Productivity, or the amount of output produced by a given number of inputs,can be measured in a number of ways;1 the focus of Governmentpolicy, and much of the theoretical and empirical literature, is on labourproductivity, which provides the theme of the discussion in this review.A central...

The growth process for a technological leader is different from that of a follower.While followers can grow through imitation and capital deepening, a leader must undertakeoriginal research. This suggests that as the gap between the leader and the follower narrows, thefollower must undertake...

Personal ist ein strategischer Erfolgsfaktor für die Arbeit von Museen.Die sich verschärfenden Umfeld- und Marktbedingungen, denen sich der kulturelle Sektorgegenübersieht, verleihen der Notwendigkeit für ein Personalmanagement zusätzlich Nachdruck.Das Themenfeld Museum und Personal wurde...

This paper examines the impact of mass media and information andcommunications technologies (ICT) as knowledge-based infrastructures oneconomic development. The results strongly suggest that both mass me-dia and ICT penetration are negatively associated with corruption. Thisresult holds across...

Iannaccone’s (1991) seminal paper assigns basic market principles to the market for religion. Ina competitive market with high religious diversity the level of overall religiosity should increase. TheSecularization Hypothesis suggests that the establishment of new churches casts doubt on the...

This study validates a survey-based measure of general risk attitude by an incentivecompatible experiment among more than 900 participants in rural Thailand. The surveymeasure of self-assessed risk attitude provides a useful approximation of the experimentallyderived risk attitude. This holds...

This paper uses the framework of long-term financial system development to describe andassess the reform process in Thailand after 1997. The present financial reforms are well inline with the pattern of financial development found in the academic literature. A detailedanalysis of capital...