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The Organizational Implications of Creativity : The US Film Industry in Mid-XXth Century
Gil, Ricard - 2007
fundamental tradeoff in organizing such activities. On the one hand, since creativity cannot be achieved by command and control or … creative talent. Procuring highly creative products in the market place, though, exposes the distributor to a fundamental risk …, distributors face the unavoidable winner's curse risk. Since this risk is, to a large extent, independent of the creative nature of …
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Movies
Michalopulos, Stelios; Rauh, Christopher - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
on the depiction of risk and gender roles. Films that promote risk-taking sell more in entrepreneurial societies today …
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Innovators : Filmmakers
Galenson, David W. - 2010
followed sharply contrasting life cycles of creativity …
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The Political Effects of Immigration : Culture or Economics?
Alesina, Alberto; Tabellini, Marco - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We review the growing literature on the political economy of immigration. First, we discuss the effects of immigration on a wide range of political and social outcomes. The existing evidence suggests that immigrants often, but not always, trigger backlash, increasing support for anti-immigrant...
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Unpacking Social Capital
Durante, Ruben; Mastrorocco, Nicola; Minale, Luigi; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We use novel and unique survey data from Italy to shed light on key questions regarding the measurement of social capital and the use of social capital indicators for empirical work. Our data cover a sample of over 600,000 respondents interviewed between 2000 and 2015. We identify four distinct...
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Culture in Historical Political Economy
Lowes, Sara - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Culture - the set of socially transmitted values and beliefs held by individuals - has important implications for a wide variety of economic outcomes. Both the causes and consequences of culture have been the subject of work in Historical Political Economy. I first outline several theories on...
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Culture Clash : Incompatible Reputation Mechanisms and Intergroup Conflict
Fouka, Vasiliki; Schläpfer, Alain - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Under what conditions does intergroup contact lead to conflict? We provide a novel answer to this question by highlighting the role of reputation mechanisms in sustaining cooperation. Reputational concerns can deter defection in one-time interactions within a group, but the informational content...
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Are Immigrants more Left leaning than Natives?
Moriconi, Simone; Peri, Giovanni; Turati, Riccardo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We analyze whether second-generation immigrants have different political preferences relative to observationally identical children of citizens in the host countries. Using data on individual voting behavior in 22 European countries between 2001 and 2017, we characterize each vote on a...
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Ancestral Livelihoods and Moral Universalism : Evidence from Transhumant Pastoralist Societies
Le Rossignol, Etienne; Lowes, Sara - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Moral universalism, the extent to which individuals exhibit similar altruism and trust towards in-group and out-group members, varies widely across societies. We test the hypothesis from anthropology that the requirements of transhumant pastoralism - a livelihood in which populations seasonally...
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Ethnic Remoteness Reduces the Peace Dividend from Trade Access
Desmet, Klaus; Gomes, Joseph Flavian - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper shows that ethnically remote locations do not reap the full peace dividend from increased market access. Exploiting the staggered implementation of the US-initiated Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) and using high-resolution data on ethnic composition and violent conflict for...
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