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Weber revisited : the protestant ethic and the spirit of nationalism
Kersting, Felix; Wohnsiedler, Iris; Wolf, Nikolaus - 2020
We revisit Max Weber's hypothesis on the role of Protestantism for economic development. We show that nationalism is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012244499
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Immigration and nationalism in the long run
Lang, Valentin; Schneider, Stephan A. - 2023
experience with immigration can curb nationalism. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014334359
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Economic nationalism and economic integration : the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the late nineteenth century
Schulze, Max-Stephan; Wolf, Nikolaus - 2009
nineteenth century Habsburg Empire - one emphasizing the centrifugal impact of rising intra-empire of nationalism, the other … systematically asymmetric, shaped by intensifying intra-empire nationality conflicts. While grain markets in Austria-Hungary became … quarter of a century or so before the outbreak of the First World War. -- Habsburg Empire ; market integration ; nationalism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003888097
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National representation in multinational institutions : the case of the European Central Bank
Badinger, Harald; Nitsch, Volker - 2011
Multinational institutions face an important trade-off when hiring personnel. On the one hand, hiring decisions are based, as in most organizations, on a candidate's professional qualifications. On the other hand, multinational institutions often aim for broad national representation. Reviewing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009301395
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We were the robots : automation and voting behavior in Western Europe
Anelli, Massimo; Colantone, Italo; Stanig, Piero - 2019
conditions and well-being, lower satisfaction with the government and democracy, and a reduction in perceived political self-efficacy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012035056
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The interplay of economic, social and political fragmentation
Bosworth, Steven; Snower, Dennis J. - 2019
This paper examines how skill-biased growth can generate economic fragmentation (income disparities) that give rise to social fragmentation (the adoption of increasingly incompatible social identities and values), which generate political fragmentation (the adoption of increasingly incompatible...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012120280
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Whats in a name?
Aura, Saku; Hess, Gregory D. - 2004
Plenty. This paper analyzes two broad questions: Does your first name matter? And how did you get your first name anyway? Using data from the National Opinion Research Centers (NORC s) General Social Survey, including access to respondents first names from the 1994 and 2002 surveys, we extract...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401361
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Bad boys : how criminal identity salience affects rule violation
Cohn, Alain; Maréchal, Michel André; Noll, Thomas - 2015
We conducted an experiment with 182 inmates from a maximum security prison to analyze the impact of criminal identity … salience on cheating. The results show that inmates cheat more when we exogenously render their criminal identity more salient …. This effect is specific to individuals who have a criminal identity, because an additional placebo experiment shows that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010519915
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Bread and bullets
Akerlof, George A.; Snower, Dennis J. - 2016
Standard economics omits the role of narratives (the stories that people tell themselves and others) when they make all kinds of decisions. Narratives play a role in understanding the environment; focusing attention; predicting events; motivating action; assigning social roles and identities;...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011422534
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Identity-driven cooperation versus competition
Snower, Dennis J.; Bosworth, Steven - 2016
This paper seeks to extend the domain of identity economics by exploring motivational foundations of in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011434452