
Luca AndrianiBirkbeck, University of London · Department of Management
Luca Andriani
PhD Economics
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Introduction
I am interested in studying the role of social norms and trust on the governance of the state-citizens relationship.
I am also interested in the relational mechanisms between informal institutions and individuals attitudes towards corruption and tax evasion
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In this work, we look at the role played by cultural values on individuals' tax preferences towards contributing to public goods. More specifically, looking at the transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and the Former Soviet Union (FSU), we analyse the role of specific cultural values in the willingness of an individual to pay mor...
Call for Papers for Panels organized by the Social Capital Working Group THEME: After 30 years of social capital research: Past, present, and future
Diversity boosts innovation and creativity in urban contexts, but it can also undermine civicness by negatively impacting individuals’ trust of other citizens, also hampering economic and institutional performance. By employing a spatial analysis approach using geocoded data from 5776 residents in three major urban Italian areas, we explore whether...
Fighting corruption cannot lie exclusively on appropriate formal institutions. It also requires social support and public engagement. Particularly in countries under institutional and economic transition. We embrace the recent perspective arguing that higher quality of life conditions makes people better citizens, more civically committed and more...
Human development cannot occur without women's empowerment. Particularly in marginalized contexts lacking equal treatment between women and men, women's empowerment is conditioned upon their control of financial resources and activities outside their households' tasks, such as entrepreneurial activities. Such contexts have been experiencing the esc...
The need of further research on the interlink between culture and institutions has been strongly advocated by economists and institutionalists alike. However, bringing together culture and institutions within an organic framework, though, is a non-trivial operation. This is due to the complexity of the synergies between cultural aspects and institu...
Durante décadas de mudanças políticas e sociais, a corrupção se tornou um fator pervasivo e habitual nos governos latino-americanos. A literatura sobre a economia política da corrupção debate, em grande parte, os impactos negativos que políticas anticorrupção ineficientes têm na responsividade do Estado (state accountability). Sem dúvida, este trab...
We examine the cultural context for individual's trust in public institutions. To shed some light on possible cultural explanations from a more comparative perspective and cover a wider set of cultural aspects, we use indicators of cultural dimensions by Kaasa et al . (2014) based on Hofstede's (1980) approach. Multilevel regression analysis is con...
Citizens' tax compliance should not only respond to the quality of formal institutions, but might also be culturally driven. We contribute to this literature by investigating whether tax morale, an individual's intrinsic non-pecuniary motivation to comply with taxes, is associated with the cultural values (following Hofstede's typology) held by thi...
Studying the inter-play between social capital and corruption aversion in a context subject to institutional dysfunctions like the Palestinian Territories may help understand mechanisms of governance and institutional legitimacy. By using a unique survey conducted in 2007 in the Palestinian Territories, we find that corruption aversion increases wi...
Collective and community economies represent alternative ways of dealing with important issues such as deprivations, inequalities and conflicts. These alternative economic approaches rely on the strength of social norms and networks of cooperation and solidarity challenging conventional universals of homo economicus. They can be found in a variety...
Collective and community economies represent alternative ways of dealing with important issues such as deprivations, inequalities and conflicts. These alternative economic approaches rely on the strength of social norms and networks of cooperation and solidarity challenging conventional universals of homo economicus. They can be found in a variety...
There is wide consensus that social capital increases government performance. However, the very mechanism underlying the relationship between social capital and well - performing governments remains unclear. In this paper we focus on the budgetary compositio n of local governments and find that the joint effect of larger social capital and higher q...
It is estimated that $1 trillion flows out of the developing and emerging economies illegally on a yearly basis. This affects the ability of governments to raise the tax revenue and deprive the citizens of crucial services. Multinational Corporations (MNCs), as one of the big player in the global economy, are suspected to play a role in those capit...
We invite papers to discuss how inequalities in the distribution of resources affect people’s access to social capital and how social capital can be used to address and overcome inequalities. We also encourage contributions that generally address the topic of social capital. We welcome works that derive from various social science disciplines and u...
Social Capital Working Group, 2016 IIPPE Conference (Sept. 7-9, 2016, Lisbon, Portugal): We would like to invite contributions that re-contextualize conceptions and measures of social capital to incorporate the complex reality of social relations, as a dynamic space where people interact, define and pursue, individually and collectively, principles...
