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Tirole, Jean - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

unifying and simple framework. The paper then provides a first and preliminary analysis of the concept of the stakeholder … modified so as to promote the stakeholder society. It is shown that the implementation of the stakeholder society strikes three …

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Shareholders and Stakeholders: Human Capital and Industry Equilibrium

Ippolito, Roberto; Miller, Marcus; Zhang, Lei - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

-specific skills. But the threat of poaching means that it is the individual ‘stakeholder’, not the firm, who must bear the cost. We …

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Incompatible European Partners? Cultural Predispositions and Household Financial Behavior

Haliassos, Michael; Jansson, Thomas; Karabulut, Yigitcan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

fails to identify a single ‘southern’ culture but points to a ‘northern’ culture. Our findings support the relevance of …

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Religion and Innovation

Bénabou, Roland; Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

In earlier work (Bénabou, Ticchi and Vindigni 2013) we uncovered a robust negative association between religiosity and patents per capita, holding across countries as well as US states, with and without controls. In this paper we turn to the individual level, examining the relationship between...

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From Shame to Game in One Hundred Years: The Rise in Premarital Sex and its Destigmitization

Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús; Greenwood, Jeremy; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

states to inculcate sexual mores. Technology affects culture. …

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Laws and Norms

Bénabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

This paper analyzes how private decisions and public policies are shaped by personal and societal preferences (values), material or other explicit incentives (laws) and social sanctions or rewards (norms). It first examines how honor, stigma and social norms arise from individuals’ behaviors...

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On the origins of gender roles: women and the plough

Alesina, Alberto F; Giuliano, Paola; Nunn, Nathan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

This paper seeks to better understand the historical origins of current differences in norms and beliefs about the appropriate role of women in society. We test the hypothesis that traditional agricultural practices influenced the historical gender division of labor and the evolution and...

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Culture, Institutions and the Wealth of nations

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Roland, Gérard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

innovation in an individualist culture. This cultural effect may offset the negative effects of bad institutions on growth … individualism on growth through innovation. Using genetic data as instruments for culture we provide strong evidence of a causal … collectivism, in line with recent advances in biology and neuro-science. The effect of culture on long-run growth remains very …

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Persistent effects of empires: Evidence from the partitions of Poland

Grosfeld, Irena; Zhuravskaya, Ekaterina - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

We use spatial regression discontinuity analysis to test whether the historical partition of Poland among three empires—Russia, Austria-Hungary, and Prussia—has a persistent effect on political outcomes in contemporary Poland and to examine the channels of this influence. We find that the...

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The Causal Impact of Common Native Language on International Trade: Evidence from a Spatial Regression Discontinuity Design

Egger, Peter; Lassmann, Andrea - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

This paper studies the causal effect of sharing a common native language on international trade. Switzerland is a multilingual country that hosts four official language groups of which three are major (French, German, and Italian). These groups of native language speakers are geographically...

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