Arthur Silve

Bio: Arthur Silve is an academic researcher from Laval University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Variety (cybernetics) & Instrumental variable. The author has an hindex of 4, co-authored 12 publications receiving 47 citations. Previous affiliations of Arthur Silve include Paris School of Economics.

Migration and Cultural Change

Abstract: We examine both theoretically and empirically how migration affects cultural change in home and host countries. Our theoretical model integrates various compositional and cultural transmission mechanisms of migration-based cultural change for which it delivers distinctive testable predictions on the sign and direction of convergence. We then use the World Value Survey for the period 1981-2014 to build time-varying measures of cultural similarity for a large number of country pairs and exploit within country-pair variation over time. Our evidence is inconsistent with the view that immigrants are a threat to the host country’s culture. While migrants do act as vectors of cultural diffusion and bring about cultural convergence, this is mostly to disseminate cultural values and norms from host to home countries (i.e., cultural remittances).

Global Regulations for a Digital Economy: Between New and Old Challenges

Abstract: Digital technologies are often described as posing unique challenges for public regulators worldwide. Their fast-pace and technical nature are viewed as being incompatible with the relatively slow and territorially bounded public regulatory processes. In this paper, we argue that not all digital technologies pose the same challenges for public regulators. We more precisely maintain that the digital technologies' label can be quite misleading as it actually represents a wide variety of technical artifacts. Based on two dimensions, the level of centralization and (im)material nature, we provide a typology of digital technologies that importantly highlights how different technical artifacts affect differently local, national, regional and global distributions of power. While some empower transnational businesses, others can notably reinforce states' power. By emphasizing this, our typology contributes to ongoing discussions about the global regulation of a digital economy and helps us identify the various challenges that it might present for public regulators globally. At the same time, it allows us to reinforce previous claims that these are importantly, not all new and that they often require us to solve traditional cooperation problems.

How Informality Can Address Emerging Issues: Making the Most of the G7

Abstract: The G7 should address new, unprecedented and highly disruptive issues that characterise our complex world, rather than well‐understood international problems that fit into existing categories. We argue that the G7 can do this by playing to its strengths – informality and like‐mindedness in particular – in addressing emerging and transversal issues such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and cryptocurrencies.

Asset Complementarity, Resource Shocks, and the Political Economy of Property Rights:

Abstract: Collaboration between two groups that may invest their resources in a common productive activity has the potential to lead to conflict over the output of that activity. This article examines the st...

Civic Capital as the Missing Link

Abstract: This chapter reviews the recent debate about the role of social capital in economics. We argue that all the difficulties this concept has encountered in economics are due to a vague and excessively broad definition. For this reason, we restrict social capital to the set of values and beliefs that help cooperation - which for clarity we label civic capital. We argue that this definition differentiates social capital from human capital and satisfies the properties of the standard notion of capital. We then argue that civic capital can explain why differences in economic performance persist over centuries and discuss how the effect of civic capital can be distinguished empirically from other variables that affect economic performance and its persistence, including institutions and geography.

Cosmopolitan Communications: Cultural Diversity in a Globalized World

Abstract: * Cosmopolitan Communications: Cultural Diversity in a Globalized World. Pippa Norris and Ronald Inglehart. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2009. 430 pp. $90 hbk. $25.99 pbk. Cosmopolitan Communications: Cultural Diversity in a Globalized World reiterates that cultures are robust and fairly impervious to Western cultural primacy. Building on similar points made in other recent globalization and media books, authors Pippa Norris and Ronald Inglehart borrow the "firewall" metaphor from information technology and apply it as a theoretical framework to the ongoing era of 24/7 global information exchange. The authors bring impressive credentials to this project: Norris is McGuire Lecturer in comparative politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and Inglehart is a professor of political science and director of the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. Cosmopolitan Communications is a new addition to a book series dedicated to investigating the intersections of communication, society, and politics. Considering the flood of books on globalization, this tome stands out for its predictions that "individual use of the news media" directly influences one's values and ideological stances on issues ranging from "religion, gender equality" to political concerns for "selfexpression values and human rights." Norris and Inglehart address the ubiquitous question characterizing globalization and media studies: "What happens to distant rural communities in Bhutan... far-flung districts... in Burkina Faso, Burma and Afghanistan, once the world connects directly to these places and the people living in them learn more about the world? Will this process generate cultural convergence around modern values, and will national diversity be threatened?" The authors rely on data from the World Values Survey (WVS), surmising that "modern values" have not seemed to penetrate stalwart cultural reserves of tribal allegiance, regional dominance, and socio-political regression - problems that plague the societies of much of the cell-phone toting, television-watching developing nations around the world, particularly those of the global South. The authors' "firewall" metaphor helps to account for the persistence of woes like virulent nationalism, since Norris and Inglehart posit that far-flung, less connected citizens in remote societies are prevented from becoming "cosmopolitan," being mired in "parochialism" by obstacles such as "social psychological barriers" or lack of "integration into world markets, freedom of the press, and widespread access to the media." The authors use the term "cosmopolitan" teleologically to invoke the potential for democracy to develop under ideal interConnectivity to globalization's flows of media and capital. Part I of the book explores markets and poverty as "firewalls" that impede change, while it also classifies nationstates along a cosmopolitan-to-parochial scale. …