The problem of identification of efficient economic conditions, arising from the «horizontal» agents’ relationship, is considered. It’s shown that the application of classical concept of market failure is insufficient. The alternative concept of disbalances are examined. The greater...

Higher schooling attainment is associated with better cognitive function at older ages, but it remains unclear whether the relationship is causal. We estimate causal effects of schooling on performances on the Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer's Disease (CERAD) word-recall...

We explore the value that lawyers in Greece attribute to knowledge of economics and business methods, both in terms of the legal fields where this knowledge is most useful and the specific areas of economics and business expertise that support their professional practice. Our findings, based on...

Public opinion expressed through organized protests is a long-standing concept which forms an integral component of the nation's pre-colonial and post-colonial environment, not just in the twenty-first century, but dating back to the medieval ages. Protests and demonstrations have traditionally...

This study advances the understanding of risk measures and portfolio choice for investors exhibiting gain-loss dependent risk attitudes by integrating stochastic dominance (SD) concepts, including prospect stochastic dominance (PSD) and Markowitz stochastic dominance (MSD). We demonstrate that...

This paper quantitatively examines the refugee absorption/integration rates across Türkiye’s 81 provinces while considering the geographical and economic features of each of the 81 provinces. The study mainly focuses on the distribution of Syrian refugees under temporary protection in...

This study critically reviews Afonso (2024), who proposes a model of economic growth that considers automation capital, traditional capital, skilled labor, and unskilled labor. In his definition of a balanced growth path, the progress of automation makes both the ratio of skilled labor to all...

Research conducted worldwide has established that industrial agglomeration can improve firm productivity, regardless of policy and institutional factors. In this study, we utilize firm-level data from the Chinese Industrial Enterprises Database (CIED) for the period of 1998-2014 to analyze the...

Hoyt Bleakley and Paul Rhode use a “regression discontinuity design” (RDD) to find a persistent negative effect of slavery’s legality on rural population density throughout the period from 1790 to 1860. Yet their reported results cannot be replicated. Instead, the replication shows...

Two natural experiments challenge the view that slavery impeded the growth of American capitalism. An event study shows that farm values fell relative to the national average in slave states following abolition. A spatial regression discontinuity design (RDD) then suggests that any negative...