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Political Ideology and Generosity Around the Globe
Pizziol, Veronica; Demaj, Xhiselda; Di Paolo, Roberto; … - 2023
In a world severely put under stress by COVID-19, generosity becomes increasingly essential both when able to transcend local boundaries, building upon universalistic values, and when directed toward more local contexts, such as the native country. This study aims to investigate an...
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In-group cooperation in a hostile environment : an economic perspective on some aspects of Jewish life in (pre-modern) diaspora
Rapoport, Hillel; Weiss, Avi - 2002
The demographic history of the Jews in the Middle Ages may be characterized by two main phenomena: i) a sharp drop in the number of Jews until the beginning of the modern period, due mainly to conversions; and, ii) early urbanization. Until now, these features have been analyzed as primarily...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411192
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Gender and cooperative preferences on five continents
Furtner, Nadja C.; Kocher, Martin; Martinsson, Peter; … - 2016
Evidence of gender differences in cooperation in social dilemmas is inconclusive. This paper experimentally elicits unconditional contributions, a contribution vector (cooperative preferences), and beliefs about the level of others' contributions in variants of the public goods game. We show...
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Referenda on hosting the olympics : what drives voter turnout?
Streicher, Tobias; Schmidt, Sascha Leonard; Schreyer, … - In: Journal of sports economics 20 (2019) 5, pp. 627-653
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Contagion and spillovers : new insights from the crisis : a joint publication with the Austrian Society for Bank Research
Backé, Peter (ed.); Gnan, Ernest (ed.);  … - Contagion and Spillovers – New Insights from the …; … - 2010
On February 12, 2010, SUERF, the Oesterreichische Nationalbank and the Bankwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft continued their established tradition of jointly organised conferences. As evidenced also by the 115 conference participants, this year's subject of "Contagion and Spillovers – New...
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Electoral cycles in perceived corruption : international empirical evidence
Potrafke, Niklas - 2018
than in other years, indicating that perceived corruption in the public sector increased before elections. The effect is … especially pronounced before early elections (1.0 points) compared to regular elections (0.4 points). Future research needs to … investigate why perceived corruption in the public sector increased before elections. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011962213
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Electoral cycles in perceived corruption : international empirical evidence
Potrafke, Niklas - 2018
I examine whether elections influence perceived corruption in the public sector. Perceived corruption in the public … perceived corruption in the public sector increased before elections. The effect is especially pronounced before early elections … (1.0 points) compared to regular elections (0.4 points). Future research needs to investigate why perceived corruption in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011941292
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Inequality, infrastructure, and institutions : empirical studies in public economics and political economy
Dorn, Florian - 2021
Florian Dorn erstellte diesen Beitrag während seines Promotionsstudiums an der Universität München (LMU). Die Studie wurde im September 2020 abgeschlossen und von der Fakultät für Volkswirtschaftslehre als Dissertation angenommen. Die Dissertation trägt zur Empirie der Ökonomie des...
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Electoral earthquake : natural disasters and the geography of discontent
Cerqua, Augusto; Ferrante, Chiara; Letta, Marco - 2021
earthquakes in Italy resulted in sharply diverging electoral outcomes: while the 2012 Emilia quake did not alter voting behaviour …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012494012
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The political costs of oil price shocks
Arezki, Rabah; Djankov, Simeon; Nguyen, Ha; Yotzov, Ivan - 2022
We explore the effect of oil import price shocks on political outcomes using a worldwide dataset on elections of chief …
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