versus relationships affect altruistic behavior towards parents, children and non-family members, using the survey data of … uses relationships. The difference is in distributions. More Westerners use categories than Easterners even though an … individual Westerner may use relationships. We used survey data of Korea, Japan and the US that contains various measures of …

Economists have long suspected that firm-to-firm relationships might increase price rigidity due to the use of explicit … older versus newly formed relationships. Based on additional stylized facts about a relationship's life cycle and interviews … the average length of relationships in the economy - e.g., in a recession, when the share of young relationships declines …