Do religiously driven cultural norms contribute to the gender gap? Focusing on Italian municipalities in the Piedmont region, we study the long-run cultural effect of medieval Waldensian Christian communities on early 19th century female literacy rates. All outcomes of the education gender gap...

Cultural related business research requires robust frameworks for analysis and application of this complex phonomena. Business research has largely relied upon and applied Hofstede's dimensions to cultural problems. This study investigates and discusses plausible alternatives (Triandis,...

In this paper, we aim to investigate cultural differences in economic decision making. Instead of rational utility maximizing b behavior, we adopt the Prospect theory, which assumes asymmetric between losing and gaining. We conducted a survey among 146 students from the Middle East Technical...

The empirical literature on economic growth and development has moved from the study of proximate determinants to the analysis of ever deeper, more fundamental factors, rooted in long-term history. A growing body of new empirical work focuses on the measurement and estimation of the effects of...