Leveraging an established exercise in negotiation education, we build a novel dataset for studying how the use of language shapes bilateral bargaining. Our dataset extends existing work in two ways: 1) we recruit participants via behavioral labs instead of crowdsourcing platforms and allow...

The report deals with the results of linguistic and statistical analysis of interview texts within the framework of the economic forum by means of automatic semantic text analysis (SEO analysis), which allows to obtain an objective picture of changes in the extralinguistic situation, expressed...

Dickens (2022) studies the role of trade on long-run inter-ethnic linguistic differences. He establishes that neighboring ethnolinguistic groups have smaller (lexicostatistical) linguistic distances when there is a larger agricultural productivity variation between them. Specifically, he...

This primary research proposes an experimental approach to analyzing books about urban economics. The research objectives are to understand the current narrative of urban economics in light of some popular books about city economics. I explain formal processes of text analysis using the...

Given the multilingual nature of global business, language influences international business (IB) in almost all areas. IB scholars have studied the complex influence of language with manifold theoretical lenses, but have not systematically integrated linguistic theories. Aiming to broaden IB's...

This paper investigates the impact of opening the labor market to qualified immigrants who hold fully equivalent diplomas as natives and share the same mother tongue. Leveraging the 2002 opening of the Swiss labor market to qualified workers from the European Union, we show that the policy led...

In group decision-making (GDM), there exist cognitive and realistic uncertainties and humans exhibit hesitation and ambiguity. Using probabilistic linguistic term sets (PLTSs) can better adapt to the above challenges. However, the current PLTS-based methods rarely take the subjectivity and...

Children appear to learn better when taught in their mother tongue. This finding gives rise to an argument that mother tongue-based multilingual education could effectively improve learning outcomes in low- and middle-income countries. However, the challenges of implementing an effective...

Der vorliegende Arbeitsbericht reflektiert durch solide Begriffsarbeit, was unter Kurzgeschichten im Speziellen und kurzen Erzählformen im Allgemeineren verstanden wird. Dafür werden die in der bisherigen Kurzgeschichtenforschung formulierten und hauptsächlich nach formalen und inhaltlichen...

This study, commissioned by the European Parliament's Policy Department for Citizens' Rights and Constitutional Affairs, at the request of the PETI Committee, inquires about the connection between the "Protection of European linguistic and cultural diversity" and the "Protection and promotion of...

This study, commissioned by the European Parliament's Policy Department for Citizens' Rights and Constitutional Affairs, at the request of the PETI Committee, inquires about the connection between the "Protection of European linguistic and cultural diversity" and the "Protection and promotion of...