Arruñada, BenitoLópez-Manuel, LucasUniversitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament d'Economia i Empresa2024-11-142024-11-142024-04-01http://hdl.handle.net/10230/68634By refining the moral code and enforcing it through the new 'mendicant' orders, the Church of the 13th century laid the cognitive, interpersonal, and institutional groundwork for large-scale cooperation based on one-shot transactions between strangers. However, net outcomes at these three levels stem from opposite-sign effects coherent with the specialization of specific branches within the Church: while exposure to Dominicans had positive effects on traits favoring impersonal exchange, consistent with their emphasis on rationality, exposure to Franciscans had negative effects, related to their emotionality, and favoring personal exchange. Moreover, the effects of exposure to the secular clergy were insignificant. Our causal identification relies on refuting multiple confounders, comparing second-generation migrants, and leveraging withincountry differences in mendicants'exposure in Europe and Mesoamerica.application/pdfengL'accés als continguts d'aquest document queda condicionat a l'acceptació de les condicions d'ús establertes per la següent llicència Creative CommonsThe medieval church and the foundations of impersonal exchange<resourceType xmlns="http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-3" resourceTypeGeneral="Other">info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaper</resourceType><subject xmlns="http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-3" subjectScheme="keyword">cultural change</subject><subject xmlns="http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-3" subjectScheme="keyword">values</subject><subject xmlns="http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-3" subjectScheme="keyword">institutions</subject><subject xmlns="http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-3" subjectScheme="keyword">religion</subject><subject xmlns="http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-3" subjectScheme="keyword">catholic church</subject><subject xmlns="http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-3" subjectScheme="keyword">persistence</subject><subject xmlns="http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-3" subjectScheme="keyword">late middle ages</subject><subject xmlns="http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-3" subjectScheme="keyword">Business Economics and Industrial Organization</subject><rights xmlns="http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-3">info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess</rights>