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Weber revisited : the protestant ethic and the spirit of nationalism

Kersting, Felix; Wohnsiedler, Iris; Wolf, Nikolaus - 2020

We revisit Max Weber's hypothesis on the role of Protestantism for economic development. We show that nationalism is crucial to both, the interpretation of Weber's Protestant Ethic and empirical tests thereof. For late nineteenth-century Prussia we reject Weber's suggestion that Protestantism...

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Homo oeconomicus as the homo moralis' party pooper : heterogenous morality in public good games

Eichner, Thomas; Runkel, Marco - 2024

The main insight of this paper is that moral behavior does not necessarily alleviate coordination problems or may even worsen them, if individuals possess different degrees of morality. We characterize heterogenous Alger-Weibull morality preferences in a canonical model of voluntary...

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From the death of god to the rise of Hitler

Becker, Sascha O.; Voth, Hans-Joachim - 2023

Church only had shallow roots, the Nazis received higher electoral support and saw more party entry. "Shallow Christianity …

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Religion and growth

Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2023

We use the elements of a macroeconomic production function-physical capital, human capital, labor, and technology-together with standard growth models to frame the role of religion in economic growth. Unifying a growing literature, we argue that religion can enhance or impinge upon economic...

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Reformation and reallocation : religious and secular economic activity in early modern Germany

Cantoni, Davide; Dittmar, Jeremiah; Yuchtman, Noam - 2016

The Protestant Reformation, beginning in 1517, was a first-order economic shock. We document its effects on the sectoral allocation of economic activity in Germany using highly disaggregated data. During the Reformation, particularly in Protestant regions, large numbers of monasteries were...

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Jesus speaks Korean : christianity and literacy in colonial Korea

Becker, Sascha O.; Won, Cheongyeon - 2021

In the mid 19th century, pre-colonial Korea under the Joseon dynasty was increasingly isolated and lagging behind in its economic development. Joseon Korea was forced to sign unequal treaties with foreign powers as a result of which Christian missionaries entered the country and contributed to...

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Culture, institutions & the long divergence

Bisin, Alberto; Rubin, Jared; Seror, Avner; Verdier, Thierry - 2021

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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Religion in economic history : a survey

Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2020

- Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - and on the period up to WWII. Works on Judaism address Jewish occupational specialization …, human capital, emancipation, and the causes and consequences of Jewish persecution. One set of papers on Christianity … economic consequences in present-day Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Much of the economics of Islam focuses on the role that …

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Pacem in terris : are papal visits good news for human rights?

Endrich, Marek; Gutmannn, Jerg - 2022

We analyze the effect of state visits by the Catholic pope on human rights in the host country to understand how a small theocracy like the Vatican can exert disproportionate political influence in international politics. Our theoretical model of the strategic interaction between the Catholic...

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Central banking and crisis management from the perspective of Austrian business cycle theory

Schnabl, Gunther - 2016

The paper analyses the evolvement and effects of central bank crisis management since the mid 1980s based on a Hayek-Mises-Wicksell overinvestment framework. It is shown that, given that the traditional transmission mechanism between monetary policy and consumer price inflation has collapsed,...

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