nep-soc New Economics Papers
on Social Norms and Social Capital
Issue of 2007‒07‒27
five papers chosen by
Fabio Sabatini
University of Rome, La Sapienza
  1. Network Effects in Risk Sharing and Credit Market Access: Evidence from Istanbul By Adaman, Fikret; Ardic, Oya Pinar; Tuzemen, Didem
  2. Institutions and Behavior: Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Democracy By Pedro Dal Bo; Andrew Foster; Louis Putterman
  3. Monitoring In Teams: A Model and Experiment on the Central Monitor Hypothesis By Stefan Grosse; Louis Putterman; Bettina Rockenbach
  4. Floss (Free/Libre Open Source Software): A Theme For Cultural Differences Study By Ramanuajm, Padmanabha
  5. What Makes a Successful Entrepreneur? Evidence from Brazil By Simeon Djankov; Yingyi Qian; Gerard Roland; Ekaterina Zhuravskaya
  1. By: Adaman, Fikret; Ardic, Oya Pinar; Tuzemen, Didem
    Abstract: It is a truism that households in developing countries that face idiosyncratic income/expenditure shocks may face difficulties in smoothing consumption through formal credit institutions, and hence rely, at least partially, on informal ties. While this issue has been explored extensively in the literature for rural areas, the picture reflecting the urban setting remains relatively uninvestigated. This paper aims to fill this gap by presenting an exclusively designed survey implemented in Istanbul. The results of a multi-stage logit estimation of the survey data indicate that monetary transfers from social networks and formal loans are complements, while general usage of network help implies an increased likelihood of asking for network help for easy and/or favorable access to credit. In addition, material security emerges as the key determinant of both eligibility for and use of a formal loan, and of having network help available in easing the loan approval process by banks.
    Keywords: Social networks; risk sharing; credit market access; Turkey; household survey.
    JEL: C35 O18 Z13 D12 C42
    Date: 2006–12–01
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pra:mprapa:4078&r=soc
  2. By: Pedro Dal Bo; Andrew Foster; Louis Putterman
    Date: 2007
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:bro:econwp:2009-4&r=soc
  3. By: Stefan Grosse; Louis Putterman; Bettina Rockenbach
    Date: 2007
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:bro:econwp:2007-4&r=soc
  4. By: Ramanuajm, Padmanabha
    Abstract: Geert Hofstede presented statistical evidence purporting to identify intercultural co-operation and its importance for survival in his scholarship work “cultures and organizations”. This article presents a study, which describes how differences in national culture can affect or influence the participation of programmers who produce open source software (OSS). The four important dimensions of national cultures considered by Hofstede model namely Power Distance Index (PDI), Individualism Index (IAV), Masculinity-Feminity Index (MAS) and Uncertainty Avoidance Index (UAI) are selected and correlated with the Geographical Distribution of Developers Index (GDD) for testing the above hypothesis. It is suggested that there exists some correlation between the cultural factors and the demographics of programmers who participate in the open source movement. Finally, the manner in which these cultural factors impinge on the incentives of the programmers who are engaged in open source movement by writing codes for free are also discussed.
    Keywords: Open Source Movement; FLOSS; Culture Difference and Hofstede Model
    JEL: K10 L19 L17 L10 K19
    Date: 2007–07–16
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pra:mprapa:4182&r=soc
  5. By: Simeon Djankov (the World Bank); Yingyi Qian (UC Berkeley and CERP); Gerard Roland (UC Berkeley and CEPR); Ekaterina Zhuravskaya (New Economic School/CEFIR and CEPR)
    Abstract: We report the results of a new survey on entrepreneurship in Brazil. In September 2006, we interviewed 400 entrepreneurs and 550 non-entrepreneurs of the same age, gender, education and location in 7 Brazilian cities. The data are used to test three competing hypotheses on entrepreneurship: the role of economic and legal institutions (security of property rights; access to credit); the role of sociological characteristics (family background, social networks); and the role of individual features (attitude towards risk, I.Q., self-confidence) in becoming an entrepreneur. In line with our previous research in China and Russia, we find that sociological characteristics have the strongest influence on becoming an entrepreneur. In contrast, success as an entrepreneur is primarily determined by the individual’s smartness and higher education in the family. Entrepreneurs are not more self-confident than non-entrepreneurs; and overconfidence is bad for business success.
    Date: 2007–05
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:cfr:cefirw:w0104&r=soc
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