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This paper explores intergenerational transmission of culture and the consequences of a plausible assumption: that … people care not only for their children's culture but also for how their grand-children are raised. This departs from the …
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cultural stereotypes at the bank level, we show that corporate culture at bank headquarters is influenced by foreign …. We therefore leverage the geography of multinational bank branch networks to construct a bank-specific measure of culture …
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culture from other confounds, however, is often a daunting, sometimes intractable challenge for the working empiricist. To … of the border. Our results show multiple discontinuities and thus indicate a potential role of culture to shape …
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; and ii) the capacity for culture to affect beliefs by randomly providing previous-session cooperation-rate information …The impact of culture on non-kin cooperation has been singled out as critical for economic activity. However, causal … evidence of culture's influence on cooperation remains scant. In this paper we provide such evidence, focusing on two key …
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This paper analyzes to what extent gender culture affects gender gap in employment. Drawing on Italian data, we measure … culture by building two indices: one based on individual attitudes, as done in the existing literature; one based on firms … gender culture based on firms' attitudes is significant in explaining gender gap in employment in Italian provinces. We show …
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agents have unobservable intrinsic motivation levels. I show that the non-contractibility of effort (asymmetric information …
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technological advantage, superior corporate culture, and statusseeking by workers and by consumers can make small initial …
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Corporate scandals, reflected in excessive management compensation and fraudulent accounts, cause considerable damage. Agency theory’s insistence on linking the compensation of managers and directors as closely as possible to firm performance is a major reason for these scandals. They cannot...
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the host country’s culture. While migrants do act as vectors of cultural diffusion and bring about cultural convergence …
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' strategies to unforeseen change in an efficient manner. We explore whether part of organizational culture - namely, relational … difficulty of building such an organizational culture, which is consistent with the idea that high-performing relational …
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