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Social Connectedness in Bank Lending

The Review of financial studies
We present evidence that loan allocations and loan terms are closely linked to the strength of social connections between bank and borrower regions.
Oliver Rehbein, Simon C. Rother
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Debunking Immigration Myths: A Review Essay of Streets of Gold: America’s Untold Story of Immigrant Success

Journal of Economic Literature
This essay reviews Streets of Gold: America’s Untold Story of Immigrant Success by Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan. This elegantly written book, whih is a must-read for anyone interested in the topic of immigration, walks the reader through a history of ...
M. Tabellini
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France after 1789: Essay on Elster’s France before 1789

Journal of Economic Literature
In this essay on Elster’s (2020) book, I expose my concerns about the ability of behavioral tools to correctly address the transition phase between the absolutist regime and the democratic institutions inherited from the French Revolution. Rehabilitating
Antoine Parent
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Solidarity. . . Forever? Teaching Labor and Race at a Predominantly White and Emerging Hispanic Serving Institution with Games

The Review of Radical Political Economics
In the past year, I have utilized two series of games to teach a predominantly white classroom the barriers that race plays to labor organizing. Students play Prisoner’s Dilemma and Stag-Hunt games, without and with player inequality.
Robert Haggar
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Emotional Support and Financial Distress

The Review of Corporate Finance Studies
This paper is the first to explore emotional support as an important determinant of household financial outcomes. Using microdata from the United States and Australia, I document that individuals who feel emotionally supported are less likely to ...
Da Ke
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Traditional Institutions Meet the Modern World: Caste, Gender and Schooling Choice in a Globalizing Economy

, 2003
This paper addresses the question of how traditional institutions interact with the forces of globalization to shape the economic mobility and welfare of particular groups of individuals in the new economy.
Kaivan Munshi, Mark Rosenzweig
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Organizational Culture: Structure and Evolution

Journal of Law, Economics & Organization
We present a model of the formation and evolution of organizational culture and its effect on performance. The analysis reveals circumstances under which, because of cultural externalities, excessive polarization or, alternatively, homogeneity may ...
M. Gradstein
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Noise-Tolerant Community Enforcement and the Strength of Small Stakes

American Economic Review: Insights
We study community enforcement in a large population with noisy monitoring. We focus on equilibria in the prisoner’s dilemma that are coordination proof, meaning that matched partners never play a Pareto-dominated Nash equilibrium in the one-shot game ...
D. Fudenberg, A. Wolitzky
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Les classes moyennes tunisiennes ont-elles été mieux protégées face à la crise liée à la covid 19 ? Analyse des stratégies adaptatives des ménages au prisme de la stratification sociale

Mondes en Développement
Nous analysons empiriquement la relation entre diversité des stratégies adaptatives des Tunisiens face à la crise économique post-covid et stratification sociale à partir de données d’enquêtes ménages.
Céline Bonnefond, Tsiry Andrianampiarivo, Fatma Mabrouk   +2 more
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