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Political entrenchment and GDP misreporting

Chan, Ho Fai; Frey, Bruno S.; Skali, Ahmed; Torgler, Benno - 2019

By examining discrepancies between officially reported GDP growth figures and the actual economic growth implied by satellite-based night time light (NTL) density, we investigate whether democracies manipulate officially reported GDP figures, and if so, whether such manipulation pays political...

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How confidence in health care systems affects mobility and compliance during the COVID-19 pandemic

Chan, Ho Fai; Brumpton, Martin; Macintyre, Alison; … - 2020

Trust in the health care system requires being confident that sufficient and appropriate treatments will be provided if … implications arising from this trust. We explore whether populations reporting low levels of confidence in the health care system … essential trips, compared to those with lower health care system confidence. Regions with high trust in the government but low …

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The power of religious organizations in human decision processes : analyzing voting behavior

Torgler, Benno; Stadelmann, David; Portmann, Marco - 2013

In Switzerland, two key church institutions - the Conference of Swiss Bishops (CSB) and the Federation of Protestant Churches (FPC) - make public recommendations on how to vote for certain referenda. We leverage this unique situation to directly measure religious organizations ́power to shape...

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Competing social identities and intergroup discrimination : evidence from a framed field experiment with high school students in Vietnam

Tam Kiet Vuong; Chan, Ho Fai; Torgler, Benno - 2021

Dictator Game and the Trust Game were conducted in Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City on two groups of high school students with …

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The power of religious organizations in human decision processes : analyzing voting behavior ; conference paper

Torgler, Benno; Stadelmann, David; Portmann, Marco - 2014

In Switzerland, two key church institutions the Conference of Swiss Bishops (CSB) and the Federation of Protestant Churches (FPC) make public recommendations on how to vote for certain referenda. We leverage this unique situation to directly measure religious organizations power to shape human...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010487277

Is there hope after despair? : an analysis of trust among China's Cultural Revolution survivors

Tani, Massimiliano; Cheng, Zhiming; Torgler, Benno - 2023

chaos, on a set of trust outcomes among people surveyed by the China Survey in 2008. We find that the revolution, identified … by cohort-specific exposure to excess deaths at the county level, has a significant long-term impact on trust. However …, the effects differ according to the relationship considered. Overall, trust emerges as a binder between an individual and …

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The economic consequences of a Tobin tax : an experimental analysis

Hanke, Michael; Huber, Jürgen; Kirchler, Michael; … - 2007 - This version: August 14, 2007

The effects of a Tobin tax on foreign exchange markets have long been disputed. We present an experiment with currency trading on two markets, where either none, one, or both markets are taxed. Our results confirm the hitherto undisputed issues: a tax reduces trading volume, shifts market share...

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