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Anti-Western conspiracies are frequently used by Governments to strengthen their power. We investigate the impact of conspiracy thinking on expectations of collusion among individuals in Russia and China. For this purpose, we conduct a novel laboratory experiment to measure expectations of...
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This paper investigates how lineages, the commonly found organizations in rural villages of China, affect people's intra- and cross-lineage cooperative behavior. We use data from the Chinese Household Income Project Survey 2002, which exclusively contains information about the lineage structure...
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We review previous literature on productivity spillovers of foreign direct investment (FDI) in China and conduct our own analysis using a crosssection of firm data. We find that the evidence of FDI spillovers on the productivity of Chinese domestic firms is mixed, with many positive results...
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institutions and economists' thinking on institutions during transition. Early in transition, institutions were virtually ignored … events influenced intellectual developments, institutions were at the center of analysis. Growth is strongly related to … institutional construction. Transition countries built institutions speedily but with marked variation across countries. Legal …
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Declining general trust has become a serious social issue in China in recent years. This paper attempts to understand … networks, it finds that the evolution of general trust is dependent on changes of the social interaction structure, and the … increases of both social and spatial distance may explain a decrease of the levels of cooperation and general trust. In addition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010513002
Declining general trust has become a serious social issue in China in recent years. This paper attempts to understand … networks, it finds that the evolution of general trust is dependent on changes of the social interaction structure, and the … increases of both social and spatial distance may explain a decrease of the levels of cooperation and general trust. In addition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010513367
Declining general trust has become a serious social issue in China in recent years. This paper attempts to understand … networks, it finds that the evolution of general trust is dependent on changes of the social interaction structure, and the … increases of both social and spatial distance may explain a decrease of the levels of cooperation and general trust. In addition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011273930
Anti-Western conspiracies are frequently used by governments to strengthen their power. We investigate the impact of conspiracy thinking on expectations of collusion among individuals in Russia and China. For this purpose, we conduct a novel laboratory experiment to measure expectations of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023260
This paper studies how social media affect protest dynamics in China during 2009-2017. Based on 13.2 billion microblog posts, we use tweets and retweets to measure social media communication across cities and exploit its rapid expansion for identification. We find that despite strict government...
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We study trust and willingness to cooperate among and between Uyghur and Han college students in Xinjiang, China, where … find that members of each ethnicity show favoritism towards those of their own ethnicity in both trust and cooperation and … differently in their willingness to cooperate relative to trust, although both trust and trustworthiness positively correlate with …
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