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Cultural psychologists and anthropologists argue that societies have developed heterogeneous systems of social organization to cope with social dilemmas, and that an entire bundle of psychological and biological characteristics has coevolved to enforce cooperation within these different regimes....
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In the past decade, nearly 20 studies have found a strong, persistent pattern in surveys and behavioral experiments from over 40 countries: individual exposure to war violence tends to increase social cooperation at the local level, including community participation and prosocial behavior. Thus...
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Even though teams have become the dominant mode of knowledge production, little is known regarding how they divide work among their members. Conceptualizing knowledge production as a process involving a number of functional activities, we first develop a conceptual framework to study the...
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We use several data sets to consider the effect of teaching practices on student beliefs, as well as on organization of firms and institutions. In cross-country data, we show that teaching practices (such as copying from the board versus working on projects together) are strongly related to...
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This paper argues that if policymakers seek to enhance global liquidity, then the international community must provide a higher and better coordinated level of fiscal support than it has in the past. Loans to troubled sovereigns or financial institutions imply a credit risk that ultimately must...
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decouple via 'preferential attachment' - id est by aligning themselves with the hub they trade most with. All global technology … straddle multiple hubs generally lose, whereas those whose trade is heavily concentrated with one hub may gain due to reduced …
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This paper surveys the literature on the relationship between international trade and inclusive growth. It examines … claims that the rise in inequality in many countries can be attributed to the concurrent rise in trade competition …, especially from EMEs like China, spurring trade tensions and protectionist measures. The paper investigates the conflicting …
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gains from trade. Those gains are realized through exchange rate adjustments that cause a temporary reallocation of … containment policies that aim at optimizing global welfare further enhances the ability of countries to exploit trade …
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. Conflict is also associated with dramatic declines in official trade, with exports (imports) estimated to be 58 (34) percent …
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general equilibrium (CGE) trade model calibrated to 165 countries. The first scenario estimates effects from potential U … to capture dynamic effects, such as those stemming from trade policy uncertainty. More generally, our results both …
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