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Financial Crisis in a Socialist Setting
Ran Abramitzky
其他書名
Impact on Political Behavior, Social Trust, and Economic Values
出版
National Bureau of Economic Research
, 2023
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=qjbVzwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
Research on the political and social impacts of financial crises has focused chiefly on free market economies, hindering our understanding of their effects in other settings. We exploit an episode of a financial crisis that hit the Israeli kibbutzim to study its impact in a socialist context. Contrary to findings in capitalistic economies, the crisis led to increased support of liberalized labor markets and reduced support for leftist political parties. These effects persisted in the long run, especially among the young. The crisis also reduced trust in leadership, but trust was restored shortly after agreements to settle the debt were signed, relieving the severity of the crisis. Our findings suggest that economic shocks may have different effects in a free market and socialist systems, in both cases leading individuals to question their current system.