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valuesdriven identities: individualism (focused on status concerns), communitarianism (focused on the benefits of social …
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involved. This seems to contradict normative individualism, which provides the general orientation to our modern democracies … actions, there is no longer a necessary contradiction between paternalism and normative individualism. As far as we know today …
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This paper models the welfare consequences of social fragmentation arising from technological advance. We start from the premise that technological progress falls primarily on market-traded commodities rather than prosocial relationships, since the latter intrinsically require the expenditure of...
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There is an ongoing debate about the economic effects of individualism. We establish that individualism leads to better … of individualism by exploiting variation between migrants at the origin country, origin language, and person level … adult education activities. In fact, individualism is more important in explaining adult skill formation than any other …
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, and is rooted in normative individualism. It provides a benchmark by which rules and institutions can be judged as …
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Although there is much interest in the future retail price of gasoline among consumers, industry analysts, and policymakers, it is widely believed that changes in the price of gasoline are essentially unforecastable given publicly available information. We explore several new forecasting...
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This paper examines the reflexive interplay between individual decisions and social forces to analyze the evolution of cooperation in the presence of "multi-directedness," whereby people's preferences depend on their psychological motives. People have access to multiple, discrete motives....
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This paper scrutinizes the effects of investor-state dispute settlements (ISDS) and national treatment provisions in a two-period model where foreign investment is subject to domestic regulation and a holdup problem. It shows that ISDS can mitigate the holdup problem and increases aggregate...
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Do migrants shape the dynamic comparative advantage of their sending and receiving countries? To answer this question we study the drivers of knowledge diffusion by looking at the dynamics of the export basket of countries, with particular focus on migration. The fact that knowledge diffusion...
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