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Why every Economist should Learn some Auction Theory

Klemperer, Paul - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

This is a preliminary draft of an Invited Symposium paper for the World Congress of the Econometric Society to be held in Seattle in August 2000. We discuss the strong connections between auction theory and 'standard' economic theory, and argue that auction-theoretic tools and intuitions can...

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Competition When Consumers Have Switching Costs: An Overview

Klemperer, Paul - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992

This paper surveys recent work on competition in markets in which consumers face costs to switching between competing firms' products, even when all firms' products are functionally identical. I address issues in macroeconomics, international trade and industrial organization: In a market with...

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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

, broadly defined (e.g., attitudes toward science and technology, new versus old ideas, change, risk taking, personal agency …

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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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