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The Causal Effect of Market Participation on Trust: An Experimental Investigation Using Randomized Control
Al-Ubaydli, Omar; Houser, Daniel; Nye, John V.C.; … - Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science (ICES), … - 2011
In randomized control laboratory experiments, we find that those primed to think about markets exhibit more trusting behavior. We randomly and unconsciously prime experimental participants to think about markets and trade. We then ask them to play a trust game involving an anonymous stranger. We...
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Institutionalized Social Technologies Index: A Global Perspective
Siddiqui, Danish Ahmed; Ahmed, Qazi Masood - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
economic aspects. Specifically it attempted to classify and measure various types of institutions based on a theoretical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008476377
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Mechanisms of Governance of Sustainable Development
Bachev, Hrabrin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
In this paper we incorporate the interdisciplinary New Institutional and Transaction Costs Economics (combining Economics, Organization, Law, Sociology, Behavioral and Political Sciences), and suggest a framework for analyzing the mechanisms of governance of sustainable development. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004961514
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The Institutional Approach to Economic History: Connecting the Two Strands
Langlois, Richard N. - Department of Economics, University of Connecticut - 2013
This essay examines the historiography of two episodes in history – the scattering of plots in the open fields in the Middle Ages and the transition to the factory system in the Industrial Revolution – to shed light on the uses of institutional economics in economic history. In both of these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011079286
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ECONOMIA COSTURILOR DE TRANZACTIE: DELIMITARI CONCEPTUALE SI PRELIMINARII EMPIRICE
Marinescu, Cosmin - Institutul National de Cercetari Economice (INCE), … - 2012
” (specific to contractual and free market institutions), on the one hand, and “imposed transaction costs” (according to formal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010550703
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FUNDAMENTELE INSTITUTIONALE ALE PERFORMANTEI ECONOMICE. STUDIU DE SINTEZA
Marinescu, Cosmin - Institutul National de Cercetari Economice (INCE), … - 2011
institutional reforms. The recent scientific research on institutions and economic development proves that, by reducing transaction … costs, the institutions that protect the property rights are decisive for economic development. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010800849
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ECONOMIA COSTURILOR DE TRANZACTIE: DELIMITARI CONCEPTUALE SI PRELIMINARII EMPIRICE
Marinescu, Cosmin - Institutul National de Cercetari Economice (INCE), … - 2012
” (specific to contractual and free market institutions), on the one hand, and “imposed transaction costs” (according to formal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010800856
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Institutions and the Allocation of Talent
Natkhov, Natkhov Timur; Polishchuk, Polishchuk Leonid - National Research University Higher School of Economics - 2012
Institutions affect investment decisions, including investments in human capital. Hence institutions are relevant for … the allocation of talent. Good market-supporting institutions attract talent to productive value-creating activities … individuals are particularly sensitive in their career choices to the quality of institutions, and test these predictions on a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010720526
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The Theory of the Firm and the Theory of Economic Growth: An essay on the economics of institutions, competition and the capacity of the political system to cope with unexpected ch...
Eliasson, Gunnar - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1992
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Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818470
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Turning cheap talk into economic growth: On the relationship between property rights and judicial independence
Voigt, Stefan; Gutmann, Jerg - In: Journal of Comparative Economics 41 (2013) 1, pp. 66-73
Among economists, the view that precisely defined and reliably enforced property rights are generally conducive to economic growth has been quasi-unanimous. But recently, some authors have argued that the relationship is more complex than previously acknowledged: property rights reforms might,...
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