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Whom can you trust? Reputation and cooperation in networks
King, Maia - 2017
network that connects them. We find that information supports cooperation by increasing trust between players, and obtain the …Community enforcement is an important device for sustaining efficiency in some repeated games of cooperation. We … investigate cooperation when information about players' reputations spreads to their future partners through links in a social …
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Popular Perceptions and Political Economy in the Contrived World of Harry Potter
Snir, Avichai; Levy, Daniel - 2005
Economic organization of the imaginary worlds depicted in popular literary works may be viewed as a mirror to public opinion on the economic organization of life. If a book becomes a best-seller, it is because the book conveys messages, feelings, and events the readers can relate to. In other...
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Potterian economics
Levy, Daniel C.; Snir, Avichai - 2017
Recent studies in psychology and neuroscience find that fictional works exert strong influence on readers and shape their opinions and worldviews. We study the Potterian economy, which we compare to economic models, to assess how Harry Potter books affect economic literacy. We find that some...
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Community structure and market outcomes: A repeated games in networks approach
Fainmesser, Itay P. - 2010
determine whether a network is consistent with trade and cooperation between every buyer and seller that are connected. We show … that three network features reduce the minimal discount factor necessary for sustaining cooperation: moderate competition …
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Civic capital and the size distribution of plants: Short-run dynamics and long-run equilibrium
Burker, Mathias; Minerva, G. Alfredo - 2012
We characterize how the size distribution of plants, within narrowly defined industries, changed in Italy over a ten-year time span, and relate this to the stock of civic capital at the provincial level. Data on plant size come from the 1991 and 2001 Italian censuses. Civic capital turns out to...
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Geographical origins of language structures
Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer; Sarid, Assaf - 2018
This research explores the geographical origins of the coevolution of cultural and linguistic traits in the course of human history, relating the geographical roots of long-term orientation to the structure of the future tense, the agricultural determinants of gender bias to the presence of...
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An Empirical Analysis of the Dynamics of the Welfare State: The Case of Benefit Morale
Halla, Martin; Lackner, Mario; Schneider, Friedrich G. - 2009
Does the supply of a welfare state create its own demand? Many economic scholars studying welfare arrangements refer to Say's law and insinuate a self-destructive welfare state. However, little is known about the empirical validity of these assumptions and hypotheses. We study the dynamic effect...
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Tax Morale and Compliance Behavior: First Evidence on a Causal Link
Halla, Martin - 2010
Recent literature on tax evasion emphasizes the importance of moral considerations to explain compliance behavior. As a consequence scholars aim to identify factors that shape this so-called tax morale. However, the causal link between tax morale and actual compliance behavior is not established...
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The Link between the Intrinsic Motivation to Comply and Compliance Behavior A Critical Appraisal of Existing Evidence
Halla, Martin - 2010
Recent economic literature emphasizes the importance of moral considerations to explain compliance behavior with respect to underground activities such as tax evasion. A considerable amount of research aims to identify factors that affect the intrinsic motivation to comply. However, the causal...
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Trust and racial income inequality: Evidence from the U.S.
Tesei, Andrea - 2015
Existing studies of trust formation in U.S. metropolitan areas have found that trust is lower when there is more income … groups (racial income inequality). I find that greater racial income inequality reduces trust. Also, racial fragmentation is … no longer a significant determinant of trust once racial income inequality is accounted for. I also show that racial …
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