Presidential address: Institutions and culture

Journal of the European Economic Association

Volumn 6, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 255-294

  Tabellini, Guido ^a  

^a BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 45849137160     PISSN: 15424766     EISSN: 15424774     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/JEEA.2008.6.2-3.255     Document Type: Editorial

References (86)

1. Acemoglu, Daron, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson (2001). "The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation." American Economic Review, 91, 1369-1401.
2. Acemoglu, Daron, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson (2005). "The Rise of Europe: Atlantic Trade, Institutional Change and Economic Growth." American Economic Review, 95(3), 546-579.
3. Acemoglu, Daron, and James Robinson (2008). "Persistence of Power, Elites and Institutions." American Economic Review.
4. Acemoglu, Daron, Davide Ticchi, and Andrea Vindigni (2006). "Emergence and Persistence of Inefficient States." NBER Working Paper No. 12748.
5. Akerlof, George A. (2007). "The Missing Motivation in Macroeconomics." AEA Presidential Address, presented in Chicago, IL.
6. Akerlof, George A., and Rachel E. Kranton (2000). "Economics and Identity." Quarterly Journal of Economics, 115 (August), 715-753.
7. Alesina, Alberto, and Paola Giuliano (2007). "The Power of the Family." Working paper, Harvard University.
8. Alesina, Alberto, and Eliana La Ferrara (2002). "Who Trusts Others?" Journal of Public Economics, 85, 207-234.
9. Algan, Yann, and Pierre Cahuc (2006). "Why Is The Minimum Wage So High In Low-Trust Countries?" Working paper, University of Paris 1.
10. Algan, Yann, and Pierre Cahuc (2007). "Social Attitudes and Macroeconomic Performance: an Epidemiological Approach." Working paper, University of Paris 1.
11. Almond, Gabriel, and Sidney Verba (1963) The Civic Culture: Political Attitudes and Democracy in Five Nations. Princeton University Press.
12. Anderlini, Luca, Dino Gerardi, and Roger Lagunoff (2007). "Social Memory and Evidence from the Past." Working paper, Georgetown University.
13. Ashraf, Quamrul, and Oded Galor (2007). "Cultural Assimilation, Cultural Diffusion and the Origin of the Wealth of Nations." Working paper, Brown University.
14. Banfield, E. C. (1958). The Moral Basis of a Backward Society. Free Press.
15. Barkow, Jerome H., Leda Cosmides, and John Tooby (1992). The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture. Oxford University Press.
16. Ben-ner, Avner, and Louis Putterman (1998). Economics, Values and Organizations. Cambridge University Press.
17. Benabou, Roland (2008). "Groupthink and Ideology." Journal of the Euopean Economic Association, 6(2-3), 321-352.
18. Benabou, Roland, and Jean Tirole (2006). "Belief in a Just World and Redistributive Politics." Quarterly Journal of Economics, 121(2), 699-746.
19. Benavot, Aaron, and Phyllis Riddle (1988). "The Expansion of Primary Education: 1870-1940." Sociology of Education, 61(3), 191-210.
20. Bernheim, B. Douglas (1994). "A Theory of Conformity." Journal of Political Economy, 102, 841-877.
21. Besley, Timothy, and Torsten Persson (2007). "The Origins of State Capacity: Property Rights, Taxation, and Politics." IIES Discussion Paper, Stockholm.
22. Bisin, Alberto, and Thierry Verdier (2001). "The Economics of Cultural Transmission and the Dynamics of Preferences." Journal of Economic Theory, 97, 298-319.
23. Bisin, Alberto, and Thierry Verdier (2005). "Cultural Transmission." The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan.
24. Cavalli-Sforza, Luigi (2001), Genes, People and Languages. University of California Press.
25. Chang, Eric, and Miriam Golden (2004). "Does Corruption Pay? The Survival of Politician Charged with Malfeasance in the Postwar Italian Chamber of Deputies." Working paper, Michigan State University.
26. Coleman, James (1990). Foundations of Social Theory. Harvard University Press.
27. Cukierman, Alex, Sebastian Edwards, and Guido Tabellini (1992). "Seigniorage and Political Instability." American Economic Review, 82(3), 537-555.
