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Going green with behavioural economics: How to combine business and ethics

Enste, Dominik; Wildner, Julia; Nafziger, Lucia - 2021

This paper calls for an increased discourse between Fridays for Future and representatives of business. Fridays for … system. We need to understand how to expand our economy in a sustainable way, how business can foster sustainable innovations …. At the same time this concern is not always translated into our actions. Behavioural Economics integrates psychological …

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Data (r)evolution - The economics of algorithmic search and recommender services

Budzinski, Oliver; Gänßle, Sophia; … - 2021

The paper analyses the economics behind algorithmic search and recommender services, based upon personalized user data … widespread employment of algorithmic search and recommendation systems. In doing so, we summarize the existing economics …

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Law of one price: BigMac versus Fortnite - A note

Pierdzioch, Christian; Schöber, Timo; Stadtmann, Georg - 2021

We analyze the law of one price (LoP) based on BigMac and Fortnite prices. We find a positive but less than perfect correlation between the over-/undervaluations of the two indices. While we cannot reject the LoP for the Fortnite data, we find that it does not hold for the BigMac data.

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Premature deindustrialization and income inequality in middle-income countries

Ravindran, Rekha; Babu, Suresh M - 2021

displaced workers are absorbed into low-productivity and informal market services (especially with employment increase in non-business …

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Do tax administrative interventions targeted at small businesses improve tax compliance and revenue collection? Evidence from Ugandan administrative tax data

Jouste, Maria; Nalukwago, Milly I.; Waiswa, Ronald - 2021

expansion and education programme, and a new electronic filing system for presumptive tax-on the number of small business … both presumptive taxpayers and comparable small corporate income taxpayers, we find that the number of small business …

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The Adoption of Blockchain Technology in Supply Chains: An Investigation in Logistics

Toptancı, Ali İskan - 2021

in 2018 to $ 3 billion by 2023. Blockchain will improve the business for all global supply chain stakeholders by …

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Goverment debt post COVID-19: Back to golden rules

Breuer, Christian - 2021

The COVID-19 crisis has caused public debt to increase dramatically, which is why the German and European fiscal rules are currently suspended. In addition to the new assessment of the fiscal costs at low interest rates, the discussion on the reintroduction of fiscal rules in Germany and Europe...

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Community influence as an explanatory factor why Roma children get little schooling

Stark, Oded; Berlinschi, Ruxanda - 2021

Parents who experience poverty and who want to provide their children with an escape route can be expected to encourage and support their progeny's education. The evidence that Roma parents behave differently is unsettling. In this paper we test empirically an explanation for that behavior. The...

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External financial dependence and firms' crisis performance across Europe

Eppinger, Peter S.; Neugebauer, Katja - 2021

How do financial market conditions affect real economic performance? Empirical investigations of this question have often relied on measures of external financial dependence (EFD) that are constructed using U.S. data and applied to other countries under the assumption of a stable industry...

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Turning relative deprivation into a performance incentive device

Stark, Oded; Kosiorowski, Grzegorz - 2021

The inclination of individuals to improve their performance when it lags behind that of others with whom they naturally compare themselves can be harnessed to optimize the individuals' effort in work and study. In a given set of individuals, we characterize each individual by his relative...

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