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History Matters: The Origins of Cultural Supply in Italy
BOROWIECKI, Karol Jan - Department of Economics, Trinity College Dublin - 2012
I investigate the consequences of long-run persistence of a societies’ preference towards cultural goods. Historical cultural activity is approximated with the frequency of births of classical composers during the Renaissance and is linked with contemporary supply of cultural activities in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010842945
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Historical origins of cultural supply in Italy
Borowiecki, Karol Jan - Institut for Virksomhedsledelse og Økonomi, Syddansk … - 2015
I investigate the consequences of long-run persistency of a society’s preferences for cultural goods. Historical cultural activity is approximated with the frequency of births of music composers during the Renaissance and is linked with contemporary measures of cultural activity in Italian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011185414
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The long-term impact of religion on social capital : lessons from post-war Czechoslovakia
Mikula, Stepan; Reggiani, Tommaso; Sabatini, Fabio - 2023
We exploit a historical experiment that occurred in Czechoslovakia after World War Two to study the drivers of social capital accumulation in an extremely unfavorable environment. Between 1945 and 1948, the Sudetenland became the scene of ethnic cleansing, with the expulsion of nearly three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014248714
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The long-term impact of religion on social capital: lessons from post-war Czechoslovakia
Mikula, Stepan; Reggiani, Tommaso; Sabatini, Fabio - 2023
We exploit a historical experiment that occurred in Czechoslovakia after World War Two to study the drivers of social capital accumulation in an extremely unfavorable environment. Between 1945 and 1948, the Sudetenland became the scene of ethnic cleansing, with the expulsion of nearly three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014325128
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Law and social capital: Evidence from the Code Napoleon in Germany
Buggle, Johannes C. - 2013
Do legal institutions affect norms of cooperation? Using the introduction of the Code Napoleon during the Napoleonic … Wars in Germany as a historical experiment, I show that a positive shock to the quality of legal institutions can increase … be a potential mechanism for the relationship between legal institutions and social capital. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317548
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Law and social capital : evidence from the Code Napoleon in Germany
Buggle, Johannes C. - 2013 - This version: July 2, 2013
Do legal institutions affect norms of cooperation? Using the introduction of the Code Napoleon during the Napoleonic … Wars in Germany as a historical experiment, I show that a positive shock to the quality of legal institutions can increase … be a potential mechanism for the relationship between legal institutions and social capital. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009775710
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Law and Social Capital: Evidence from the Code Napoleon in Germany
Buggle, Johannes C. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013
Do legal institutions affect norms of cooperation? Using the introduction of the Code Napoleon during the Napoleonic … Wars in Germany as a historical experiment, I show that a positive shock to the quality of legal institutions can increase … be a potential mechanism for the relationship between legal institutions and social capital. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010896247
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Taxes, National Identity, and Nation Building: Evidence from France
Johnson, Noel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
successful in substituting its fiscal and legal institutions for those of the medieval seigneurial regime within an area of the … themselves with national, as opposed to local, institutions. We also show that regions inside the CGF that affiliated with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011252300
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Witchcraft beliefs, social relations, and development
Gershman, Boris - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012654907
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Circle of fortune: The long term impact of Western customs institutions in China
Jin, Gan - 2018
This paper studies the persistent impact of good institutions on economic development in China. By exploiting a British … customs institutions are also better developed today. Moreover, I show that the institutional switch was exogenous to the pre …-colonial development, and I provide different estimation models to reveal a robust and causal relationship between good institutions and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012140485