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Becker, Sascha O. - 2020

-country analyses seek to understand the broader determinants of religious practice and its various effects across the world. We …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012830986

Do entrepreneurs matter?

Becker, Sascha O.; Hvide, Hans K. - 2013

In the large literature on firm performance, economists have given little attention to entrepreneurs. We use deaths of more than 500 entrepreneurs as a source of exogenous variation, and ask whether this variation can explain shifts in firm performance. Using longitudinal data, we find large and...

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Tax Morale After the Reunification of Germany : Results from a Quasi-Natural Experiment

Feld, Lars P.; Torgler, Benno - 2021

prior to the separation after the Second World War. As a consequence, an East-West comparison has a methodological advantage …This paper provides a comparison of tax morale between inhabitants of East and West Germany in its post …-reunification period, using three World Values Survey/European Values Survey waves between 1990 and 1999. German reunification is …

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Tax morale after the reunification of Germany: results from a quasi-natural experiment

Feld, Lars P.; Torgler, Benno - 2007

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Religion in Economic History: A Survey

Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2020

-country analyses seek to understand the broader determinants of religious practice and its various effects across the world. We …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269435

iPEHD: The ifo Prussian Economic History Database

Becker, Sascha O.; Cinnirella, Francesco; Hornung, Erik; … - 2012

This paper provides a documentation of the ifo Prussian Economic History Database (iPEHD), a county-level database covering a rich collection of variables for 19th-century Prussia. The Royal Prussian Statistical Office collected these data in several censuses over the years 1816-1901, with much...

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Was Weber wrong?: a human capital theory of protestant economic history

Becker, Sascha O.; Woessmann, Ludger - 2007

Max Weber attributed the higher economic prosperity of Protestant regions to a Protestant work ethic. We provide an alternative theory, where Protestant economies prospered because instruction in reading the Bible generated the human capital crucial to economic prosperity. County-level data from...

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Catch me iIf you can : education and catch-up in the industrial revolution

Becker, Sascha O.; Hornung, Erik; Woessmann, Ludger - 2009

Existing evidence, mostly from British textile industries, rejects the importance of formal education for the Industrial Revolution. We provide new evidence from Prussia, a technological follower, where early-19th-century institutional reforms created the conditions to adopt the exogenously...

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FDI and taxation: a meta-Ssudy

Feld, Lars P.; Heckemeyer, Jost Henrich - 2009

Despite the continuing political interest in the usefulness of tax competition and tax coordination as well as the wealth of theoretical analyses, it still remains open whether or when tax competition is harmful. Moreover, the influence of tax differentials on multinationals' decisions is still...

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Power over prosecutors corrupts politicians: cross country evidence using a new indicator

van Aaken, Anne; Feld, Lars P.; Voigt, Stefan - 2008

It is hypothesized that prosecution agencies that are dependent on the executive have less incentives to prosecute crimes committed by government members which, in turn, increases their incentives to commit such crimes. Here, this hypothesis is put to an empirical test focusing on a particular...

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