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The Role of Government and Trust in the Market Economy

König, Nadja - 2018

This paper studies the role of governments and its link to trust. We argue that the public's trust strongly depends on governments delivering on their core tasks in a market economy. In some economies, a neglect of core tasks can be observed and there seems to be some erosion, notably in terms...

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Of Morals, Markets and Mice : A Comment on Falk and Szech

Breyer, Friedrich; Weimann, Joachim - 2021

A recent experimental study by Falk and Szech (Science, 2013) concludes that "markets erode moral values". If this were true, economists, who have emphasized the efficiency enhancing effects of markets for centuries, would have to reconsider their judgments fundamentally. This would be no less...

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Happiness of Economists

Feld, Lars P. - 2014

We study the importance of economists' professional situation toward their life satisfaction based on a unique survey of mostly academic economists. On average, economists report to be highly happy with life. Satisfaction is positively related to spending more time on doing research. The lack of...

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Rationality in Economics : Theory and Evidence

Dhami, Sanjit - 2018

We examine the various senses in which economist use the term “rationality” and then outline some of the commonly drawn implications and auxiliary assumptions. Finally, we confront the implications with the empirical evidence, drawing on the insights from the exciting new field of behavioral...

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Medieval Universities, Legal Institutions, and the Commercial Revolution

Cantoni, Davide - 2013

We present new data documenting medieval Europe's “Commercial Revolution” using information on the establishment of markets in Germany. We use these data to test whether medieval universities played a causal role in expanding economic activity, examining the foundation of Germany's first...

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The Rise of Capitalism and the Roots of Anti-American Terrorism

Krieger, Tim; Meierrieks, Daniel - CESifo - 2014

, consistent with economic norms theory, higher levels of market-capitalism are associated with less anti-American terrorism …This contribution examines the role of capitalism in anti-American terrorism. Using data for 149 countries between 1970 … and 2007, this contribution, contrary to expectations from capitalist peace theory, does not find that Anti …

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The Rise of Capitalism and the Roots of Anti-American Terrorism

Krieger, Tim - 2014

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Political Capitalism : The Interaction between Income Inequality, Economic Freedom and Democracy

Krieger, Tim - 2016

distribution) when inequality is high. We argue that the latter finding corresponds to a system of political capitalism or captured …

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Income Inequality, Capitalism and Ethno-Linguistic Fractionalization

Sturm, Jan-Egbert - 2015

We examine the relationship between capitalism and income inequality for a large sample of countries using an adjusted … economic freedom index as proxy for capitalism and Gini coefficients based on gross-income as proxy for income inequality. Our …

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Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos - 2012

provides a theory of job-to-job transitions that are associated with voluntary or involuntary mobility and with wage rises or …

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