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Dialects, cultural identity and economic exchange

Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Lameli, Alfred; … - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2010

linguistic micro-data from a unique language survey conducted between 1879 and 1888 in about 45,000 German schools. The recorded …

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Dialects, cultural identity, and economic exchange

Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Lameli, Alfred; … - 2010

We investigate whether time-persistent cultural borders impede economic exchange across regions of the same country. To measure cultural differences we evaluate, for the first time in economics, linguistic micro-data about phonological and grammatical features of German dialects. These data are...

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Dialects, Cultural Identity, and Economic Exchange

Südekum, Jens; Heblich, Stephan; Falck, Oliver; … - 2010

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Dialects, cultural identity, and economic exchange

Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Lameli, Alfred; … - In: Journal of Urban Economics 72 (2012) 2, pp. 225-239

evaluate linguistic micro-data from a unique language survey conducted between 1879 and 1888 in about 45,000 German schools …

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Same Same But Different: Dialects and Trade

Lameli, Alfred; Nitsch, Volker; Südekum, Jens; Wolf, … - 2013

Language is a strong and robust determinant of international trade patterns: Countries sharing a common language trade … that this trade-promoting effect of language is likely to reflect cultural ties, rather than lower costs of communication … or similar institutions. Analyzing unique data for a single-language country, Germany, we find that similarities in the …

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