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Religion and Growth
Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2023
preferences, societal norms, and institutions. Religion affects physical capital accumulation by influencing thrift and financial … – together with standard growth models to frame the role of religion in economic growth. Unifying a growing literature, we argue … that religion can enhance or impinge upon economic growth through all four elements because it shapes individual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014467756
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Religion and trust: an experimental study
Tan, Jonathan H. W.; Vogel, Claudia - 2005
We investigate the relationship between religion and trust. Using a questionnaire, we measure: i) general religiosity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297242
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A micro-foundation for non-deterministic contests of the logit form
Dahm, Matthias; Porteiro, Nicolás - 2005
In models of non-deterministic contest, players exert irreversible effort in order to increase their probability of winning a prize. The most prominent functional form of the win probability in the literature is the so-called logit" contest success function. We provide a simple micro-foundation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266296
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Proxy wars
Konyukhovskiy, Pavel V.; Grigoriadis, Theocharis - 2018
Proxy wars are a key pattern of political conflict and interstate competition. Rather than resorting to direct conflicts, which are costly and entail a higher level of uncertainty, governments may opt for proxy wars, which may last longer, but are less costly and render them more immune to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011807010
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1680-1747 Ottoman Budgets and Deficits Sustainability in a Period of Fiscal Transition: Wars and Administrative Changes
Berument, Hakan; Oguz, Nuray - 2004
This paper studies the sustainability of the Ottoman budget for the period from 1680 to 1747, during different sultanates and war eras. Moreover, we investigate whether the relationship between government revenues and expenditures changes in the period of culus. The empirical evidence gathered...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010322109
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Diversity & empire: Baltic Germans & comparative development
Vitola, Alise; Grigoriadis, Theocharis - 2018
In this paper, we explore the long-run effects of cultural and imperial legacies in the Baltic region. Drawing evidence from the 1897 population census in the Russian Empire, we find that localities with a higher share of German historical population are inclined to be more developed in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011815112
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The French Revolution and German industrialization: The new institutional economics rewrites history
Kopsidis, Michael; Bromley, Daniel W. - 2014
Our purpose here is to challenge the big-bang approach to economic history in which some alleged institutional imposition - a deus machine - is claimed to launch a series of new economic behaviors. This so-called prime mover is then carried forward by the inexorable forces of path dependency to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010368515
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Domestic facilitators and impediments to EU democracy promotion in its Eastern neighbourhood: The cost-benefit balance of norm adoption
Buscaneanu, Sergiu - 2016
nature of main political institutions depends on the regime. The road from institutions to the regime is a two-way road …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011443950
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Robin Hood in reverse: Persistence and barriers to redistributive fiscal policy
Cavalcante, Pedro - 2021
Despite improvements in the living conditions of the population, there has not been a significant change in income disparities. Since the growth of left-wing parties and political competition as per the median voter hypothesis do not stand in the Brazilian case, what could explain the tenacity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012671223
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East Prussia 2.0: Persistent regions, rising nations
Polugodina, Maria; Grigoriadis, Theocharis - 2020
institutions, and specifically East Prussian legacies of nationalistic and conservative political preferences, persist in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012208791