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From a sample of Asian countries over the period 1999-2007, this paper investigates the link between bank competition and economic development. In general, although banking market power has a U-shaped relationship with economic growth, banking market power tends to improve economic growth....
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This article explains the level of economic freedom in Muslim countries through the theory of institutional path dependency. Islamic countries are generally not free and they have a poor record regarding property rights. To explain these realities we use the institutional history of Muslim...
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This article explains the level of economic freedom in Muslim countries through the theory of institutional path dependency. Islamic countries are generally not free and they have a poor record regarding property rights. To explain these realities we use the institutional history of Muslim...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010605326
This article explores some of the challenges faced when managing virtual teams, in particular the role played by trust …
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This article considers the effects of uncertainty, structure, trust and resistance to change on the success or failure … facilitate or impede the diffusion process. Trust is operationalized through strong ties and structure is modeled with the …. This research aims at exploring the effects of uncertainty, trust, structure and perception of a management accounting …
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This paper investigates the relationship between trust and macroeconomic volatility. In a cross section of countries …, we show that higher trust is associated with lower macroeconomic instability. We use the inherited trust of Americans as … an instrumental variable of trust in their origin country to overcome all potential reverse causality concerns. We use …
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retirement incentives set by governments. We show the importance of trust given to the employer in wage negotiations by a simple … of the distribution of trust to employers at the country level. We then identify these properties by an empirical study … conditions. This results also applies to countries with higher generalized trust. …
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This paper documents the co-evolution of social capital, measured as generalized trust, and financial development over … the twentieth century. I use cross generations inherited trust of Americans with foreign ancestors to track trust in their … home country in 1913 and 1990. The paper documents a positive cross-section relationship between trust and financial …
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, provided that they trust political institutions. Our findings suggest that one solution to the recent electoral backlash of …
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In Part 1, this paper provides an overview of historical, legal, political and cultural factors which have shaped, to this day, the system of industrial relations in France. Drawing on the quantitative results of an on-line survey and on the qualitative analysis of a series of interviews with a...
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