We use data from the 2006 round of the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) to describe perceptions of the … corruption in order to reduce these externalities. We also find that individual perceptions of social capital and corruption co …

perceptions are crucial for the actions of economic agents this distinction matters. A discrepancy between actual and perceived … perceptions. We investigate the mismatch between actual and perceived transparency and its relevance by analyzing data of a Dutch … household survey on the European Central Bank’s transparency. To benefit from higher transparency perceptions the European …

disasters, terrorism, and violent conflicts – on the perceptions of entrepreneurs concerning some key entrepreneurial issues … extreme events is likely to be exogenous to the perceptions affecting it so that we can identify a causal link from events to … entrepreneurs and their perceptions. Using individual-level data from 43 countries from the period 2002 to 2005, we find that …

We use Swedish adoption data combined with police register data to study parent-son associations in crime. For adopted …