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Social Capital and the Internet : Evidence from Swiss Panel Data
Franzen, Axel - 2012
A lively debate has recently emerged about the consequences of the diffusion of the Internet. While many social … scientists emphasize the beneficial economic consequences of the Internet some suspect that it has also disadvantages for users … sample of Swiss citizens. It analyzes the determinants of the adoption of the Internet and the consequences for respondents …
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Social capital and the Internet : evidence from Swiss panel data
Franzen, Axel - In: Kyklos : international review for social sciences 56 (2003) 3, pp. 341-360
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Richer and Cleaner? A Study on Carbon Dioxide Emissions in Developing Countries
Galeotti, Marzio; Lanza, Alessandro - 2013
The Climate Change debate has drawn attention to the problem of greenhouse gases emissions into the atmosphere. One of the most important issues in the policy debate is the role that should be played by developing countries in joining the commitment of developed countries to reduce GHG...
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Desperately Seeking (Environmental) Kuznets : A New Look at the Evidence
Galeotti, Marzio; Lanza, Alessandro; Pauli, Francesco - 2013
The number of studies seeking to empirically characterize the reduced-form relationship between a country economic growth and the quantity of pollutants produced in the process has recently increased significantly. In several cases researchers have found evidence pointing to an inverted-U...
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Explaining happiness trends in Europe
Easterlin, Richard A.; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2023
In Europe differences among countries in the overall change in happiness since the early 1980s have been due chiefly to the generosity of welfare state programs - increasing happiness going with increasing generosity and declining happiness with declining generosity. This is the principal...
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Social Capital Formation and Intra Familial Correlation : A Social Panel Perspective
Pfaffermayr, Michael - 2010
Social capital is widely regarded to constitute an important indicator for the economic performance of a society. This paper analyzes the impact of various socio-demographic characteristics on social capital. Proxy variables for social capital are obtained from a comprehensive principal...
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Inequality and Trust : Some Inequalities are More Harmful than Others
Gustavsson, Magnus J.; Jordahl, Henrik - 2017
We present new evidence on the influence of income inequality on generalized trust. Using individual panel data from Swedish counties together with an instrumental variable strategy we find that differences in disposable income, and especially differences among people in the bottom half of the...
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Has inflation targeting been successful? : evidence from unit root tests
Turkay, Mesut; Sencer Atasoy, Burak - In: Investigación económica : revista de la Faculdad de … 78 (2019) 308, pp. 120-139
The popularity of inflation targeting has risen in the last decade and the number of countries that adopted inflation targeting as their monetary policy framework surpassed 40 by the end of 2016. This study analyzes whether inflation targeting around the world has been successful in terms of...
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Why do financial market experts misperceive future monetary policy decisions?
Schmidt, Sandra; Nautz, Dieter - 2010
This paper investigates why financial market experts misperceive the interest rate policy of the European Central Bank (ECB). Assuming a Taylor-rule-type reaction function of the ECB, we use qualitative survey data on expectations about the future interest rate, inflation, and output to discover...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008663415
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Why do financial market experts misperceive future monetary policy decisions?
Schmidt, Sandra; Nautz, Dieter - 2010
This paper investigates why financial market experts misperceive the interest rate policy of the European Central Bank (ECB). Assuming a Taylor-rule-type reaction function of the ECB, we use qualitative survey data on expectations about the future interest rate, inflation, and output to discover...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003989026