analyse this question using a model with monopolistic competition and constant-elasticity-of-substitution demand. We develop a welfare decomposition to show that welfare changes induced by trade and domestic policies can be decomposed into consumption and production efficiencies and terms-of-trade effects. We analyse the reasons to sign trade agreements and compare shallow and deep trade agreements, modelled according to GATT-WTO rules. U...
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作者：De Haas, Ralph; Popov, Alexander
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作者：Listo, Ariel; Saberian, Soodeh; Thivierge, Vincent
作者单位：University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; University of Manitoba; University of Ottawa
摘要：De Haas and Popov (2023) used a forty-eight-country, sixteen-industry and twenty-six-year panel to test how the size and structure of a country's financial sector affect CO2 emissions. This comment revisits the results by correcting two coding errors: failing to cluster the SEs and improperly implementing the generalised method of moments (GMM) estimator. Robust SEs are only significant at 10%, while the magnitudes of the GMM results are reduced by a factor of 2 to 4
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作者：De Haas, Ralph; Popov, Alexander
作者单位：European Bank of Reconstructon & Development; KU Leuven; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; European Central Bank
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作者：Hergueux, Jerome; Algan, Yann; Benkler, Yochai; Fuster-Morell, Mayo
作者单位：Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Harvard University; Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Domain; ETH Zurich; Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) Paris; Harvard University; Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
摘要：Many field public goods are provided by a small number of contributors: the 'superstars' of their respective communities. This paper focuses on Wikipedia, one of the largest online volunteering platforms. Over nine consecutive years, we study the relationship between social preferences-reciprocity, altruism and social image-and field cooperation. Wikipedia editors are quite prosocial on average, and superstars even more so. But while reciprocal and social image preferences strongly relate to c...
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作者：Achard, Pascal; Albrecht, Sabina; Ghidoni, Riccardo; Cettolin, Elena; Suetens, Sigrid
作者单位：Tilburg University; University of Queensland; University of Bologna
摘要：We investigate the effect of exposure to refugees on locals' preferences with regard to ethnic minorities using individual-level panel data from the Netherlands. The data combine self-reported preferences with administrative data on the residential locations of the locals and the refugees. The study period is marked by a sudden inflow of refugees in some neighbourhoods. We find that individuals living close to newly installed refugee facilities developed a more positive attitude towards ethnic...