28. Dixit, Avinash Kamalakar (2004). Lawlessness and Economics - Alternative Models of Governance. Princeton University Press.
29. Dohmen, Thomas, Armin Falk, David Huffman, and Uwe Sunde (2006). "The Intergenerational Transmission of Risk and Trust Attitudes." IZA Discussion Paper No. 2380.
30. Fehr, Ernst, Urs Fischbacher, Bernhard von Rosenbladt, Juergen Schupp, and Gert Wagner (2003). "A Nation-Wide Laboratory. Examining Trust and Trustworthiness by Integrating Behavioral Experiments into Representative Surveys." CESifo Working Paper No. 866.
31. Fernandez, Raquel (2007a). "Culture as Learning: the Evolution of Labor Force Participation over a Century." NBER Working Paper no. 13373.
32. Fernandez, Raquel (2007b). "Alfred Marshall Lecture Women, Work, and Culture." Journal of the European Economic Association, 5, 305-332.
33. Fernandez, Raquel (2008). "Economics and Culture." In the New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition, edited by Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume. Palgrave Macmillan. forthcoming.
34. Fukuyama, Francis (1995). Trust. Free Press.
35. Gambetta, Diego ed. (1988). Trust: Making and Breaking Cooperative Relations. Blackwell.
36. Giavazzi, Francesco, and Guido Tabellini (2005). "Economic and Political Liberalizations." Journal of Monetary Economics, 52(7), 1297-1330.
37. Giuliano, Paola (2007). "Living Arrangements in Western Europe: Does Cultural Origin Matter?" Journal of the European Economic Association, 5(5), 927-952.
38. Glaeser, Edward L., David I. Laibson, Jose A. Scheinkman, and Christine L. Soutter (2000). "Measuring Trust." Quarterly Journal of Economics, 115(3), 811-846.
39. Glaeser, Edward L., Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez de Silanes, and Andrei Shleifer (2004). "Do Institutions Cause Growth." Journal of Economic Growth, 9, 271-304.
40. Glaeser, Edward L., Giacomo Ponzetto, and Andrei Shleifer (2006). "Why Does Democracy Need Education?" NBER Working Paper No. 12128.
41. Greif, Avner (1994), "Cultural Beliefs and the Organization of Society: A Historical and Theoretical Reflection on Collectivist and Individualist Societies." Journal of Political Economy, 102(5), 912-950.
42. Greif, Avner (2006). Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy: Lessons from Medieval Trade. Cambridge University Press.
43. Grossman, Sanford J., and Oliver D. Hart (1986). "The Costs and Benefits of Ownership: A Theory of Vertical and Lateral Integration." Journal of Political Economy, 94(4), 691-719.
44. Guiso, Luigi, Paola Sapienza, and Luigi Zingales (2004). "The Role of Social Capital in Financial Development." American Economic Review, 94, 526-556.
45. Guiso, Luigi, Paola Sapienza, and Luigi Zingales (2006). "Does Culture Affect Economic Outcomes?" Journal of Economic Perspectives, 20(2), 23-49.
46. Guiso, Luigi, Paola Sapienza, and Luigi Zingales (2007). "Long Term Persistence." Working paper, University of Chicago.
47. Guiso, Luigi, Paola Sapienza, and Luigi Zingales (2008). "Social Capital as Good Culture." Journal of the European Economic Association, 6(2-3), 295-320.
48. Hill, Jane H., and Bruce Manneheim (2002). "Language and World View." Annual Review of Anthropology, 21, 381-406.
49. Ichino, Andrea, and Giovanni Maggi (2000). "Work Environment and Individual Background: Explaining Regional Shirking Differentials in a Large Italian Firm." Quarterly Journal of Economics, 15(3), 1057-1090.
50. Kaplow, Louis, and Steven Shavell (2007). "Moral Rules, the Moral Sentiments, and Behavior: Toward a Theory of an Optimal Moral System." Journal of Political Economy, 115(3), 494-514.
51. Kashima, Emiko S., and Yoshihisa Kashima (2005). "Erratum to Kashima and Kashima (1998) and Reiteration." Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 36 (3) 396-400.
52. Kashima, Emiko S., and Yoshihisa Kashima (1998). "Culture and Language: The Case of Cultural Dimensions and Personal Pronoun Use." Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 29(3), 461-486.
53. Knack, Stephen (2002). "Social Capital and the Quality of Government: Evidence from the States." American Journal of Political Science, 46(4), 772-785.
