Search Results - subject:"class structure"

Analysis and dividend policy of dual and single class US corporations

Amoko-Adu, Ben; Baulkaran, Vishaal; Smith, Brian F. - In: Journal of economics & business 72 (2014), pp. 1-29

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010258398

Lopez, Felix Garcia; Sá e Silva, Fábio de - 2014

This paper addresses the relationship between social structure and social values in the Brazilian society in light of survey data from a national sample of 3,772 respondents. In addition to examining traditional variables – such as income and education –, the analysis incorporated...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010405669

The Coevolution of Economic and Political Development from Monarchy to Democracy

Huang, Fali - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007

This paper establishes a simple model of long run economic and political development, which is driven by the inherent technical features of dierent production factors and the political con.icts among factor owners on how to divide the outputs. The main production factor in economy evolves from...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365197

The Coevolution of Economic and Political Development

Huang, Fali - School of Economics, Singapore Management University - 2006

This paper establishes a simple model of long run economic and political development, which is driven by the inherent technical features of different production factors, and political conflicts among factor owners on how to divide the outputs. The main capital form in economy evolves from land...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005091210

The Coevolution of Economic and Political Development

Huang, Fali - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006

This paper establishes a simple model of long run economic and political development, which is driven by the inherent technical features of dierent production factors, and political conicts among factor owners on how to divide the outputs. The main capital form in economy evolves from land to...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365249

Born lucky – or just lucky to be born rich? A note

Groezinger, Gerd - In: International Journal of Public Policy 5 (2010) 4, pp. 430-435

A paper by social psychologists proclaimed that, for UK citizens, it could be shown that being born in the summer half-year was associated with a significantly higher belief in being lucky, compared with being born in the winter half-year. Are we that much determined by nonsocial forces? A test...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009353037

Class position and Economic Behavior in a Tunisian Village: Selective Separability in a Multi-Factor Household Model

ARCAND, Jean-Louis; CONNING; ETHIER - Centre d'Études et de Recherches sur le Développement … - 1999

separability in the context of a model of class structure based on the seminal work of Eswaran and Kotwal (1986). In order to do so …, we construct a model of class structure which offers an appealing representation of the typology of household types in … how credit constraints and imperfections on factor markets shape the class structure of the agrarian economy. The …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005016471

The Coevolution of Economic and Political Development from Monarchy to Democracy

Huang, Fali - School of Economics, Singapore Management University - 2007

This paper establishes a simple model of long run economic and political development, which is driven by the inherent technical features of different production factors and the political conflicts among factor owners on how to divide the outputs. The main production factor in economy evolves...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005006760

The Coevolution of Economic and Political Development

Huang, Fali - Institut for Miljø og Erhvervsøkonomi, Syddansk … - 2006

This paper establishes a simple model of long run economic and political development, which is driven by the inherent technical features of different factors in production, and political conflicts among factor owners on how to divide the outputs. The main capital form in economy evolves from...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005482011

Social structure and consumption: on the diffusion of consumer good innovation

Reinstaller, Andreas; Sanditov, Bulat - In: Journal of Evolutionary Economics 15 (2005) 5, pp. 505-531

. Combining these two effects, we conclude that a social structure displaying behavioral variety and an even class structure fares … goods. Following a Veblenian theme, we interpret consumption as a social activity constrained by social norms and class … structure. Societies that allow for more behavioral variety will experience faster adoption of new consumer goods. We also find …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005396187