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It has been argued that Asia's remarkable economic achievements of the past 50 years build on institutional arrangements very different from the West, notably the central role of business groups (BGs). As Asian economies move from extensive to intensive growth, we enquire whether the business...
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We merge firm-level data on ownership linkages with administrative data on German workers to analyze how the position in a business group hierarchy affects workers' wages. To acknowledge that ownership linkages are not onedirectional, we propose an index of hierarchical distance to the ultimate...
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Business groups, which are ubiquitous in emerging market economies, balance the advantages of characteristics such as internal capital markets with the disadvantages such as inefficient internal distribution of resources and suppression of technological and other forms of innovativeness. In this...
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and social norms, and trust. In a preregistered online experiment (n = 1,038), we find that biased institutions reduce … to no enforcement. We also find that social heterogeneity lowers average trust and induces ingroup favouritism in trust … positively into norms and trust. Our study contributes to the literature on behavioural responses to institutional design and …
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Trust is a concept that has attracted - significant attention in economic theory and research within the last two … experiments claiming to measure trust, and how these different measures are related. Using nationally representative data, we test … a commonly used experimental measure of trust for robustness to a number of interferences, finding it to be mostly …
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We examine the effects of social preferences and beliefs about the social preferences of others in a simple leader-follower voluntary contributions game. We find that groups perform best when led by those who are reciprocally oriented. Part of the effect can be explained by a false consensus...
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In recent years, many social scientists have claimed that trust plays an important role in economic and social … transactions. Despite its proposed importance, the measurement and the definition of trust seem to be not fully settled, and the … identification of the exact role of trust in economic interactions has proven to be elusive. It is still not clear whether trust is …
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Domestic violence is a serious under-reported crime in the United States, especially among immigrant women. While the Violence against Women Act (VAWA) allows battered immigrants to petition for legal status without relying on abusive U.S. citizen or legal permanent resident spouses, we find...
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dynamics of trust in public institutions in Lebanon. It finds strong evidence that confidence in most public institutions has … ordinal categories of trust and to assumptions on the missing values generating process. This finding highlights the …
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Trust and trustworthiness are important components of social capital and much attention has been devoted to their … correct evaluation. In this paper, we argue that individuals' trust and trustworthiness are strongly dependent on the level of … trust and trustworthiness of the social group in which subjects operate. Attitudinal indicators which are often used to …
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