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Universalism : Global Evidence
Cappelen, Alexander W.; Enke, Benjamin; Tungodden, Bertil - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper presents a new set of stylized facts about the global variation in universalism, leveraging hypothetical money allocation tasks deployed in representative samples of 64,000 people from 60 countries. Our data reveal large variation in universalism within and across countries, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334376
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Religious Conversion across Countries
Barro, Robert J.; McCleary, Rachel M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
religions and costs of having one's religion deviate from the type viewed as ideal. The International Social Survey Programme … (ISSP) waves for 1991, 1998, 2008, and 2018 allow for calculations of country-wide conversion rates based on religion … analysis applies to 8 types of religion for 58 countries (125 total observations). The rate of conversion depends positively on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014468246
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Praying for Rain
Espín-Sánchez, José-Antonio; Gil-Guirado, Salvador; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
prediction in an original data set of whether ethnic groups around the world traditionally prayed for rain. We find that prayer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322798
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On the Importance of African Traditional Religion for Economic Behavior
Butinda, Lewis Dunia; Lameke, Aimable Amani; Nunn, Nathan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Within the field of economics, despite being widespread, African traditional religions tend to be perceived as unimportant and ignored when studying economic decision-making. This study tests whether this presumption is correct. Using daily data on business decisions and performance of beer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322817
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The International Monetary System and International Financial System as an Analogy to the Copernican Heliocentric system : A simple multi-layers network model with simultaneous reg...
Bordo, Michael D.; Bastidon, Cécile - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The evolution of the IMS and IFS in the past several hundred years can be viewed through the lens of the Copernican heliocentric system developed over 500 years ago. We trace out the evolution across regimes of the IMS and IFS in terms of network representations of the Copernican system. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014372472
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"Unusual, Unstable, Complicated, Unreliable and Temporary" Reinterpreting the Ebb and Flow of Globalization
Bordo, Michael D.; Schenk, Catherine R. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
organize: World War I, Bretton Woods, 1970s Great Inflation and Managed Floating. Each turning point was characterized by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012599404
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The Smoot-Hawley Trade War
Mitchener, Kris; Wandschneider, Kirsten; O'Rourke, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We document the outbreak of a trade war after the U.S. adopted the Smoot-Hawley tariff in June 1930. U.S. trade partners initially protested the possible implementation of the sweeping tariff legislation, with many eventually choosing to retaliate by increasing their tariffs on imports from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012496170
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Central Banks as Dollar Lenders of Last Resort : Implications for Regulation and Reserve Holdings
Das, Mitali; Gopinath, Gita; Kim, Taehoon; Stein, Jeremy C. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper explores how non-U.S. central banks behave when firms in their economies engage in currency mismatch, borrowing more heavily in dollars than justified by their operating exposures. We begin by documenting that, in a panel of 53 countries, central bank holdings of dollar reserves are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013477280
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Author Country of Origin and Attention on Open Science Platforms : Evidence from COVID-19 Preprints
Fry, Caroline; MacGarvie, Megan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
in demand for new research and a corresponding increase in the use of preprint platforms around the world. We find that ….S. institutions receive more attention, than preprints with authors from the rest of the world. In an exploration of potential …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014337798
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The Impact of Bretton Woods International Capital Controls on the Global Economy and the Value of Geopolitical Stability : A General Equilibrium Analysis
Ohanian, Lee E.; Restrepo-Echavarria, Paulina; Van … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
of the World (ROW) is developed to quantify capital controls and evaluate their impact on the world economy. We find … these controls had large effects. Counterfactual analysis show world output would have been 0:5 percent higher had there …
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