In the past decades, a great interest has emerged in understanding the nature of people's well-being beyond consumption opportunities. It is widely believed that happiness research based on self-reports on people's satisfaction with life has made a significant contribution to this understanding....

After the illegal annexation of Crimea and Russia's indirect responsibility for the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine, what will it take before the EU can effectively confront a conflict on its borders and prove to both its own citizens and third countries that it has a...

This paper relies on the augmented Taylor rule to evaluate the reaction function of the historical path of nominal monetary policy rate in Nigeria in the period 1996:Q1-2014:Q4. The main technique of analysis is the GMM econometric approach and the reaction function is augmented with the real...

The broadly accepted housing affordability indicator is calculated as the housing cost-to-income ratio. But this only takes into consideration two averaged variables: household housing costs and household income, both of which are ambiguous and misleading as an across-the-board average. An...

The New Zealand government is required to have a policy on every subject at all times. Essentially, the executive government has two fundamental types of activity: developing policy and executing it. There are many different sources of policy, including those in the political system such as...