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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 question, we use the reunification of Germany as a natural experiment and study the post-reunification trajectory of convergence with regard to individuals' trust and risk, as well...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008697515
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Was Weber wrong? : a human capital theory of protestant economic history
Becker, Sascha O. (contributor);  … - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003497633
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The effect of protestantism on education before the industrialization : evidence from 1816 Prussia
Becker, Sascha O.; Woessmann, Ludger - 2010
This paper uses recently discovered data on nearly 300 Prussian counties in 1816 to show that Protestantism led to more schools and higher school enrolment already before the industrialization. This evidence supports the human capital theory of Protestant economic history of Becker and Woessmann...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003925192
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Commercial culture, political culture and the political economy of trade policy : the case of Japan
Katayama, Seiichi; Ursprung, Heinrich W. - 2000
In this paper we present a model of endogenous trade-policy formation which captures crucial aspects of the Japanese commercial and political culture. We analyze the influence of the portrayed cultural traits and show that cultural idiosyncrasies are important determinants of trade policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781589
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Trade retaliation in a monetary-trade model
Whalley, John; Yu, Jun; Zhang, Shunming - 2009
goods trade model which also captures trade through time in the form of inside money as used in macro literature on one good … way. -- Inside money ; general equilibrium ; Nash equilibrium ; numerical analysis ; tariff rate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003806727
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Money, credit and banking
Berentsen, Aleksander (contributor);  … - 2005
In monetary models in which agents are subject to trading shocks there is typically an ex-post inefficiency in that some agents are holding idle balances while others are cash constrained. This inefficiency creates a role for financial intermediaries, such as banks, who accept nominal deposits...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003297591
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Risk-taking on behalf of others
Eriksen, Kristoffer W.; Kvaløy, Ola; Luzuriaga, Miguel - 2017
methods, and study how each subject makes decisions both on behalf of own money and on behalf of another individual’s money …. We find a weak tendency of lower risk-taking with others' money compared to own money. However, subjects believe that … other participants take more risk with other people's money than with their own. At the same time, subjects on average think …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011615822
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013383434
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003923223