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culture are more likely to end up adopting democracy earlier than countries with a collectivist culture. Our empirical … analysis suggests a strong and robust association between individualistic culture and average polity scores and length of … countries with collectivist culture are also more likely to experience autocratic breakdowns and transitions from autocracy to …
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culture are more likely to end up adopting democracy earlier than countries with a collectivist culture. Our empirical … analysis suggests a strong and robust association between individualistic culture and average polity scores and length of … countries with collectivist culture are also more likely to experience autocratic breakdowns and transitions from autocracy to …
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Jackson Turner famously argued that the American frontier fostered individualism. We investigate the Frontier Thesis and … identify its long-run implications for culture and politics. We track the frontier throughout the 1790–1890 period and … demographics and greater individualism. Long after the closing of the frontier, counties with greater TFE exhibit more pervasive …
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Jackson Turner famously argued that the American frontier fostered individualism. We investigate the Frontier Thesis and … identify its long-run implications for culture and politics. We track the frontier throughout the 1790-1890 period and … demographics and greater individualism. Long after the closing of the frontier, counties with greater TFE exhibit more pervasive …
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We exploit the merger between BlackRock and Barclays Global Investors to study how changes in expected ownership concentration affect the investment behavior of funds and the cross-section of stocks worldwide. We find that funds with open-end structures and a large exposure to commonly-held...
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I investigate the importance of local demand shocks on excess comovements and return predictability for 4560 twin-pairs of Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) from 15 country-pairs. The returns on ETFs traded in the same country comove excessively with one another. These comovements are stronger for...
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