Citizenship is at the heart of our contemporary world but it is a particular vision of national
citizenship forged in the French Revolution. In Citizens without Nations, Maarten Prak …

This paper aims to show how a region's constant level of social capital may have a very
different impact on its economic growth depending on whether the central or the local level …

Using Chinese A-share listed firms from 2003 to 2021, we investigate the impact of merchant
guild culture (MGC) on corporate cash holdings. Our results show that firms with stronger …

This article studies the semantics of the yet undeciphered Indus script. Indus inscriptions are
found mostly on seals, seal-impressions, tablets, and pottery, and occasionally on …

Based on social capital theory, this paper aims to investigate the impact of member
enterprises of alien merchant chambers on enterprise innovation, within A‐share listed …

What were the ethics of the first double entry bookkeepers in Italy from the end of the 12th to
the beginning of the 16th century? Did ethics impact their work? How were they taught and …

Craft guilds were created as a response to certain problems associated with raising royal
revenues and securing basic public services in Prague during the medieval and early …

Using a sample of A-share listed companies from the Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock
Exchanges from 2010 to 2020, this study examines the impact of membership in nonlocal …

This paper explores the impact of social ties on the diffusion of innovation across regions.
We particularly focus on social ties built through participating in Chinese alien merchant …

We experimentally analyze the effect of endogenous group formation on the type of
sanctioning institutions emerging in a society. We allocate subjects to one of two groups …