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Tolling on the River : Trade and Informal Taxation on the Congo

Olsson, Ola - 2016

It is by now generally agreed that government corruption is a serious impediment to economic growth. An intensive use of informal tolls and bribes on roads and waterways still prevail in several developing countries, hampering trade and economic development. On the basis of a general model of a...

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Estimating the Local Effectiveness of Institutions : A Latent-Variable Approach

Reinecke, Antonia - 2019

-aggregated level. Our idea builds on the well documented interdependence between institutions and exports, which allows estimating the … that neglect regional differences in the effectiveness of institutions …

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Economic freedom and antisemitism

Berggren, Niclas; Nilsson, Therese - 2020

We examine how variation in antisemitism across countries can be explained by economic freedom. We propose two mechanisms. First, the more economic freedom, the greater the scope of market activities. If people perceive the consequences of the market economy as detrimental, they will be more...

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Reputation and Multilateral Punishment under Uncertainty

Hajikhameneh, Aidin - 2017

Principal-agent problems can reduce gains from exchange available in long distance trade. One solution to mitigate this problem is multilateral punishment, whereby groups of principals jointly punish cheating agents by giving them bad reputations. But how does such punishment work when there is...

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The dawn of civilization : mental trade and the rise of hierarchy

Flückiger, Matthias; Larch, Mario; Ludwig, Markus; … - 2024

In the latter half of the fourth millennium BC, our ancestors witnessed a remarkable transformation, progressing from simple agrarian villages to complex urban civilizations. In regions as far apart as the Nile Valley, Mesopotamia, Central Asia, and the Indus Valley, the first states appeared...

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Cultural Biases in Economic Exchange

Guiso, Luigi; Sapienza, Paola; Zingales, Luigi - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2005

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Cultural Biases in Economic Exchange

Guiso, Luigi; Sapienza, Paola; Zingales, Luigi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

How much do cultural biases affect economic exchange? We try to answer this question by using the relative trust European citizens have for citizens of other countries. First, we document that this trust is affected not only by objective characteristics of the country being trusted, but also by...

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Neuroökonomik, Institutionen und verteilte Kognition: Empirische Grundlagen eines nicht-reduktionistischen naturalistischen Forschungsprogramms in den Wirtschaftswissenschaften

Herrmann-Pillath, Carsten - 2011

implies a pivotal role for institutions. I discuss the relation between neuroeconomics and institutional economics from three … different perspectives. How does neuroeconomics improve our knowledge about the relation between behavior and institutions (rule … follwoing)? Can neuroeconomics provide deeper insights into the effects of institutions on behavior? In which way does …

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Naturalizing institutions: Evolutionary principles and application on the case of money

Herrmann-Pillath, Carsten - 2011

a strictly naturalistic approach to this duality in the context of the theory of institutions, which means that its use … for the analysis of institutions, which synthesizes Searle's and Aoki's theories, especially with regard to the role of …-following as a behavioral disposition. This allows to conceive institutions as causal circuits that connect the population …

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Use of coordination fields in food economics

Tóth, József - 2010

The coordination plays central role in the economics. The conventional economic theory looks at the market and enterprise (or hierarchy) as two different, separated manner of coordination of economic goods and services. However the modern organization theory, price theory and institutional...

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