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We study how political factors can shape competition in the mobile telecommunication sector. We show that the way a … government designs the rules of the game has an impact on concentration, competition, and prices. Pro-competition rules reduce … pro-competition, while more politically connected operators are able to distort the rules in their favor, restricting …
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’s conjecture that today marked differences in social capital between the North and South of Italy were due to the culture of …
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To explain the extremely long-term persistence (more than 500 years) of positive historical experiences of cooperation (Putnam 1993), we model the intergenerational transmission of priors about the trustworthiness of others. We show that this transmission tends to be biased toward excessively...
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results suggest that perceptions rooted in culture are important (and generally omitted) determinants of economic exchange. …
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Economists have been reluctant to rely on culture as a possible determinant of economic phenomena. The notion of … culture is so broad and the channels through which it can enter the economic discourse so vague that it is difficult to design … testable hypotheses. In this paper we show this does need to be the case. We introduce a narrower definition of culture that …
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instrumented with its cultural determinants. We conclude that perceptions rooted in culture are important (and generally omitted …
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’s conjecture that today marked differences in social capital between the North and South of Italy were due to the culture of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005697650
To explain the extremely long-term persistence (more than 500 years) of positive historical experiences of cooperation (Putnam, 1993), we model the intergenerational transmission of priors about the trustworthiness of others. We show that this transmission tends to be biased toward excessively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005816451
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