54. Knack, Stephen, and Philip Keefer (1997). "Does Social Capital Have an Economic Pay-Off? A Cross Country Investigation." Quarterly Journal of Economics, 112(4), 1251-1288.
55. Kranton, Rachel (1996). "Reciprocal Exchange: A Self-Sustaining System." American Economic Review, 86(4), 830-851.
56. Landes, D. (1998). "The Wealth and Poverty of Nations". Abacus.
57. La Porta, Rafeal, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, Andrei Shleifer, and Robert W. Vishny (1997). "Trust in Large Organizations." American Economic Review, 87(2), 333-338.
58. Levchenko, Andrei (2004). "Institutional Quality and International Trade." IMF Working Paper No. WP/04/231.
59. Licht, Amir N., Chanan Goldschmidt, and Shalom H. Schwartz (2007). "Culture Rules: The Foundations of the Rule of Law and Other Norms of Governance" Journal of Comparative Economics, 35(4), 659-688.
60. Lipset, Seymour Martin (1959). "Some Social Requisites of Democracy: Economic Development and Politcal Legitimacy." American Political Science Review, 53(1), 69-105.
61. Maddison, Angus (2001). The World Economy: Historical Statistics. OECD.
62. Massey, Douglas S. (2002). "A Brief History of Human Society: The Origin and Role of Emotion in Social Life." American Sociological Review, 67(1), 1-20.
63. Myerson, Roger B. (1991). Game Theory: Analysis of Conflict. Harvard University Press.
64. Nisbet, Richard E. (2003). The Geography of Thought. N. Brealey Publishing.
65. North, Douglas (1981). Structure and Change in Economic History. Norton.
66. Nunn, Nathan (2007). "Relationship-Specificity, Incomplete Contracts and the Pattern of Trade." Quarterly Journal of Economics, 122(2), 569-600.
67. Persson, Torsten, and Tabellini, Guido (2006). "Democratic Capotal The Nexus of Political and Economic Change." Discussion paper, IGIER.
68. Persson, Torsten, and Tabellini, Guido (forthcoming). "The Growth Effects of Democracy: Is It Heterogenous and How Can It Be Estimated?" In Institutions and Economic Peformance, edited by E. Helpman. Harvard University Press.
69. Pinker, Steven (1997). How the Mind Works. Norton.
70. Platteau, Jean-Phillipe (2000). Institutions, Social Norms, and Fconomic Development. Academic Publishers.
71. Putnam, Robert (1993). Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy. Princeton University Press.
72. Rabin, Matthew (1993). "Incorporating Fairness into Game Theory and Economics." American Economic Review, 83(5), 1281-1302.
73. Rajan, Raghuram G., and Luigi Zingales (1998). "Financial Dependence and Growth." American Economic Review, 88(3), 559-586.
74. Rauch, James E. (1999). "Networks versus Markets in International Trade." Journal of International Economics, 48, 7-35.
75. Roland, Gerard (2004). "Understanding Institutional Change: Fast-Movirg and Slow-Moving Institutions." Studies in Comparative International Development, 38(4), 109-131.
76. Rubinstein Ariel (2000). The Economics of Language. Cambridge University Press.
77. Sapienza, Paola, Anna Toldra, and Luigi Zingales (2007). "Undersanding Trust." Working paper, University of Chicago.
78. Stein, Stanley J., and Barbara H. Stein (1970). The Colonial Heritage of Latin America. Oxford University Press.
79. Stella, Andrea, and Guido Tabellini (2007). "Political Accountability and Culture." Working paper, Bocconi University.
80. Uslaner, Eric M. (2005). "Where You Stand Depends on Where Your Grandparents Sat: The Inheritability of Generalized Trust." Working paper, University of Maryland.
81. Uslaner, Eric M. (2008). "Trust as a Moral Value." in Handbook of Social Capital, edited by Dario Castiglione, Jan W. van Deth, and Guglielmo Wolleb. Oxford University Press.
82. Tabellini, Guido (2005). "Culture and Institutions: Economic Development in the Regions of Europe." Working paper, IGIER.
83. Tabellini, Guido (2008). "The Scope of Cooperation: Norms and Incentives" Quarterly Journal of Economics, forthcoming.
84. The European Values Study Foundation and World Values Survey Association (EVSF-WVSA) (2006). European and World Values Surveys Four-Wave Integrated Data File, 1981-2004, v.20060423.
85. Weber, Max (1970). The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. George Allen and Unwin.
86. Weil, David (2005). Economic Growth. Addison Wesley.