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Weber revisited: The protestant ethic and the spirit of nationalism

Kersting, Felix; Wohnsiedler, Iris; Wolf, Nikolaus - 2019

We revisit Max Weber's hypothesis on the role of Protestantism for economic development. We show that nationalism is crucial to both, the interpretation of Weber's Protestant Ethic and empirical tests thereof. For late 19th century Prussia we reject Weber's suggestion that Protestantism mattered...

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The Impact of Social Media On Belief Formation

Schwarz, Marco A. - 2017

Social media are becoming increasingly important in our society and change the way people communicate, how they acquire information, and how they form beliefs. Experts are concerned that the rise of social media may make interaction and information exchange among like-minded individuals more...

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A Model of Ideological Thinking

Le Yaouanq, Yves - 2018

evidence produces a temporary polarization of beliefs, but that disclosing unequivocal information eliminates the disagreement. …

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Dynamic collective choice with endogenous status quo

Dziuda, Wioletta; Loeper, Antoine - 2012

status quo exacerbates the players' conflict of interest and decreases the responsiveness of the bargaining outcome to the …

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Religion and Growth

Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2023

unleashing technological change and through rituals, legal institutions, political economy, and conflict. Synthesizing a disjoint …

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From friends to foes: National identity and collaboration in diverse teams

Laurentsyeva, Nadzeya - 2019

conflict makes national diversity more salient among existing and potential team members. I exploit this natural experiment to …, the world's largest hosting platform for software projects, I estimate the causal impacts of a political conflict that … burst out between Russia and Ukraine in 2014. I find that the conflict strongly reduced online cooperation between Russian …

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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...

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Local far-right demonstrations and nationwide public attitudes toward migration

Freitas Monteiro, Teresa; Prömel, Christopher - 2024

One of the primary objectives of protests and demonstrations is to bring social, political, or economic issues to the attention of politicians and the wider population. While protests can have a mobilizing and persuading effect, they may reduce support for their cause if they are perceived as a...

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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 … the double principal-agent relationship predicts the continuation of conflict and thus the emergence of peace. …

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Automation and Polarization

Acemoglu, Daron; Loebbing, Jonas - 2023

of capital (or an increase in capital productivity) causes employment and wage polarization. Specifically, further … automation - thereafter inducing monotone increases in skill premia rather than wage polarization. …

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