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Social Trust and Patterns of Growth
The association between social trust and economic growth is well-documented but how it works remains an open theoretical and empirical question. The paper uses growth accounting to break down sources…
Journal Article
Publish date 3/15/2022
Trust Us to Repay: Social Trust, Long-Term Interest Rates, and Sovereign Credit Ratings
This paper asks whether the sensitivity of market long-term interest rates and credit ratings is associated with cross-country differences in informal institutions, measured by social trust. We note a…
Journal Article
Publish date 8/13/2021
Does Economic Freedom Boost Growth for Everyone?
While the association between economic freedom and long‐term economic growth has been well documented, the parallel research literature on the distributional consequences of economic freedom is full o…
Journal Article
Publish date 5/4/2021
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Cultures of Trust and Institutions of Freedom
This project entails two interrelated core themes: Can institutions embodying economic freedom, contrary to the skepticism of some, contribute to fairness, trust, equality and responsibility; and can…
Research project
The Fatal Conceit: Swedish Education after Nazism
In the aftermath of the Second World War, Sweden dismantled an education system that was strongly influenced by German, Neo-Humanist pedagogical principles in favor of a progressive, student-centered…
Journal Article
Publish date 4/29/2022
The View of Knowledge: An Institutional Theory of Differences in Educational Quality
This essay argues that the most crucial institution of any school system is its view of knowledge—from which virtually all other aspects of a school are derived: the content of its curricula, its peda…
Working Paper
Publish date 6/22/2022
Do Firms in Rural Regions Lack Access to Credit? Local Variation in Small Business Loans and Firm Growth
We investigate whether bank loans specifically designed to reduce credit constraints for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have different impacts depending on where the firm is located. Using…
Journal Article
Publish date 1/27/2022