全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): The Economic Impact of Social Ties: Evidence from German Reunification

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来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w17186
来源ID	Working Paper 17186
	The Economic Impact of Social Ties: Evidence from German Reunification
	Konrad B. Burchardi; Tarek Alexander Hassan
发表日期	2011-06-29
出版年	2011
语种	英语
摘要	We use the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 to show that personal relationships which individuals maintain for non-economic reasons can be an important determinant of regional economic growth. We show that West German households who have social ties to East Germany in 1989 experience a persistent rise in their personal incomes after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Moreover, the presence of these households significantly affects economic performance at the regional level: it increases the returns to entrepreneurial activity, the share of households who become entrepreneurs, and the likelihood that firms based within a given West German region invest in East Germany. As a result, West German regions which (for idiosyncratic reasons) have a high concentration of households with social ties to the East exhibit substantially higher growth in income per capita in the early 1990s. A one standard deviation rise in the share of households with social ties to East Germany in 1989 is associated with a 4.6 percentage point rise in income per capita over six years. We interpret our findings as evidence of a causal link between social ties and regional economic development.
主题	Industrial Organization ; Market Structure and Firm Performance ; Development and Growth ; Development ; Growth and Productivity ; Country Studies
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w17186
来源智库	National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/574860
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Konrad B. Burchardi,Tarek Alexander Hassan. The Economic Impact of Social Ties: Evidence from German Reunification. 2011.

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