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When is Sovereign Debt Odious? A Theory of Government Repression, Growth Traps, and Growth Boosts
Acharya, Viral V.; Rajan, Raghuram Govind; Shim, Jack - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We examine the dynamics of a country's growth, consumption, and sovereign debt, assuming that the government is myopic and wants to maximize short-term, self-interested spending. Surprisingly, government myopia can increase a country's access to external borrowing. In turn, access to borrowing...
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Structural Transformation and Value Change : The British Abolitionist Movement
Figueroa, Valentin; Fouka, Vasiliki - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
What drives change in a society's values? From Marx to modernization theory, scholars have identified a connection between structural transformation and social change. To understand how changes in a society's dominant mode of production affect its dominant values, we examine the case of the...
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Movies
Michalopulos, Stelios; Rauh, Christopher - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Why are certain movies more successful in some markets than others? Are the entertainment products we consume reflective of our core values and beliefs? These questions drive our investigation into the relationship between a society's oral tradition and the financial success of films. We combine...
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(Dis)Information Wars
Casillas, Adrian; Farboodi, Maryam; Hashemi, Layla; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Over the past decade, social media platforms have emerged as prominent vehicles for displaying dissent. In response, various actors have increasingly spread fake news on these platforms to impair the opposition--the (dis)information war. We analyze a methodology to identify disinformation using...
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Toward a Holistic Approach to Central Bank Trust
Eickmeier, Sandra; Petersen, Luba - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We examine public trust in the European Central Bank (ECB) and its determinants using data from the Bundesbank … psychology, we offer a fresh perspective on the factors influencing central bank trust that is more holistic than the … their trust in the ECB, tend to express higher trust in the ECB. Conversely, those who place greater importance on values …
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Credit History : The Changing Nature of Scientific Credit
Gans, Joshua S. - 2013
This paper considers the role of the allocation of scientific credit in determining the organization of science. We examine changes in that organization and the nature of credit allocation in the past half century. Our contribution is a formal model of that organizational choice that considers...
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Culture Clash : Incompatible Reputation Mechanisms and Intergroup Conflict
Fouka, Vasiliki; Schläpfer, Alain - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
highlighting the role of reputation mechanisms in sustaining cooperation. Reputational concerns can deter defection in one …-time interactions within a group, but the informational content of reputation can differ across groups. We consider two types of … information. Punishment-based reputation (a "culture of honor") represents past sanctioning behavior of individuals, while a …
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AGING IN STYLE : Seniority and Sentiment in Scholarly Writing
Kosnik, Lea-Rachel; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The scholarly impact of academic research matters for academic promotions, influence, relevance to public policy, and others. Focusing on writing style in top-level professional journals, we examine how it changes with age, and how stylistic differences and age affect impact. As top-level...
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Why Do Older Scholars Slow Down?
Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Kosnik, Lea-Rachel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Using data describing all "Top 5" economics journal publications from 1969-2018, we examine what determines which authors produce less as they age and which retire earlier. Sub-field has no impact on the rate of production, but interacts with it to alter retirement probabilities. A positive,...
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Ph.D. Publication Productivity : The Role of Gender and Race in Supervision in South Africa
Rossello, Giulia; Cowan, Robin A.; Mairesse, Jacques - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We study whether student-advisor gender and race composition matters for publication productivity of Ph.D. students in South Africa. We consider all Ph.D. students in STEM graduating between 2000 and 2014, after the recent systematic introduction of doctoral programs in this country. We...
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