The general idea of social capital is that relationships matter. In this sense, the trust, cooperation and reciprocity involved in these relationships can have a positive impact on the wealth of society by reducing transaction costs, facilitating collective actions, and lowering opportunistic behavior. This work sheds light on the different theoret...
Institutional conformity might help explain regional credit market failures in Italy in terms of insolvency rate. A credit relation is subject to a certain degree of uncertainty about the credible commitment of the parties to fulfil the contract ual obligations. We argue that conformity to informal institutions of reciprocal cooperation and trust c...
O artigo investiga a relação entre capital social e o padrão de vida das famílias italianas, baseando-se na pobreza e na exclusão social. A análise é desenvolvida em um nível regional, através de corte transversal dos anos de 2002 e 2003. Os índices de capital social que utilizamos são de atividade associativa no modelo de Putnam e um novo indicado...
This paper proposes a new proxy of social capital based on the regional density of industrial districts. The advantage of this new proxy is to better deal, at least conceptually, with the main three problems related to the PI advanced by Paldam (2000) which are: the definition of voluntary associations, the intensity of the contacts and the so call...
The Palestinian context is missing in the tax morale literature. Hence, in this paper we consider public spirit and associational activity two major expressions of pro-social behavior and we estimate their impact on Palestinians’ t ax morale (intrinsic motivation to pay taxes).
The empirical analysis uses a unique dataset based on a survey conducte...
O artigo investiga a relação entre capital social e o padrão de vida das famílias italianas, baseando-se na pobreza e na exclusão social. A análise é desenvolvida em um nível regional, através de corte transversal dos anos de 2002 e 2003. Os índices de capital social que utilizamos são de atividade associativa no modelo de Putnam e um novo indicado...
This paper contributes to the literature by conducting the first empirical investigation into the determinants of prosocial behaviour in the Palestinian Territories, with a focus on the role of trust and institutions. Drawing on a unique dataset collected through the administration of a questionnaire to a representative sample of the population of...
The presence of dysfunctional formal institutions in the Palestinian Territories might drive the citizens to concentrate on alternative forms of governance more community - oriented . Under these circumstances the set of informal institutions embedded in the social capital of the Palestinian community might help to explain the Palestinians attitude...
This article argues that behaving prosocially reduces regional finance differentials in terms of interest and insolvency rates. This is because prosociality implies more transparent information and cooperation among the parties engaged in a financial contract. The context of study is Italy, well known for its regional economic and financial dispari...
The general idea of social capital is that relationships matter. In this sense, trust, cooperation and reciprocity involved in these relationships can have a positive impact on the wealth of the society by reducing transaction costs, facilitating collective actions and lowering opportunistic behaviour. This work sheds light on the different theoret...
We consider the industrial districts “conductors” of social capital. Hence, we use the regional density of industrial districts to measure social capital and we analyse its impact on regional unemployment in Italy. By using regional data from the Italian National Statistical Office (ISTAT), we develop a pooled cross-sectional analysis based on the...
Palestinian perceptions about corruption and tax evasion can be affected by their endowment of social capital. This paper tries to estimate the probabilities that Palestinians will claim to be more against corruption in the presence of high social capital. This estimation is based on binomial logit regression models, where indicators of corruption...
The paper investigates whether social capital can affect the standard living of the Italian households based on poverty and social exclusion. The analysis is developed at the regional level through cross-sections based in the year 2002 and in the year 2003. The indices of social capital that we use are the associational activity a la Putnam and a n...
Book synopsis: There has been much literature which has addressed the positive relationship between trust and economic performance. This study measures the confidence of individuals that are part of the labor force in the public sector, politicians and public institutions. The study found that levels of confidence was higher among the employed comp...
Financial contracts represent an exchange of financial resources today, such as money, for a promise to return more financial resources tomorrow. The aim of the paper is to test whether cheating or respecting a promise, in particular a “financial one”, is also a matter of community norms in which the individuals are involved. According to the socia...
In the last 20 years, social capital, has been evoked in several field of social science research and used to explain a vast range of phenomena: political participation, institution performance, corruption, economic success of countries and so on. Unfortunately, dealing with social capital at a scientific level presents, at least, three main proble...