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Culture Clash : Investor’s Rights v. Cultural Heritage in International Investment Law & Arbitration

Vadi, Valentina - 2014

This study aims to explore the ‘clash of cultures’ between international investment law and international cultural law. When countries pursue economic growth, their policy makers may have an incentive to lower cultural standards to promote economic activities. If states nonetheless maintain...

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Do multinationals transfer culture? : evidence on female employment in China

Tang, Heiwai; Zhang, Yifan - 2017

We study the global diffusion of culture through multinationals, focusing on gender norms. Using data on manufacturing … firms in China over 2004-2007, we find that foreign affiliates from countries with a more gender-equal culture tend to …

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Do multinationals transfer culture? : evidence on female employment in China

Tang, Heiwai; Zhang, Yifan - In: Journal of international economics 133 (2021), pp. 1-21

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The effects of cultural differences on bilateral trade patterns

MacDermott, Raymond; Mornah, Dekuwmini - In: Global economy journal : GEJ 16 (2016) 4, pp. 637-668

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Competition of Multinationals from Different CulturalBackgrounds: Does Familiarity Breed Contempt?

Kwon, Chul-Woo; Lapan, Harvey E. - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2005

This paper considers competition between two multinationals (U, J) who compete in a third market (K).The multinationals have similar cost structures, but differ in that J comes from a country that is “culturallysimilar” to K, and hence produces products that match more closely the...

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Updating Hofstede's Cultural Model and Tracking Changes in Cultural Indices

Zhao, Hong-Yan - 2017

. We extended Tang and Koveos's model by adding 2010 data in order to grasp the changes of culture over not only the past …

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An International Survey on Time Discounting

Wang, Mei; Rieger, Marc Oliver; Hens, Thorsten - Swiss Finance Institute <Zürich> - 2009

We present results from the rst large-scale international surveyon time discounting, conducted in 45 countries. Cross-country varia-tion cannot simply be explained by economic variables such as interestor ination rates. In particular, we nd strong evidence for culturaldierences, as measured by...

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Culture, diffusion, and economic development

Harutyunyan, Ani; Özak, Ömer - 2016

This research explores the effects of culture on technological diffusion and economic development. It shows that … culture's direct effects on development and barrier effects to technological diffusion are, in general, observationally … culture, while lending credence to the idea that common ancestry generates persistence and plays a central role in economic …

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Dialects, Cultural Identity, and Economic Exchange

Südekum, Jens; Heblich, Stephan; Falck, Oliver; … - 2010

a gravity analysis, we show that current cross-regional migration is positively affected by historical dialect …

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A Dissection of Trading Capital: Cultural persistence of trade in the aftermath of the fall of the Iron Curtain

Beestermöller, Matthias; Rauch, Ferdinand - 2014

aftermath of the collapse of the Iron Curtain than predicted by a standard gravity model. This trade surplus declines linearly …

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