{"title":"Does social capital enforce social distancing? The role of bridging and bonding social capital in the evolution of the pandemic.","authors":"Vincenzo Alfano","doi":"10.1007/s40888-021-00255-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40888-021-00255-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>By shaping the way people look at members of their networks as well as strangers, social capital affects the behavior of a population during a pandemic. Over the course of 2020, various countries implemented non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPI), imposing restrictions that were difficult to enforce (due to the scale of the policies) in order to protect the public from the threat of COVID-19. This is an interesting quasi-experimental setting in which to test the compliance of populations with different levels of social capital with government suggestions and prescriptions. With the help of European Social Survey data, and the John Hopkins University dataset on the spread of COVID-19 around the world, the present work aims to test the impact within a sample of European countries with different social capital stocks on the spread of coronavirus. The results show that countries with higher social capital have fewer COVID-19 cases, <i>ceteris paribus</i> for NPI. This is especially true if this capital is of the bonding kind.</p>","PeriodicalId":72867,"journal":{"name":"Economia politica (Bologna, Italy)","volume":"39 3","pages":"839-859"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8791696/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10694810","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Massimo Amato, Everardo Belloni, P. Falbo, Lucio Gobbi
{"title":"Europe, public debts, and safe assets: the scope for a European Debt Agency","authors":"Massimo Amato, Everardo Belloni, P. Falbo, Lucio Gobbi","doi":"10.1007/s40888-021-00236-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40888-021-00236-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72867,"journal":{"name":"Economia politica (Bologna, Italy)","volume":"41 1","pages":"823 - 861"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85570538","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Political orientation and adherence to social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy.","authors":"Paolo Nicola Barbieri, Beatrice Bonini","doi":"10.1007/s40888-021-00224-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40888-021-00224-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Many governments have implemented social distancing and lockdown measures to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). Using province-level geolocation data from Italy, we document that political disbelief can limit government policy effectiveness. Residents in provinces leaning towards extreme right-wing parties show lower rates of compliance with social distancing order. We also find that, during the Italian lockdown, provinces with high protest votes virtually disregarded all social distancing orders. On the contrary, in provinces with higher political support for the current political legislation, we found a higher degree of social distancing compliance. These results are robust to controlling for other factors, including time, geography, local COVID-19 cases and deaths, healthcare hospital beds, and other sociodemographic and economic characteristics. Our research shows that bipartisan support and national responsibility are essential to implement and manage social distancing efficiently. From a broader perspective, our findings suggest that partisan politics and discontent with the political class (i.e., protest voting) might significantly affect human health and the economy.</p>","PeriodicalId":72867,"journal":{"name":"Economia politica (Bologna, Italy)","volume":"38 2","pages":"483-504"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7980748/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10633795","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An assessment of import tariff costs for Italian exporting firms","authors":"Ilaria Fusacchia, A. Antimiani, L. Salvatici","doi":"10.1007/s40888-020-00202-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40888-020-00202-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72867,"journal":{"name":"Economia politica (Bologna, Italy)","volume":"11 1","pages":"31 - 56"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75176158","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
X. Cirera, D. Lederman, Juan A. Máñez Castillejo, M. E. Rochina Barrachina, J. Sanchis-Llopis
{"title":"Firm productivity gains in a period of slow trade liberalization: evidence from Brazil","authors":"X. Cirera, D. Lederman, Juan A. Máñez Castillejo, M. E. Rochina Barrachina, J. Sanchis-Llopis","doi":"10.1007/s40888-020-00204-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40888-020-00204-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72867,"journal":{"name":"Economia politica (Bologna, Italy)","volume":"25 1","pages":"57 - 87"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73410480","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}