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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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Cultural and institutional differences among nations may result in differences in the ratios of marginal costs of goods in autarchy and thus be the basis of specialization and comparative advantage, as long as these differences are not eliminated by trade. We provide an evolutionary model of...
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This paper examines the role of geography and culture in explaining bankruptcy. We adopt survival analyses to model the …
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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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(Kagakugijutsu Hakusho) published by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT). We then endeavour to … understand the significance of our findings for policy making in India. However, the limited scope of this undertaking makes our …
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Do strong states affect the culture and actions of their citizens in a persistent way? And if so, can the capacity to … transmits through changes in culture. Results are consistent with fiscal capacity spurring norms of rule-following able to …
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Do strong states affect the culture and actions of their citizens in a persistent way? And if so, can the capacity to … in culture. Placebo estimates confirm that the effect can be attributed to fiscal capacity and is not confounded by legal …
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The official intention of the UNESCO World Heritage List is to protect the global heritage. However, the existing List is highly imbalanced according to countries and continents. Historical reasons, such as historical GDP, population, and number of years of high civilization, have a significant...
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language border. We can therefore study the role of culture in shaping the demand for social insurance. Specifically, we …
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This paper analyzes whether hosting the most prestigious European cultural event, the European Capital of Culture, has …
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