provide an explanation of why small countries sometimes exclude certain goods (especially those related to culture) from trade …

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 …

According to the widely known ‘culture of honor’ hypothesis from social psychology, traditional herding practices have … scale using a combination of ethnographic and folklore data, global information on conflicts, and multinational surveys. We …

cultural stereotypes at the bank level, we show that corporate culture at bank headquarters is influenced by foreign …. We therefore leverage the geography of multinational bank branch networks to construct a bank-specific measure of culture …

, business perceptions hardly reacted to any other potential source of information: Firms did not learn from foreign policy …

containing structural and financial information. The ifo Institute assembled a business panel with executives from almost 4 …” survey data. The latter one covers information from regular – at least yearly - surveys treating topics like investment …

information on the export and import value by firm, country, product and year for the period 2011-2019. Problems arising from the …