Trust and Social Collateral
Trust and Social Collateral
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Trust and Social Collateral
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Oxford: MIT Press
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The Quarterly journal of economics, 2009-08, Vol.124 (3), p.1307-1361
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English
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Oxford: MIT Press
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This paper builds a theory of trust based on informal contract enforcement in social networks. In our model, network connections between individuals can be used as social collateral to secure informal borrowing. We define network-based trust as the largest amount one agent can borrow from another agent and derive a reduced-form expression for this...
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Trust and Social Collateral
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TN_cdi_proquest_journals_210982180
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_journals_210982180
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0033-5533
E-ISSN
1531-4650
DOI
10.1162/qjec.2009.124.3.1307
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