onstitutions as the formal foundation of a country's legal and political system have important economic and political effects. Yet, we still know little about why constitutions set effective constraints on politicians in some societies, while being largely disregarded in others. Here, we ask if...

This study investigates the influence of national cultural values on innovation performance across European Union (EU) member states, applying Hofstede's six-dimensional cultural model along with the 2024 Summary Innovation Index. Addressing major gaps in prior research-including the lack of...

We examine whether culturally transmitted time and risk preferences help explain differences in preventive health care uptake. We combine individual-level survey data from 27 European countries with country-level preference measures from the Global Preferences Survey. To isolate cultural...

This research explores how landscape cultural perception impacts the spatial distribution of homestay businesses, and highlights the increasing role of digital technology in enhancing cultural tourism experiences and optimizing homestay industry operations. Using grounded theory, the research...

Constitutions as the formal foundation of a country's legal and political system have important economic and political effects. Yet, we still know little about why constitutions set effective constraints on politicians in some societies, while being largely disregarded in others. Here, we ask if...

This study utilizes cultural values from the World Values Survey (WVS) to investigate the cultural hypothesis regarding economic growth. Following Granato et al.'s (1996) theory, this paper describes a systematic method for developing analytical models that clarify the effect of cultural values...

Using deal-level micro data from the Dealroom database, we construct a dynamic co-investment syndication network to examine the influence of cultural proximity and geospatial proximity between investors and start-ups, as well as the network position of global VC firms on investment decisions in...

This study investigates the nonlinear effects of air pollution on urban entertainment consumption by analyzing daily PM10 levels and movie box office data across 334 Chinese cities from 2012 to 2022, resulting in a total of 1,250,339 observations. Utilizing a two-way fixed effects model and...

To test the localized tastes hypothesis, we use historical dialect similarity as an instrument to predict the persistent component of regional taste differences. Analyzing wholesale markets for fruits and vegetables in Japan, we find that predicted taste differences have a strong, statistically...

To test the localized tastes hypothesis, we use historical dialect similarity as an instrument to predict the persistent component of regional taste differences. Analyzing wholesale markets for fruits and vegetables in Japan, we find that predicted taste differences have a strong, statistically...

This study extends social cognitive career theory (SCCT) by introducing cultural affordances as culturally embedded interpretive frameworks through which individuals make sense of and navigate between distal contextual affordances (e.g., Confucian values) and proximal contextual affordances...

This chapter argues that parenting choices are a central force in the joint evolution of culture and economic outcomes. We present a framework in which parents - motivated by both their children’s future success and their own normative beliefs - choose parenting styles and transmit cultural...

EIT Culture & Creativity is a knowledge and innovation community (KIC) created by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) in 2022. The EIT is Europe's largest innovation ecosystem offering education, innovation and business creation services to solve global challenges. EIT...

Why did the industrial revolution occur in Europe and not in China, despite China being well ahead of Europe in terms of economic and technological achievements several centuries earlier? We revisit this long-standing question from a new perspective. We emphasize the importance of the different...

To test the localized tastes hypothesis, we use historical dialect similarity as an instrument to predict the persistent component of regional taste differences. Analyzing wholesale markets for fruits and vegetables in Japan, we find that predicted taste differences have a strong, statistically...

Moscona and Seck (2024a) examine how redistribution of economic benefits differs between age-based and kin-based societies in sub-Saharan Africa. Using the experimental evaluation of a cash transfer program in Kenya, they find that an increase in income of members of an individual's age cohort...

Companies are progressing with their digital transformation. However, in order to successfully manage this transition to a high degree of digital maturity, they must not only adopt digital technologies but also use them to optimize their processes, products, services and business models and...