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Religion in Economic History : A Survey
Becker, Sascha O. - 2020
This paper surveys the recent social science literature on religion in economic history, covering both socioeconomic … causes and consequences of religion. Following the rapidly growing literature, it focuses on the three main monotheisms …-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
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The Separation and Reunification of Germany : Rethinking a Natural Experiment Interpretation of the Enduring Effects of Communism
Becker, Sascha O. - 2020
described as a natural experiment to study the enduring effects of communism. We show in three steps that the populations in … already visible in many socio-economic characteristics in pre-World War II data. Second, World War II and the subsequent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012839354
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Russians' "Impressionable Years" : Life Experience During the Exit from Communism and Putin-Era Beliefs
Pyle, William - 2020
impressionable during this exit-from-communism period. Individual economic hardship, in conjunction with the dissolution of the … Soviet Union, may have been particularly disorienting for those living in the country in which communism first took root …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012830108
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Globalization for Sale
Blanga-Gubbay, Michael - 2020
We study the role of firms in the political economy of trade agreements. Using detailed information from lobbying reports filed under the Lobbying Disclosure Act, we find that virtually all firms that lobby on free trade agreements (FTAs) support their ratification. Moreover, relative to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012836007
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The role of government in anti-social redistributive activities
Angelopoulos, Konstantinos; Philippopoulos, Apostolis - 2005
It is known that anti-social redistributive activities (rent seeking, tax evasion, corruption, violation of property rights, delay of socially beneficial reforms, etc) hurt the macroeconomy. But it is less known what is the role of government size as a determinant of such activities. We use data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261155
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Property Rights to the World's (Linear) Ocean Fisheries in Customary International Law
Barrett, Scott - 2023
I model the ocean as an array of lines set within a two-dimensional frame, and show how the Exclusive Economic Zone emerged as an equilibrium in customary international law. I find that custom codifies the efficient Nash equilibrium of enclosure for nearshore fisheries. For highly migratory and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014346184
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Elections and Policies : Evidence from the COVID Pandemic
Grechyna, Daryna - 2023
This paper examines the evolution of public policies before the scheduled political elections based on the government responses to the Covid pandemic. The results of an event study in a sample of countries that experienced political elections during the first year of the pandemic suggest that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014346606
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E-Globalization and Trade Agreements
McCalman, Phillip - 2023
The global success of online search engines and social media is due to their free access and high level of quality. However, these features are supported by a business model that exploits personal user data to provide targeted advertising services to third parties. Does this business model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014346846
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On the Preferred Creditor Status of Multilateral Development Banks
Amegashie, J. Atsu - 2023
The loans of the IMF, World Bank, and other multilateral development banks (MDBs) are excluded from debt restructuring …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014347019
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Global Taxation and National Welfare States
Jha, Priyaranjan; Mukherjee, Rahul - 2023
This paper studies the effects of globalization on the ability of governments to generate tax revenues for the financing of national welfare states. In this context, it summarizes the theoretical predictions of various economic models of tax competition between countries and discusses the role...
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