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Is female leadership the secret ingredient to financial prosperity? This question has been the subject of extensive research, yet the findings remain inconclusive. We aim to provide a comprehensive understanding of this relationship employing contemporary techniques on the up-to-date dataset...

This manuscript is a methodological work on the state of research using meta-analytic procedures in Economic Psychology, with a focus on the investigation of cross-cultural differences. We review published meta-analyses and introduce a new classification thereof by data source, describing how...

This article evolved as part of the research project ‘Transformation-oriented innovation policy in the bio-economy-status, potentials and strategies’, which has been supported by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research under grant number 031B0781A. The authors thank an anonymous...