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Rugged Individualism and Collective (In)Action During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Bazzi, Samuel - 2020

Rugged individualism—the combination of individualism and anti-statism—is a prominent feature of American culture with deep roots in the country's history of frontier settlement. Today, rugged individualism is more prevalent in counties with greater total frontier experience (TFE) during the...

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Voluntary Associations, Corporate Rights, and the State : Legal Constraints on the Development of American Civil Society, 1750-1900

Bloch, Ruth H. - 2015

The freedom of citizens to form voluntary associations has long been viewed as an essential ingredient of modern civil … society. Our chapter revises the standard Tocquevillian account of associational freedom in the early United States by …

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Lost Decades : Lessons from Post-Independence Latin America for Today's Africa

Bates, Robert - 2007

Africa and Latin America secured their independence from European colonial rule a century and half apart: most of Latin America after 1820 and most of Africa after 1960. Despite the distance in time and space, they share important similarities. In each case independence was followed by political...

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Manumission in Nineteenth Century Virginia

Bodenhorn, Howard - 2010

A long-standing debate concerns the rationality of slave owners and this paper addresses that debate within the context of manumission. Using a new sample of 19th-century Virginia manumissions, I show that manumission was associated with the productive characteristics of slaves. More productive...

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The Guarantees of Freedom

La Porta, Rafael; Lopez de Silanes, Florencio; … - 2021

Hayek (1960) distinguishes the institutions of English freedom, which guarantee the independence of judges from … political interference in the administration of justice, from those of American freedom, which allow judges to restrain law … reflect these institutions of English and American freedom, and ask whether these rules predict economic and political freedom …

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Poverty, Political Freedom, and the Roots of Terrorism

Abadie, Alberto - 2021

-specific characteristics such as the level of political freedom are taken into account. Political freedom is shown to explain terrorism, but it … does so in a non-monotonic way: countries in some intermediate range of political freedom are shown to be more prone to … terrorism than countries with high levels of political freedom or countries with highly authoritarian regimes. This result …

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Pricing When Customers Care About Fairness But Misinfer Markups

Eyster, Erik; Madarasz, Kristof; Michaillat, Pascal - 2023

This paper proposes a theory of price rigidity consistent with survey evidence that firms stabilize prices out of fairness to their consumers. The theory relies on two psychological assumptions. First, customers care about the fairness of prices: fixing the price of a good, consumers enjoy it...

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Policy vs. Consumer Pressure : Innovation and Diffusion of Alternative Bleaching Technologies in the Pulp Industry

Popp, David - 2012

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, concern over dioxin in both paper products and wastewater led to the development of techniques that reduced the use of chlorine in the pulp industry. Both regulatory and consumer pressure motivated this change. We use patent data to examine the evolution of two...

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International Portfolio Allocation Under Model Uncertainty

Benigno, Pierpaolo - 2010

This paper proposes an explanation of the international home bias in equity based on ambiguity aversion. Doubts imply an additional hedging motif driven by the interaction between real exchange rate risk and ambiguity aversion. What matters is the long-run as opposed to the short-run risk....

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The First of the Month Effect : Consumer Behavior and Store Responses

Hastings, Justine S. - 2010

Previous research has used survey and diary data to carefully document that Food Stamp recipients decrease their expenditures and consumption of food throughout the benefit month, the beginning of which is defined by the date on which benefits are distributed. The reliance on survey and diary...

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