Institutions and Morals: A Reply

  • Author:

    Armin Falk and Nora Szech

  • Source:

    European Journal of Political Economy, 2015, Vol. 40, 391-394; DOI:10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2015.07.003

  • Date: 2015
  • Breyer and Weimann (2015) suggest interpreting the results of our study on Morals and Markets (2013a,b) in "the opposite way". In the following, we briefly discuss why this claim is unwarranted. We hope that these clarifications will help inspiring future work on causal effects of markets and other institutions on moral values.