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Institutions, Firms and Economic Growth
Frances, Jane - 2004
This paper reviews the literature on institutions and explores the ways in which institutions can influence economic growth, with a particular focus on how institutions affect the use that firms make of human capital to improve their productivity. It discusses the influence of underlying...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012115571
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Remittances and their Effect on Emigration Intentions in Egypt, Morocco and Turkey
van Dalen, Hendrik P.; Groenewold, George; Fokkema, Tineke - 2005
What determines remittances – altruism or enlightened self-interest - and do remittances trigger additional migration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325523
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Corporate Donations to the Arts: Philanthropy or Advertising?
Frank, Björn; Geppert, Kurt - 2002
This paper is an attempt to provide evidence on two questions: Why do companies sponsor art events, and where exactly does the money go? We analyse data collected on the revenue structure of cultural institutions in Berlin and Hamburg. This data set not only tells us where the money goes, it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260636
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Economists on Darwin's theory of social evolution and human behaviour
Marciano, Alain - 2005
or refer to Darwin. We focus on the attitude of economists towards Darwin's theory of social evolution - an issue he … considered as central to his theory. We show that economists refer to and mention Darwin as a biologist and neglect or ignore his … theory of social and cultural evolution. Three types of reference are identified: first, economists view and quote Darwin as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266698
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Volunteering, happiness and public policy
Binder, Martin; Freytag, Andreas - 2012
Is the activity of volunteering something that benefits the volunteer as well as the recipient of the volunteer's activities? We analyze this relationship and apply matching estimators to the large-scale British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) data set to estimate the causal impact of volunteering...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286477
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The application of evolutionary concepts in evolutionary economics
Cordes, Christian - 2014
There are several ways to incorporate evolutionary concepts into economic thinking. This article reviews the most important transfers of this kind into evolutionary economics. It broadly differentiates between approaches that draw on an analogy construction to the biological sphere, those that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010478863
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Reconciling Pro-Social vs. Selfish Behavior: Evidence for the Role of Self-Control
Martinsson, Peter; Myrseth, Kristian Ove R.; Wollbrant, … - 2010
We test the proposition that individuals may experience a self-control conflict between short-term temptation to be selfish and better judgment to act pro-socially. Using a dictator game and a public goods game, we manipulated the likelihood that individuals identified self-control conflict, and...
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What ethics can learn from experimental economics - if anything
Güth, Werner; Kliemt, Hartmut - 2008
Relying on the specific example of ultimatum bargaining experiments this paper explores the possible role of empirical knowledge of behavioural norm(ative) facts" within the search for an inter-personal (W)RE - (Wide) Reflective Equilibrium on normative issues. Assuming that pro-social behaviour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332983
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Costs and benefits of immigration and multicultural interaction
Bonn, Moritz - 2012
This paper studies how the existence of a minority culture influences the well-being of the native population and its attitude towards immigrants. In this context, I assume that multicultural interaction can be advantageous for immigrants and natives if intercultural obstacles and communication...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294351
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Nationalism, cognitive ability, and interpersonal relations
Corneo, Giacomo - 2010
their social contacts. I develop a model of how those judgments form based on a theory of symbolic values. The model depicts …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010300712