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Pay as you Go: A New Proposal for Museum Pricing
Frey, Bruno S.; Steiner, Lasse - CESifo - 2010
Museums have many different goals beyond efficiency such as social equity, financial revenue, attracting donors and gaining international, regional or local prestige. Various pricing schemes are being discussed with the aim of reaching these goals. The classical ones are entry prices and free...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008572533
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The Agricultural Origins of Time Preference
Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer - CESifo - 2015
This research explores the origins of the distribution of time preference across regions. It advances the hypothesis, and establishes empirically that geographical variations in the natural return to agricultural investment have had a persistent effect on the distribution of time preference...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011167137
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Same Same But Different: Dialects and Trade
Lameli, Alfred; Nitsch, Volker; Suedekum, Jens; Wolf, … - CESifo - 2013
finding as evidence for the effect of culture on trade. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877639
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Does Culture Affect Unemployment? Evidence from the Röstigraben
Brügger, Beatrix; Lalive, Rafael; Zweimüller, Josef - CESifo - 2009
This paper studies the role of culture in shaping unemployment outcomes. The empirical analysis is based on local … political jurisdictions. Local contrasts across the language border identify the role of culture for unemployment. Our findings … indicate that differences in culture explain differences in unemployment duration on the order of 20 %. Moreover, we find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005013065
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Culture and Cooperation
Gaechter, Simon; Herrmann, Benedikt; Thöni, Christian - CESifo - 2010
cultural background relative to individual heterogeneity and group-level differences in cooperation. We find that culture has a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008534012
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Culture and Tax Structures
König, Tobias; Wagener, Andreas - CESifo - 2012
We argue that societies with a stronger tendency towards postmaterialist life goals tilt the tax structure towards personal income taxes and away from corporate taxation. We provide empirical evidence for this correlation in OECD countries. To address endogeneity issues we then use an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009651860
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Dialects, Cultural Identity, and Economic Exchange
Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Lameli, Alfred; … - CESifo - 2010
We investigate whether time-persistent cultural borders impede economic exchange across regions of the same country. To measure cultural differences we evaluate, for the first time in economics, linguistic micro-data about phonological and grammatical features of German dialects. These data are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008583636
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When the State Mirrors the Family: The Design of Pension Systems
Galasso, Vincenzo; Profeta, Paola - CESifo - 2010
This paper studies the transmission mechanism from family culture to economic institutions, by analyzing the impact of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008671713
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Collective Memory and Nostalgia in The Dutch Radio2 Top2000 Chart 1999-2013
Sterken, Elmer - CESifo - 2014
The paper analyses the impact of age on the ranking of recorded popular songs in the Dutch Radio2 Top2000 chart in the years 1999-2013. We measure the competition between the loss of collective memory and nostalgia with respect to popular songs. Nostalgic feelings seem to be relevant to recorded...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877732
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Making World Heritage Truly Global: The Culture Certificate Scheme
Frey, Bruno S.; Pamini, Paolo - CESifo - 2009
Culture has attributes of a global public good that needs to be preserved for mankind as a whole. World Culture …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005010153