• Does Corruption Have Social Roots? The Role of Culture and Social Capital 

      Pena-López, Atilano; Sánchez Santos, José Manuel (Springer Verlag, 2014)
      [Abstract:] The aim of this work is to analyse the influence of sociocultural factors on corruption levels. Taking as starting point Husted (J Int Bus Studies 30:339–359, 1999) and Graeff (In: Lambsdorff J, Taube M, Schramm ...
    • La dotación de capital social como factor determinante de la corrupción 

      Pena-López, Atilano; Sánchez Santos, José Manuel (Sociedad de Economía Mundial, 2009)
      [Resumen:] El objetivo del presente trabajo es abordar el papel que desempeñan los entramados sociales como factor explicativo de la corrupción. En particular, se trata de determinar en qué medida los niveles de corrupción ...
    • Inequality and Individuals’ Social Networks: The Other Face of Social Capital 

      Pena-López, Atilano; Rungo, Paolo; Sánchez Santos, José Manuel (2021)
      [Abstract] Social capital is a controversial concept, which is used in economics as a generic form of pro-sociality and a simple means to introduce the social context into mainstream approaches. However, the accepted view ...
    • The Olson - Putnam Controversy: Some Empirical Evidence 

      Pena-López, Atilano; Sánchez Santos, José Manuel (Economics Bulletin, 2007)
      [Abstract:] This paper explores the causal link between associationism and general trust. First we study the principal components that constitute social capital. Then we contrast a structural model identifying the relations ...