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On the geographic and cultural determinants of bankruptcy

Buehler, Stefan; Kaiser, Christian; Jaeger, Franz - 2007

This paper examines the role of geography and culture in explaining bankruptcy. We adopt survival analyses to model the …

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Tastes, castes, and culture: The influence of society on preferences

Fehr, Ernst; Hoff, Karla - 2011

Economists have traditionally treated preferences as exogenously given. Preferences are assumed to be influenced by neither beliefs nor the constraints people face. As a consequence, changes in behaviour are explained exclusively in terms of changes in the set of feasible alternatives. Here we...

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The happy artist? An empirical application of the work-preference model

Steiner, Lasse; Schneider, Lucian - 2011

The artistic labor market is marked by several adversities, such as low wages, above-average unemployment, and constrained underemployment. Nevertheless, it attracts many young people. The number of students exceeds the available jobs by far. A potential explanation for this puzzle is that...

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Advice and behavior in intergenerational: Ultimatum games: An experimental approach

Schotter, Andrew; Sopher, Barry - 2000

In the real world, when people play games, they often receive advice from those that have played it before them. Such advice can facilitate the creation of a convention of behavior. This paper studies the impact of advice on the behavior subjects who engage in a non-overlapping generational...

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Assimilation through marriage

Epstein, Gil S.; Lindner Pomerantz, Renana - 2012

which the foreign culture influences the local culture, differs across countries. This paper shows how the willingness of … locals and immigrants to intermarry influences the culture and the national identity of the host country. We use a search … culture or the immigrants take on the natives' culture. In the first case we will see new cultures developing and the local …

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Born to be an entrepreneur? How cultural origin affects entrepreneurship

Erhardt, Katharina; Haenni, Simon - 2018

Persistent differences in entrepreneurial activity between regions and countries remain unexplained. This paper argues that cultural heritage is an important determinant. We exploit a quasi-experimental setting comparing entrepreneurial activities of individuals with different cultural ancestry...

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Gender, culture and STEM: Counter-intuitive patterns in Arab society

Friedman-Sokuler, Naomi; Justman, Moshe - 2019

Arab society in Israel offers a counter-example, which calls into question the hypothesis that the male advantage in STEM decreases as gender equality in society increases. Analyzing administrative longitudinal data on students in Hebrew- and Arabic-language schools in Israel, all operating...

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Trust and cooperation at a confluence of worlds: An experiment in Xinjiang, China

Zhang, Zhe; Putterman, Louis G.; Zhang, Xu - 2018

We study trust and willingness to cooperate among and between Uyghur and Han college students in Xinjiang, China, where tensions exist between the two ethnic groups. We conduct an incentivized laboratory-style decision-making experiment in which within and between group interactions occur among...

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Soft power of frugal innovation and its potential role in India's emergence as a global lead market for affordable excellence

Tiwari, Rajnish; Prabhu, Jaideep - 2018

The phenomenon of frugal innovation, as characterized by "affordable excellence", is experiencing increasing acceptance by business leaders, policy makers and scholars around the world. Frugal products, services and technologies strive to radically increase affordability while significantly...

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Does it matter how people speak?

Chong, Alberto - 2006

Language serves two key functions. It enables communication between agents, which allows for the establishment and operation of formal and informal institutions. It also serves a less obvious function, a reassuring quality more closely related to issues linked with trust, social capital, and...

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