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Does democracy make taller men? : cross-country European evidence
Batinti, Alberto; Costa-Font, Joan - 2021 - This version: January 2022
communism. …
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The separation and reunification of Germany : rethinking a natural experiment interpretation of the enduring effects of communism
Becker, Sascha O.; Mergele, Lukas; Woessmann, Ludger - 2020
described as a natural experiment to study the enduring effects of communism. We show in three steps that the populations in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012177137
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A different look at Lenin's legacy : trust, risk, fairness and cooperativeness in the two Germanies
Heineck, Guido; Süssmuth, Bernd - 2010
What are the long-term effects of Communism on economically relevant notions such as social trust? To answer this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008697515
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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;...
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Comrades in the family? : Soviet communism and informal family insurance
Costa-Font, Joan; Nicińska, Anna - 2020
We study the effect of exposure to communism (EC), a political-economic regime based on collectivist planning, on … variation in EC in a large sample of Central and Eastern European countries (CEEC). Against the backdrop that ‘communism gives …, suggesting that (raising uncertainty and adversity during) communism increased the demand for all types of available insurance. …
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The rise of capitalism and the roots of Anti-American terrorism
Krieger, Tim; Meierieks, Daniel - 2014
This contribution examines the role of capitalism in anti-American terrorism. Using data for 149 countries between 1970 …, consistent with economic norms theory, higher levels of market-capitalism are associated with less anti-American terrorism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010375158
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Running the U.S. economy at full throttle is a stressful variant of capitalism
Komlos, John - 2022
Maximizing output without taking into consideration the negative externalities generated, including the harm to the mental and physical health of the population creates psychological stress. Focusing on the bellwether indicators of economic performance including working more, generating income,...
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Towards behavioral political economy of institutional change : with field facts from China
Zhang, Yongjing; Wang, Mei - 2014
This study proposes an analytical framework towards behavioral political economy of institutional change. It considers institutional changes as central government’s choices under uncertainty, which are largely driven by the strategic outcomes in a behavioral coordination game between local...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010404541
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Financial returns to collecting rare political economy books
Ursprung, Heinrich W. - 2021
Rare books of political economy are eminently collectable. Using historical prices, I employ hedonic regressions to estimate financial returns to collecting the works of ten eminent political economists and develop a price index for this corpus of collectables. For the observation period...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012437910
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Politics-business interaction paths
Belloc, Marianna; Pagano, Ugo - 2009
Most pre-crisis explanations of the various corporate governance systems have considered the separation between ownership and control to be an advantage of the Anglo-American economies. They have also attributed the failure of other countries to achieve these efficient arrangements to their...
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