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Culture and Cooperation
Gaechter, Simon; Herrmann, Benedikt; Thöni, Christian - 2021
-1367), who study cooperation and punishment in sixteen subject pools from six different world cultures (as classified by … cultural background relative to individual heterogeneity and group-level differences in cooperation. We find that culture has a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316208
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Ancestry, Language and Culture
Spolaore, Enrico - 2015
based on differences in average answers to questions from the World Values Survey. Using a simple theoretical model we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013020583
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Does Culture Affect Unemployment? Evidence from the Röstigraben
Brügger, Beatrix - 2009
This paper studies the role of culture in shaping unemployment outcomes. The empirical analysis is based on local … political jurisdictions. Local contrasts across the language border identify the role of culture for unemployment. Our findings … indicate that differences in culture explain differences in unemployment duration on the order of 20 %. Moreover, we find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013157850
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Somatic Distance, Cultural Affinities, Trust and Trade
Melitz, Jacques - 2018
Somatic distance, or differences in physical appearance, proves to be extremely important in the gravity model of bilateral trade in conformity with results in other areas of economics and outside of it in the social sciences. This is also true quite independently of survey evidence about...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012915457
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Cultural Integration and Export Variety Overlap Across Countries
Egger, Peter H. - 2014
This paper assesses the role of a larger degree of common language use between the populations of two countries on the so-called extensive product margin of trade. We focus on the overlap of products exported or imported between any pair of countries. The results suggest that the effect of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013052069
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Emotion at Stake : The Role of Stake Size and Emotions in a Power-To-Take Game Experiment in China with a Comparison to Europe
Bosman, Ronald - 2016
This paper experimentally investigates how monetary incentives and emotions influence behaviour in a two-player power-to-take game. In this game, one player can claim any part of the other's endowment (take rate), and the second player can respond by destroying his or her own endowment. We focus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012992607
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Should Immigrants Culturally Assimilate or Preserve Their Own Culture? Individual Beliefs and the Longevity of National Identity
Grajzl, Peter - 2017
We develop and empirically test a theory concerning individual beliefs about whether immigrants should culturally assimilate into the host society or preserve their own cultural norms. We argue that when national identity is a source of intrinsic utility, the longevity of national identity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012954570
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Global Collaborative Patents
Kerr, Sari Pekkala; Kerr, William - 2021
We study the prevalence and traits of global collaborative patents for U.S. public companies, where the inventor team is located both within and outside of the United States. Collaborative patents are frequently observed when a corporation is entering into a new foreign region for innovative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315478
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The Empire is Dead, Long Live the Empire! Long-Run Persistence of Trust and Corruption in the Bureaucracy
Becker, Sascha O.; Boeckh, Katrin; Hainz, Christa; … - 2021
Do empires affect attitudes towards the state long after their demise? We hypothesize that the Habsburg Empire with its localized and well-respected administration increased citizens’ trust in local public services. In several Eastern European countries, communities on both sides of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316041
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Do Emigrants Self-Select Along Cultural Traits? Evidence from the MENA Countries
Docquier, Frédéric - 2018
religiosity and gender-egalitarian attitudes. To do so, we use Gallup World Poll data on individual opinions and beliefs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012929247