We study the political opinions of Swedish social scientists in seven disciplines. A survey was sent to 4,301 academics at 25 colleges and universities, which makes the coverage of the disciplines included more or less comprehensive. When it comes to party sympathies there are 1.3 academics on...

This paper investigates the attitudes towards the Euro and their changes over time in Germany by using longitudinal micro data from the German Socio Economic Panel Study (SOEP). We observe that a large part of the German population was worried about the new currency before its implementation....

We study the political opinions of Swedish social scientists in seven disciplines. A survey was sent to 4,301 academics at 25 colleges and universities, which makes the coverage of the disciplines included more or less comprehensive. When it comes to party sympathies there are 1.3 academics on...

There exists a long-standing debate about the influence of ideology in economics. Surprisingly, however, there is no concrete empirical evidence to examine this critical issue. Using an online randomized controlled experiment involving 2425 economists in 19 countries, we examine the effect of...

We document economists’ opinions about what is worth knowing and ask (i) which research objectives economic research should embrace and (ii) which topics it should study. Almost 10,000 economic researchers from all fields and ranks of the profession participated in our global survey. Detailed...

This chapter summarizes the results of 19 studies that were conducted on the relationship between religious denomination and attitude toward bribery. Additional summaries will be published in the second volume of this series, The Ethics of Bribery: Country Studies

This chapter summarizes the results of 16 studies that were conducted on the relationship between political viewpoint and attitude toward bribery. Additional summaries will be published in the second volume of this series, The Ethics of Bribery: Country Studies

This chapter summarizes the results of 14 studies that were conducted on the relationship between sector of employment and attitude toward bribery. Additional summaries will be published in the second volume of this series, The Ethics of Bribery: Country Studies

The present study is part of a much larger study that examined the ethics of bribery and the ethics of tax evasion from a variety of perspectives. In this study, data were taken from the most recent World Values Survey. This study included 83 countries. Women were either significantly more...

The present study is part of a much larger study that examined the ethics of bribery and the ethics of tax evasion from a variety of perspectives. In this study, data were taken from the most recent World Values Survey. More than 62 percent of the Jewish sample believed that taking a bribe could...