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Distributional Consequences of Voluntary Contributions to Public Goods : Self-Serving Philanthropy in Ottoman Istanbul
Cansunar, Asli - 2020
While philanthropy is seen as a critical instrument for wealth redistribution in countries with low state capacity or weak welfare institutions, there is little empirical evidence of its distributional consequences. How does philanthropic public good provision affect inequalities in access to...
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On Determinants of State Capacity : Wars, Public Goods, and Economic Shocks
Yang, Clair - 2022
River and changes in foreign war frontlines are used as exogenous shocks to individual localities’ needs for public goods …
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War, Peace, and the Making of the State : A Theory of Social Order
Wang, Yijiang - 2019
Eden, the Hobbesian war, or an arms race. Wealth and technology levels also determine whether the state emerges by force …
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Trust and manipulation in social networks
Förster, Manuel; Mauleon, Ana; Vannetelbosch, Vincent J. - 2014
neighbors in the social network, can exert effort to manipulate the trust of others, and update their opinions about some common …. We show that manipulation can modify the trust structure and lead to a connected society. Manipulation fosters opinion …
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Trust and growth revisited
Asongu, Simplice; Kodila-Tedika, Oasis - 2017
The paper extends Breggren et al. (2008, EE) on "trust and growth: a shaky relationship" by incorporating recent … developments in the trust-growth literature and using a robust methodological underpinning that accounts for the presence of … documented positive trust-growth nexus is broadly confirmed. Second, when initial levels of growth come into play in determining …
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The sociology of cartels
Haucap, Justus; Heldman, Christina - 2022
allow them to establish trust and ensure cooperation. We analyze 15 German cartels, focusing on the individual participants …
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Dynamics of Chinese comparative advantage
Hinloopen, Jeroen; Marrewijk, Charles van - 2004
We analyze the dynamics of Chinese comparative advantage as measured by export shares and the Balassa index using 3-digit and 4-digit sectors for the period 1970 – 1997. We use novel tools to identify periods of rapid structural change and the persistence of comparative advantage, such as...
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Political Governance and Urban System
Lu, Ming; Ou, Haijun; Zhong, Yuejun - 2020
With a self-constructed, unique historical data set for 240 counties that spans over centuries, this paper uses the ‘quasi-natural experiment' of capital relocation in 1421, during China's Ming Dynasty, as an exogenous shock to study the relationship between political governance and urban...
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The Emperor's Geography - City Locations, Nature, and Institutional Optimization
Düben, Christian; Krause, Melanie - 2021
The emergence and growth of cities are shaped by both geographical features and institutional factors. We are able to analyze their interplay at different levels of the urban hierarchy by exploiting a unique data set on cities in imperial China from 221 BCE to 1911 CE, a geographically diverse...
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Regulation, trust, and cronyism in Middle Eastern societies : the simple economics of 'wasta'
Barnett, Andrew H.; Yandle, Bruce; Naufal, George - 2013
Despite being a fixture of everyday life in the Arab world, wasta, which may be thought of as special influence by members of the same group or tribe, has received little attention from social scientists. Our casual empiricism suggests that wasta is an important determinant of how economic...
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