IOEA - Gérard Roland - Culture and Economics

(Tuesday, 17th May 2016)

Title : Culture and Economics

This lecture will give an introduction to the rapidly expanding field of culture and economics. I will give some background on this research, talk about the main methodologies used in research, go through some of the research on 1) the effects of culture on economic behavior, institutions and performance, 2) talk about the inertia of culture, 3) what we know about the determinants of cultural change in a country, 4) what we know about the determinants of cultural divergence across countries.

Bibliographical references :

Fernandez, R. (2011) "Does Culture Matter?" in, J. Benhabib, M. O. Jackson and A. Bisin, ed., Handbook of Social Economics, Vol. 1A, North-Holland, pp. 482-508.
http://repec.iza.org/dp5122.pdf

Algan, Y. and P. Cahuc (2014) "Trust, Growth and Happiness: New Evidence and policy Implications" in Handbook of Economic Growth, ed. Ph. Aghion and S. Durlauf, vol. 2A 2014.
http://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/80590/1/751402419.pdf

Alesina, Alberto F. and Paula Giuliano (2014) "Culture and Institutions," Journal of Economic Literature
http://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/114123/1/dp9246.pdf

Gorodnichenko and Roland (2011) "Understanding the Individualism-Collectivism Cleavage and its Effects: Lessons from Cultural Psychology"
http://eml.berkeley.edu/~groland/pubs/IEA%20papervf.pdf

Tabellini, G. (2010) "Culture and Institutions: Economic Development in the Regions of Europe," Journal of the European Economic Association 8(4), 677-716.
http://tuvalu.santafe.edu/~bowles/InstitutionsAndCulture.pdf

Gérard Roland
University of California at Berkeley

Title : Culture and Economics

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Gérard Roland
University of California at Berkeley