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Ethical Foundations of Financial Regulation
Kane, Edward J. - 1997
and efficiency across society as a whole. Agency-cost theory recognizes that incentive conflicts and coordination problems … one sector of society at the expense of another. Each rationale sets different goals and assigns responsibiliy for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472798
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Self-Esteem, Moral Capital, and Wrongdoing
Dal Bó, Ernesto - 2008
We present an infinite-horizon model of moral standards where self-esteem and unconscious drives play key roles. In the model, an individual receives random temptations (such as bribe offers) and must decide which to resist. Individual actions depend both on conscious intent and a type...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464139
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Regulation and Supervision : An Ethical Perspective
Kane, Edward J. - 2008
This essay shows that government credit-allocation schemes generate incentive conflicts that undermine the quality of bank supervision and eventually produce banking crisis. For political reasons, most countries establish a regulatory culture that embraces three economically contradictory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464752
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Moral Universalism and the Structure of Ideology
Enke, Benjamin - 2020
Throughout the Western world, people's policy views are correlated across domains in a strikingly similar fashion. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481366
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The Economics of Cultural Transmission and Socialization
Bisin, Alberto - 2010
cultural heterogeneity, the world's geographical fragmentation by ethic and religious traits, at any given time. Finally, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462145
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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...
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Aging, religion, and health
Deaton, Angus S. - 2009
between religion and health. The topic is particularly germane for the health of women and of the elderly, who are much more … likely to be religious. In this paper, I use data from the Gallup World Poll to study the within and between country … nationally representative samples to study the correlates of religion within and between more than 140 countries using more than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463380
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Segregation and the Quality of Government in a Cross-Section of Countries
Alesina, Alberto - 2008
This paper has three goals. The first (and perhaps the most important one) is to provide a new compilation of data on ethnic, linguistic and religious composition at the sub-national level for a large number of countries. This data set allows us to measure segregation of different ethnic,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464332
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Religion, Terrorism and Public Goods : Testing the Club Model
Berman, Eli - 2008
Can rational choice modeling explain why Hamas, Taliban, Hezbollah and other radical religious rebels are so lethal? The literature rejects theological explanations. We propose a club framework, which emphasizes the function of voluntary religious organizations as efficient providers of local...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464922
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Religious Conversion in 40 Countries
Barro, Robert J. - 2007
Questions about current and prior religion adherence from the International Social Survey Program and the World Values … religion adherence classified into eight major types. In a theoretical model based on rational individual choice, the frequency …" religion. Empirical findings for a panel of countries accord with several hypotheses: religious-conversion rates are positively …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464957