Month: June 2023

The CPEIS Director Dr Luca Andriani has been invited to the Department of Management Impact Day to provide a presentation regarding:

• CPEIS research activities,
• CPEIS collaborations with other centres and institutes within and outside Birkbeck,  
• Academic impact of the CPEIS activities.   
• CPEIS future research agenda and organisational governance    

We are very pleased to announce that as a result of the workshop organised by the CPEIS jointly with the Centre for Comparative Studies of Emerging Economies at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES UCL) and the Institute for International Management (IIM) at Loughborough University London), on “Crisis and Persistence: Dynamics of institutional changes at the interface between formal and informal institutions”, a symposium of equivalent title for the Journal of Institutional Economics, guest edited by Dr Elodie Douarin and Prof Gerhard Schnyder is planning to be published.

We are very pleased to announce that as a result of the workshop organised by the CPEIS jointly with the Centre for Comparative Studies of Emerging Economies at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES UCL) and the Institute for International Management (IIM) at Loughborough University London), on “Institutions and Culture in Economic Contexts”, a special issue of equivalent title for the Journal of Institutional Economics, guest edited by Dr Luca Andriani and Dr Randolph Bruno have been published in February 2022   

Institutions and Culture in Economic Contexts

Volume 18 – Special Issue 1 – February 2022

• Determinants of institutional trust: the role of cultural context
• Anneli Kaasa, Luca Andriani

• Is tax morale culturally driven?
• Luca Andriani, Randolph Bruno, Elodie Douarin, Paulina Stepien-Baig

• Individualism and attitudes towards reporting corruption: evidence from post-communist economies
• Chiara Amini, Elodie Douarin, Tim Hinks

• Testing Todd: family types and development
• Jerg Gutmann, Stefan Voigt

• Creativity and security as a cultural recipe for entrepreneurship
• Tomasz Mickiewicz, Anneli Kaasa

• Economic freedom reform: does culture matter?
• Nicholas Moellman, Danko Tarabar

• Culture and institutions: a review of Joel Mokyr’s A Culture of Growth
• Geoffrey M. Hodgson

• Institutions, ideas and economic change: some reflections on Geoffrey Hodgson’s ‘Culture and Institutions’
• Joel Mokyr

Venue: School of Slavonic and East European Studies – University College London
Date: 19 June 2023

Paper Session 1: Inequality – Chair: Elodie Douarin

Does Inequality Enhance Life Satisfaction? A Longitudinal Investigation –
David Bartram (University of Leicester) – Discussant: Adeola Oyenubi

Gini who? An Empirical Study of the Relation between Perception of
Inequality and Life Satisfaction – Daniele Marchesi (University of Groningen)
Discussant: Tomasz Mickiewicz

Paper Session 2: Subjective Wellbeing
Chair: Luca Andriani

The Coronavirus Crisis and Subjective Wellbeing in Britain – Lateef Akanni
(University of Strathclyde)
Discussant: Chiara Amini

Spatial Inequality, sub-regional Governance and Subjective Well-being: the
case of South Africa – David Fadiran (University of Cape Town)
Discussant: Serena Merino

Paper Session 3: Gender and Culture
Chair: Randolph Bruno

Where Are Working Women Happier? Welfare State Policies and Female
employment across Europe – Effects on Subjective Well-Being – Judit Kalman
(Corvinus University)
Discussant: Gerhard Schnyder

Women’s work and inequality in the institutional perspective– Anna
Zachorowska-Mazurkiewicz (Jagiellonian University)
Discussant: Elodie Douarin

The Origins of Culture – Carmine Guerriero (University of Bologna)
Discussant: Tomas Cvrcek

Roundtable Discussion:
Institutions, Inequality, and (Un-) Happiness – Key research issues and way
forward
Chair: Gerhard Schnyder

Introduction: Luca Andriani, Elodie Douarin, Randolph Bruno and Gerhard
Schnyder
Open floor

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