El artículo intenta una aproximación entre los comportamientos e intereses individuales de losagentes económicos, motor del sistema capitalista de producción y base conceptual de la escuelaneoclásica en economía, y los comportamientos e intereses colectivos que, por lo general, han...

Este artículo tiene como objetivo realizar un análisis del debate teórico que se ha generado alrededor de la determinación de la tasa social de descuento utilizada en la evaluación de proyectos con impactos ambientales de largo plazo. Así, describe la evolución del debate y se revisa...

In diesem Diskussionspapier werden die Bedingungen untersucht, unter denen die Fähigkeit zu Innovation in einer marktwirtschaftlichen Ordnung zur Entfaltung kommt. Diese theoretische Leitfrage bildet den Kern eines neuen ordoliberalen Innovationsframeworks, welches speziell auf den...

Most modernization or development theories that incorporate law emphasize a growth in the scope of individual choice as law becomes impartial, relevant to all. An early expression of this conceptualization was Henry Maine's (1822-1888) celebrated dictum that progressive societies move from...

The study measures scientists' polarization on social media and its impact on public perceptions of their credibility. Analyzing 98,000 scientists on Twitter from 2016 to 2022 reveals significant divergence in expressed political opinions. An experiment assesses the impact of online political...

The distribution of parental leave uptake and childcare activities continues to conform to traditional gender roles. In 2002, with the goal of increasing gender equality, Sweden added a second "daddy month," i.e., an additional month of pay-related parental leave reserved exclusively for each...

Trust between parties should drive contract design: if parties were suspicious about each others' reaction to unplanned events, they might agree to pay higher costs of negotiation ex ante to complete contracts. Using a unique sample of U.S. consulting contracts and a negative shock to trust...

Upon arrival in the host country, immigrants undergo a fundamental identity crisis. Their ethnic identity being questioned, they can be classified into four states assimilation, integration, separation and marginalization. This is suggested by the ethnosizer, a newly established measure to...

This paper studies the role of culture in shaping unemployment outcomes. The empirical analysis is based on local comparisons across a language barrier in Switzerland. This Röstigraben separates cultural groups, but neither labor markets nor political jurisdictions. Local contrasts across the...

This paper compares two prominent empirical measures of individual risk attitudes - the Holt and Laury (2002) lottery-choice task and the multi-item questionnaire advocated by Dohmen, Falk, Huffman, Schupp, Sunde and Wagner (forthcoming) - with respect to (a) their within-subject stability over...