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legal system seems to matter as well. We furthermore find indications of a causal relationship and of social trust playing a … role as a mechanism in the relationship between economic freedom and tolerance and as an important catalyst: the more trust …
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Along with the economic and technological developments of the past decades, obesity has become a growing public health problem. This study empirically investigates whether the large and widespread increases in body-mass index (BMI) that have been observed around the world are related to economic...
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Using the newly developed KOF-index of globalization, as well as the economic freedom index from the Fraser institute, we examine if globalization and economic liberalizations are linked to increases in income inequality within countries. Studying changes between 1980 and 2000, we find a...
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Migration has been associated with higher levels of trade. Previous studies interpret this as evidence of migrants’ ability to lower trade costs. Nevertheless, no study has investigated the impact of migrants on firms’ foreign trade. Thus, they fail to both provide evidence on the role that...
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entrepreneurs’ seem to be more willing to accept some forms of strategic uncertainty related to multilateral competition and trust …
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We explore the relation between institutional quality, trust and stock-market participation. In our theoretical model … market. The corresponding empirical model shows that institutional quality affects trust and that the part of trust that is …
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This paper explores methods to study trust. Answers to survey questions and choices in a trust game are obtained from … between the results obtained by these methods were observed. Furthermore, one group of subjects played the trust game with … hypothetical payments. This changed trust behavior dramatically, whereas trustworthiness was unaffected. Subjects without financial …
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Undergraduates in Tanzania and Sweden participated in one Trust game, one Dictator game, and answered a standard set of … survey questions relating to trust. In both countries we detected a strong and significant relation between Dictator … donations and proportions returned in Trust games, which indicates that unconditional distribution preferences matter in Trust …
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Undergraduates in Tanzania were exposed to one Trust game, one Dictator game and a standard set of survey questions … relating to trust. We demonstrate that the survey questions neither predicts trust behavior nor trustworthiness as previously … the second player in the Trust game and that survey answers are correlated to donations in the Dictator game. These …
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