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Can Integrity Replace Institutions? Theory and Evidence

Aharonovitz, Gilad D. - 2009

Institutions are important for proper economic performance, but are replaceable by trust or other social norms. We show that when proper institutions and trust are missing, integrity of the individuals can replace them. We construct a model of a transactions-based economy with contracts...

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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 …

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Economic Freedom and Religion : An Empirical Investigation

Hillman, Arye L. - 2016

, there has been little study of the determinants of economic freedom. We investigate whether religion affects economic …

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Religious Tolerance as Engine of Innovation

Cinnirella, Francesco - 2018

We argue that, for a given level of scientific knowledge, tolerance and diversity are conducive to technological creativity and innovation. In particular, we show that variations in innovation within Prussia during the second industrial revolution can be ascribed to differences in religious...

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Policies Against Human Trafficking : The Role of Religion and Political Institutions

Potrafke, Niklas - 2021

I investigate empirically the role of religion and political institutions in policies against human trafficking, using … influence of religion on the overall 3P Anti-trafficking Policy Index is driven by protection and prevention policies. As … empirical findings regarding the association between religion, political institutions, and human development …

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Suicide Attacks and Religious Cleavages

Filote, Andra - 2015

Many experts claim that the incidence of suicide attacks is driven by religious cleavages. To test this hypothesis, we investigate whether the total number of suicide attacks per violent conflict or the annual number of suicide attacks per country is associated with simmering religious...

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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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Ordoliberalism, Pragmatism and the Eurozone Crisis : How the German Tradition Shaped Economic Policy in Europe

Feld, Lars P. - 2015

German policy during the Eurozone crisis supposedly follows an ordoliberal tradition. In this paper, we discuss to what extent this contention holds and to what extent Germany pragmatically responded to different crisis phenomena. A proper analysis of ordoliberal thinking reveals that the...

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A Structural Topic Model of the Features and the Cultural Origins of the Baconian Program

Grajzl, Peter - 2018

We use machine-learning methods to study the features and origins of the ideas of Francis Bacon, a key figure who contributed to the intellectual roots of a cultural paradigm that spurred modern economic development. Bacon's works are the data in an estimation of a structural topic model, a...

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