Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/213522 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
Quaderni - Working Paper DSE No. 1125
Publisher: 
Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche (DSE), Bologna
Abstract: 
This paper studies whether civic capital (those persistent shared beliefs and values that help a group overcome the free rider problem in the pursuit of socially valuable activities) acts an effective restraint against opportunistic behavior in transactions by looking at the firm-level degree of service outsourcing in Italy. Our results show that firms tend to outsource more services in areas where civic capital is higher. We claim that the rise in the propensity to engage in transactions with outside service suppliers stems from the decrease in opportunism between the parties involved. We consider a dynamic specification which allows to disentangle state dependence of service outsourcing from firm-level heterogeneity, and we use historical instruments to address the potential endogeneity of civic capital.
Subjects: 
Civic Capital
Purchased Service Intensity
Vertical Integration
Outsourcing
JEL: 
A13
L20
L24
R12
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Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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