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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 preferences for family supports, which we refer to as "informal family insurance". We exploit both cross-country and cohort variation in EC in a large sample of Central and Eastern...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012312212
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State visits and international trade
Nitsch, Volker (contributor) - 2005
Politicians travel extensively abroad, for various reasons. One purpose of external visits is to improve bilateral economic relations. In this paper, I examine the effect of state visits on international trade. I use a large data set covering the travel activities of the heads of state of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003202927
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On the time-varying impact of China's bilateral political relations on its trading partners (1960-2022)
Afonso, António; Mignon, Valérie; Saadaoui, Jamel - 2023
We assess the impact of China's bilateral political relations with three main trading partners-the US, Germany, and the UK-on current account balances and exchange rates, over the 1960Q1-2022Q4 period. Relying on the lag-augmented VAR approach with time-varying Granger causality tests, we find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014443830
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The long-term costs of government surveillance : insights from Stasi spying in East Germany
Lichter, Andreas; Löffler, Max; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2016
Despite the prevalence of government surveillance systems around the world, causal evidence on their social and economic consequences is lacking. Using county-level variation in the number of Stasi informers within Socialist East Germany during the 1980s and accounting for potential endogeneity,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011521867
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Are the supporters of socialism the losers of capitalism? : conformism in East Germany and transition success
Deter, Max; Lange, Martin - 2021
The empirical literature is inconclusive about whether a country's democratization goes hand in hand with a reallocation of economic resources. With newly available individual-level data of former residents of the socialist German Democratic Republic (GDR), we analyse how supporters and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012745263
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External threat, group identity, and support for common policies - the effect of the Russian invasion in Ukraine on European Union identity
Gehring, Kai - 2020
A major theory from social psychology claims that external threats can strengthen group identities and cooperation. This paper exploits the Russian invasion in Ukraine 2014 as a sudden increase in the perceived military threat for eastern European Union member states, in particular for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012154602
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Chain of legitimacy : constitution making in Iceland
Thorvaldur Gylfason - 2016
national parliament cannot, without undermining its own legitimacy, allow the results of a constitutional referendum to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011515362
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Culture, institutions & the long divergence
Bisin, Alberto; Rubin, Jared; Seror, Avner; Verdier, Thierry - 2021
(over-)reliance on religious legitimacy, use of slave soldiers, and persistence of restrictive proscriptions of religious …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012433961
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Perceived legitimacy and motivation effects of authority
Herz, Holger; Zihlmann, Christian - 2024
legitimacy of organizational structure. To this end, we design a laboratory experiment in which we exogenously manipulate the … organizational structure in a way that leaves the incentives of all individuals unaffected, but changes the perceived legitimacy of … incentive effects and that the observed changes are significantly associated with changes in perceived legitimacy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014470431
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Leadership and climate policy
Mideksa, Torben K. - 2021
This paper examines leadership in relation to supplying a global public good. Both the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement encourage the developed countries to take a lead in reducing emissions. Does a country benefit from taking a lead? When does leadership improve global welfare? The answer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012509563