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Culture and Tax Structures
König, Tobias; Wagener, Andreas - CESifo - 2012
We argue that societies with a stronger tendency towards postmaterialist life goals tilt the tax structure towards personal income taxes and away from corporate taxation. We provide empirical evidence for this correlation in OECD countries. To address endogeneity issues we then use an...
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When the State Mirrors the Family: The Design of Pension Systems
Galasso, Vincenzo; Profeta, Paola - CESifo - 2010
This paper studies the transmission mechanism from family culture to economic institutions, by analyzing the impact of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008671713
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The Agricultural Origins of Time Preference
Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer - CESifo - 2015
This research explores the origins of the distribution of time preference across regions. It advances the hypothesis, and establishes empirically that geographical variations in the natural return to agricultural investment have had a persistent effect on the distribution of time preference...
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Same Same But Different: Dialects and Trade
Lameli, Alfred; Nitsch, Volker; Suedekum, Jens; Wolf, … - CESifo - 2013
finding as evidence for the effect of culture on trade. …
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Does Culture Affect Unemployment? Evidence from the Röstigraben
Brügger, Beatrix; Lalive, Rafael; Zweimüller, Josef - CESifo - 2009
This paper studies the role of culture in shaping unemployment outcomes. The empirical analysis is based on local … political jurisdictions. Local contrasts across the language border identify the role of culture for unemployment. Our findings … indicate that differences in culture explain differences in unemployment duration on the order of 20 %. Moreover, we find that …
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Culture and Cooperation
Gaechter, Simon; Herrmann, Benedikt; Thöni, Christian - CESifo - 2010
-1367), who study cooperation and punishment in sixteen subject pools from six different world cultures (as classified by … cultural background relative to individual heterogeneity and group-level differences in cooperation. We find that culture has a …
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Dialects, Cultural Identity, and Economic Exchange
Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Lameli, Alfred; … - CESifo - 2010
We investigate whether time-persistent cultural borders impede economic exchange across regions of the same country. To measure cultural differences we evaluate, for the first time in economics, linguistic micro-data about phonological and grammatical features of German dialects. These data are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008583636
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Sources of Real Exchange Rate Volatility and International Financial Integration: A Dynamic GMM Panel Approach
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Amor, Thouraya Hadj; Rault, … - CESifo - 2011
The aim of this paper is to provide some new empirical evidence on the determinants of volatility of real exchange rates in emerging countries, focusing on the role of international financial integration in particular. A reduced-form model is estimated using the GMM method for dynamic panels...
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The Collapse Speed of China's Exports in the 2008-2009 Financial Crisis
Jing, Ran - CESifo - 2011
This paper studies the performance of China’s exports during the 2008—2009 financial crisis. It focuses on the speed at which China’s exports were hit by this downturn. Product-country monthly exports data is utilized. It is found that GDP growth rates of importing countries play an...
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The Evidence on Globalization
Potrafke, Niklas - CESifo - 2014
Globalization is blamed for many socio-economic shortcomings. I discuss the consequences of globalization by surveying the empirical globalization literature. My focus is on the KOF indices of globalization (Dreher 2006a and Dreher et al. 2008a), that have been used in more than 100 studies....
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