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advertisers and customers. The relation between advertising receipts and sales receipts, which are both complementary and … antagonist, is different if media operators impose a price or a quantity to advertisers. When consumers dislike advertising …, media operators are better off setting an advertising price than an advertising quantity. We establish a relationship …
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This paper explores intergenerational transmission of culture and the consequences of a plausible assumption: that people care not only for their children’s culture but also for how their grand-children are raised. This departs from the previous literature which, without exception, assumes...
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induced by the ”China Shock” (Autor et al. 2020) …
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Casual observation suggests that cultural differences play an important role in business transactions, yet systematic evidence on this relationship is scarce. This paper provides a novel investigation of the effect of cultural distance on multinational firms’ decisions to integrate their...
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The role of ethnic clustering in ethnic identity formation has remained unexplored, mainly due to missing detailed data. This study closes the knowledge gap for Germany by employing a unique combination of datasets, the survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and disaggregated...
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Recent theories of the Long Divergence between Middle Eastern and Western European economies focus on Middle Eastern (over-)reliance on religious legitimacy, use of slave soldiers, and persistence of restrictive proscriptions of religious (Islamic) law. These theories take as exogenous the...
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The objective of this paper is twofold: first, to determine the immigrants' ethnic identity, i.e. the degree of identification to the culture and society of the country of origin and the host country and second, to investigate the impact of ethnic identity on the immigrants' employment outcomes....
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We examine both theoretically and empirically how migration affects cultural change in home and host countries. Our theoretical model integrates various compositional and cultural transmission mechanisms of migration-based cultural change for which it delivers distinctive testable predictions on...
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According to the widely known ‘culture of honor’ hypothesis from social psychology, traditional herding practices have generated a value system conducive to revenge-taking and violence. We test the economic significance of this idea at a global scale using a combination of ethnographic and...
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This paper analyzes persuasive advertising and pricing in oligopoly if firms sell differentiated products and consumers … that the demand-enhancing effect of persuasive advertising varies across consumers and increases in the average degree of … conformity. In equilibrium, both quality and cost leaders choose higher advertising intensities and charge higher prices than …
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