This paper reviews the literature on culture and economics, focusing primarily on the
epidemiological approach. The epidemiological approach studies the variation in outcomes …

Understanding the proximate and ultimate sources of human cooperation is a fundamental
issue in all behavioural sciences. In this paper, we review the experimental evidence on …

Private information is at the heart of many economic activities. For decades, economists
have assumed that individuals are willing to misreport private information if this maximizes …

To understand why investors hold socially responsible mutual funds, we link administrative
data to survey responses and behavior in incentivized experiments. We find that both social …

Loss aversion is one of the most widely used concepts in behavioral economics. We conduct
a large-scale, interdisciplinary meta-analysis to systematically accumulate knowledge from …

The purpose of this book is to introduce novice researchers to the tools of meta-analysis and
meta-regression analysis and to summarize the state of the art for existing practitioners …

Over the last 25 years, more than a hundred dictator game experiments have been
published. This meta study summarises the evidence. Exploiting the fact that most …

We collect data from 162 replications of the Berg, Dickhaut, and McCabe Investment game
(the “trust” game) involving more than 23,000 participants. We conduct a meta-analysis of …

We find strong evidence that three key dimensions of national culture (trust, hierarchy, and
individualism) affect merger volume and synergy gains. The volume of cross-border mergers …

What could middle-class German supermarket shoppers buying eggs and impoverished
coffee farmers in Guatemala possibly have in common? Both groups use the market in …