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Tightness-looseness : implications for consumer and branding research
Torelli, Carlos J.; Rodas, María A. - In: Journal of consumer psychology : JCP : the official … 27 (2017) 3, pp. 398-404
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Cultural constraints on the emergence of women as leaders
Toh, Soo Min; Leonardelli, Geoffrey J. - In: Journal of World Business 47 (2012) 4, pp. 604-611
, or gender roles), we argue that a culture's tightness – its strength of norms and social sanctions – can provoke a … represented among top leadership positions. Moreover, cultural tightness moderates the degree to which egalitarian practices …
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Culture and R2
Eun, Cheol S.; Wang, Lingling; Xiao, Steven C. - In: Journal of Financial Economics 115 (2015) 2, pp. 283-303
tight (loose) and collectivistic (individualistic) countries. Culture influences stock price synchronicity by affecting … financial openness weakens the effect of domestic culture on stock price comovements. These results hold for various robustness … checks. Our study suggests that culture is an important omitted variable in the literature that investigates cross …
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The not so dark side of trust: Does trust increase the size of the shadow economy?
Méon, Pierre-Guillaume; D'Hernoncourt, Johanna - Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, … - 2012
This paper reports a negative relationship between the size of the shadow economy and generalized trust, in a sample of countries, both developed and developing. That relationship is robust to controlling for a large set of economic, policy, and institutional variables, to changing the estimate...
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The not so dark side of trust: Does trust increase the size of the shadow economy?
D’Hernoncourt, Johanna; Méon, Pierre-Guillaume - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 81 (2012) 1, pp. 97-121
This paper reports a negative relationship between the size of the shadow economy and generalized trust, in a sample of countries, both developed and developing. That relationship is robust to controlling for a large set of economic, policy, and institutional variables, to changing the estimate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010597451
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Is the importance of religion in daily life related to social trust? Cross-country and cross-state comparisons
Berggren, Niclas; Bjørnskov, Christian - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 80 (2011) 3, pp. 459-480
We look at the effect of importance of religion in daily life on social trust, defined as the share of a population that thinks that people in general can be trusted. We make use of new data from the Gallup World Poll for 109 countries and 43 U.S. states. Our empirical results indicate a robust,...
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Formation of Social Capital in Central and Eastern Europe: Understanding the Gap Vis-a-Vis Developed Countries
Fidrmuc, Jan; Gërxhani, Klarita - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
Recent Eurobarometer survey data are used to document and explain the stock of social capital in 27 European countries. Social capital in Central and Eastern Europe – measured by civic participation and access to social networks – lags behind that in Western European countries. Using...
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"Mass Privatisation and the Post-Communist Mortality Crisis": Is There Really a Relationship?
Earle, John S.; Gehlbach, Scott - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2010
We reexamine the well-publicized claim that "rapid mass privatisation [of state-owned enterprises] . . . was a crucial determinant of differences in adult mortality trends in postcommunist countries" (Stuckler, King and McKee, 2009). Our analysis shows that the estimated correlation of...
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Inequality, infrastructure, and institutions : empirical studies in public economics and political economy
Dorn, Florian - 2021
Florian Dorn erstellte diesen Beitrag während seines Promotionsstudiums an der Universität München (LMU). Die Studie wurde im September 2020 abgeschlossen und von der Fakultät für Volkswirtschaftslehre als Dissertation angenommen. Die Dissertation trägt zur Empirie der Ökonomie des...
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Cultural impact on national economic growth
Maridal, J. Haavard - In: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics … 47 (2013) C, pp. 136-146
hypothesis regarding national economic prosperity. Culture is found to affect economic performance through two channels; cultural … traits that stimulate individual motivation, and traits that develop social capital in the population. Culture is defined as …
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