We investigate to what extent tolerance, as measured by attitudes toward different types of neighbors, affects economic … growth. Data from the World Values Survey enable us to investigate tolerance–growth relationships for 54 countries. We … tolerance toward homosexuals is negatively related to growth. For tolerance toward people of a different race, we do not find …

Tolerance – respecting those who are different – is arguably of particular importance in an era of globalization, where … different from oneself. We investigate whether globalization induces parents to want to instill tolerance in their children, the … willingness-to-teach-kids-tolerance measure, that globalization enhances the willingness to transmit such social values. More …

Tolerance has the potential to affect both economic growth and wellbeing. It is therefore important to discern its …-oriented is related to different measures of tolerance. Regression analysis of up to 65 countries reveals that economic freedom is … positively related to tolerance towards homosexuals, especially in the longer run, while tolerance towards people of a different …

We provide a cultural explanation to the phenomenon of corruption in the framework of an overlapping generations model … corruption. …

We provide a cultural explanation to the phenomenon of corruption in the framework of an overlapping generations model … corruption. The driving force in the equilibrium selection process is the education effort exerted by parents which depends on … interventions which via parents' efforts have long-lasting effects on corruption and show the success of intensive education …

and engage in local corruption to avoid punishment. When law enforcers are sufficiently well-paid, difficult to bribe and … corruption detection highly probable, we show that increasing policing or sanctions effectively deters crime. However, when … punishment induce organized crime to corruption, and ensuing impunity leads too higher rather than lower crime. …

We examine the effect of corruption on foreign direct investments. Our model shows that corruption may have different … market. Using Swedish firm-level data, we find that affiliate local sales decrease with corruption, while affiliate exports … increase. Finally, corruption has a negative effect on the probability that a foreign firm will invest in a country. These …

In this paper, we use data from a corruption survey conducted among top politicians and high level civil servants in … 290 Swedish municipalities in 2007 to investigate the effects of government size on corruption. We construct several … measures of corruption based on the survey, and combine these corruption measures with detailed administrative municipality …

several other forms of crimes that share cartels’ strategic features, including corruption and financial fraud. …