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Culture and cooperation
Gächter, Simon; Herrmann, Benedikt; Thöni, Christian - 2010
Does the cultural background influence the success with which genetically unrelated individuals cooperate in social dilemma situations? In this paper we provide an answer by analyzing the data of Herrmann et al. (Science 2008, pp. 1362-1367), who study cooperation and punishment in sixteen...
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Gotcha!: a profile of smuggling in international trade
Berger, Helge; Nitsch, Volker - 2008
This paper explores official trade data to identify patterns of smuggling in international trade. Our main measure of … interest is the difference in matched partner trade statistics, i.e., the extent to which the recorded export value in the … with the level of corruption in both partner countries. This finding supports the hypothesis that trade gaps partly …
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