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Herding, warfare, and a culture of honor : global evidence
Cao, Yiming; Enke, Benjamin; Falk, Armin; Giuliano, Paola; … - 2022
According to the widely known ‘culture of honor’ hypothesis from social psychology, traditional herding practices have …
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Pacem in terris : are papal visits good news for human rights?
Endrich, Marek; Gutmannn, Jerg - 2022
model of the strategic interaction between the Catholic Church and host governments shows how the pope’s use of conditional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012886560
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Barriers to global capital allocation
Pellegrino, Bruno; Spolaore, Enrico; Wacziarg, Romain - 2021
benchmark calibration, we estimate that the capital misallocation induced by these barriers reduces World GDP by 7%, compared to …-country inequality: the standard deviation of log capital per employee is 80% higher than it would be in a world without barriers to …
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Moral universalism : global evidence
Cappelen, Alexander W.; Enke, Benjamin; Tungodden, Bertil - 2022
This paper presents novel stylized facts about the global variation in universalism, leveraging nationally representative surveys across 60 countries (N=64,000). We find large variation in universalism within and across countries, which almost entirely reflects heterogeneity in people's moral...
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Culture, diversity, and the welfare state
Gründler, Klaus; Köllner, Sebastian - 2018
We show that culture and diversity strongly influence welfare systems around the globe. To disentangle culture from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011789109
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Cultural distance and ethnic civil conflict
Guarnieri, Eleonora - 2023
Ethnically diverse countries are more prone to conflict, but why do some groups engage in conflict while others do not? I show that civil conflict is explained by ethnic groups' cultural distance to the central government: an increase in cultural distance, proxied by linguistic distance,...
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Spatial exporters
Defever, Fabrice; Heid, Benedikt; Larch, Mario - 2011
In this paper, we provide evidence that expanding firms tend to serve new markets which are geographically close and culturally related to their prior export destinations. We quantify the impact of this spatial pattern using a Chinese firm-level data set. To ensure an exogenous set of potential...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009388381
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The costs of favoritism : is politically-driven aid less effective?
Dreher, Axel; Klasen, Stephan; Vreeland, James Raymond; … - 2010
World Bank projects and generally find that projects that are potentially politically motivated - such as those granted to … governments holding a non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council or an Executive Directorship at the World Bank … Council members with higher short-term debt, however, a negative quality rating is more likely. So we find evidence that World …
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What explains sovereign debt litigation
Schumacher, Julian; Trebesch, Christoph; Enderlein, Henrik - 2015
We study the occurrence of holdout litigation in the context of sovereign defaults. The number of creditor lawsuits against foreign governments has strongly increased over the past decades, but there is a large variation across crisis events. Why are some defaults followed by a "run to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010512583
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Sovereign debt relief and its aftermath
Reinhart, Carmen M.; Trebesch, Christoph - 2015
in advanced economies after World War I; and 1978-2010, focusing on emerging market debt crises with private external …
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