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Herding, Warfare, and a Culture of Honor : Global Evidence
Cao, Yiming; Enke, Benjamin; Falk, Armin; Giuliano, Paola; … - 2022
According to the widely known ‘culture of honor’ hypothesis from social psychology, traditional herding practices have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013308100
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International trade, factor mobility and the persistence of cultural-institutional diversity
Belloc, Marianna; Bowles, Samuel - 2009
Cultural and institutional differences among nations may result in differences in the ratios of marginal costs of goods in autarchy and thus be the basis of specialization and comparative advantage, as long as these differences are not eliminated by trade. We provide an evolutionary model of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271869
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Migration and Cultural Change
Rapoport, Hillel - 2020
the host country's culture. While migrants do act as vectors of cultural diffusion and bring about cultural convergence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012823554
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Ethnic Identity and the Employment Outcomes of Immigrants : Evidence from France
Delaporte, Isaure - 2019
identification to the culture and society of the country of origin and the host country and second, to investigate the impact of …, namely: i) the degree of commitment to the origin country culture and ii) the extent to which the individual holds multiple …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012866393
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Culture, Institutions & the Long Divergence
Bisin, Alberto; Rubin, Jared; Seror, Avner; Verdier, Thierry - 2021
institutional environment. In this paper, we address these issues by modeling the joint evolution of institutions and culture. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013245626
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Cultural Distance, Firm Boundaries, and Global Sourcing
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Kukharskyy, Bohdan; Roland, Gérard - 2023
Casual observation suggests that cultural differences play an important role in business transactions, yet systematic evidence on this relationship is scarce. This paper provides a novel investigation of the effect of cultural distance on multinational firms’ decisions to integrate their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014346366
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The Economic Approach to Political Borders
Spolaore, Enrico - 2022
This paper overviews theoretical and empirical contributions that study political borders from an economic perspective. It reviews theories of the number and size of nations focused on the trade-off between economies of scale in public-good provision and heterogeneity of preferences over public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014290075
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Why are educated and risk-loving persons more mobile across regions
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; … - 2012
Why are better educated and more risk-friendly persons more mobile across regions? To answer this question, we use micro data on internal migrants from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) 2000-2006 and merge this information with a unique proxy for region-pair-specific cultural distances...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288242
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International trade and cultural diversity : a model of preference selection
Bala, Vankatesh; Long, Ngo Van - 2004
provide an explanation of why small countries sometimes exclude certain goods (especially those related to culture) from trade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261231
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Culture and institutions : economic development in the regions of Europe
Tabellini, Guido - 2005
Does culture have a causal effect on economic development? The data on European regions suggest that it does. Culture … individual self-determination. To isolate the exogenous variation in culture, I rely on two historical variables used as … level. The exogenous component of culture due to history is strongly correlated with current regional economic development …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261295