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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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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 …
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How deep are the roots of economic development?
Spolaore, Enrico; Wacziarg, Romain - 2012
The empirical literature on economic growth and development has moved from the study of proximate determinants to the analysis of ever deeper, more fundamental factors, rooted in long-term history. A growing body of new empirical work focuses on the measurement and estimation of the effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283630
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The Globalisation-Welfare State Nexus : Evidence from Asia
Potrafke, Niklas - 2019
expenditures in Asia. Neither do the results suggest that the nexus between globalisation and social expenditures varied across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892254
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Public Spending and Government Performance in Europe and Asia : Tigers Today and in the Future
Schuknecht, Ludger - 2022
Asia. Public spending and performance patterns differ hugely across countries. Asian “tigers” and some advanced countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013296721
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Workers without borders? Culture, migration and the political limits to globalization
Jain, Sanjay; Majumdar, Sumon; Mukand, Sharun - 2010
This paper examines the role of cultural factors in driving the politics and shape of migration policy. We show that there exists a broad political failure that results in inefficiently high barriers restricting the import of temporary foreign workers and also admitting an inefficiently large...
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Spend-and-tax adjustments and the sustainability of the government's intertemporal budget constraint
Legrenzi, Gabriella Deborah; Milas, Costas - 2010
We apply non-linear error-correction models to the empirical testing of the sustainability of the government …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266076
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The sustainability of Chinese growth and the aggregate factor substitution elasticity
Whalley, John; Xing, Chunbing - 2012
We discuss the sustainability of Chinese high growth relative to growth experience elsewhere, and specifically Soviet … sustainability of high Chinese growth. …
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