In this issue we feature 9 current papers on the theme of social capital:

1. Does trust mean giving and not risking? Experimental evidence from the trust game - Garapin, A.; Muller, L.; Rahali, B.

2. Spillovers in networks of user generated content: Evidence from 23 natural experiments on Wikipedia - Kummer, Michael E.

3. Genesis and Persistence of Trust in Banks - Ingrid Groessl; Rolf von Luede; Jan Fleck

4. Local Clusters of Entrepreneurs -neighborhood peer effects in entrepreneurship? Andersson, Martin; Larsson , Johan P.

5. Do inventors talk to strangers? On proximity and collaborative knowledge creation - Riccardo Crescenzi; Max Nathan; Andrés Rodríguez-Pose

6. Does education or underlying human capital explain liberal economic attitudes? John V.C. Nye; Sergiy Polyachenko

7. Optimal policy and the role of social contacts in a search model with heterogeneous workers - Yuliia Stupnytska

8. Informal loans in Russia: credit rationing or borrower’s choice? - Maria Semenova; Victoria Rodina

9. Does Patience Matter for Marriage Stability? Some Evidence from Italy - De Paola, Maria; Gioia, Francesca

Edited by: Fabio Sabatini, Universita' la Sapienza

Issue date: 2013-12-06

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