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The Effectiveness of Competition Policy: An Econometric Assessment in Developed and Developing Countries

Samà, Danilo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

The ultimate objective of the present paper is to empirically investigate the effectiveness of competition policy in developed and developing countries. Although its importance is continuously increasing, the effectiveness of competition policy still seems to lack the attention that it would...

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Financial liberalization, financial development and economic growth: An empirical analysis for Turkey

ince, meltem - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

The objective of the paper is to seek how financial growth affects economic growth in Turkey in the flourishing world. The financial market is changed and developed very rapidly in the last decade. Moreover the change of financial market has also been brought some innovations and new policies....

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Weather and Income: Lessons from the main European regions

García-León, David - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015

Some recent papers by Dell et al. (2009) and Dell et al. (2012) (DJO) relating weather and economic outcomes, have delivered meaningful messages with clear implications to the effects of a changing climate. In a nutshell, the authors claim that a 1°C increase in global average temperatures...

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Do immigrant-owned businesses grow financially? An empirical study of African immigrant-owned businesses in the South Africa

Tengeh, RK; Ballard, HB; Slabbert, AS - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Given the fact that numerous challenges prohibit African immigrants from availing financial capital for the purpose of starting a business in South Africa, this paper sets out to investigate whether those that succeeded experienced a significant increment in their financial capital three or more...

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Religious Diversity and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa: So Far So Good

Kodila-Tedika, Oasis; Agbor, Julius - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper investigates the effects of religion on a broad set of development outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa. We … gender protection). Using two new measures of religion – religious fractionalization (RELFRAC) and religious polarization … (RELPOL), alongside the traditional measure of religious diversity, our results suggest that broadly speaking, religion or …

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Contemporary Ecumenism between the Theologians’ Discourse and the Reality of Inter-confessional Dialogue. Case Study: Bihor

Brie, Mircea - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Religious freedom in Romania after 1989 has contributed decisively to changes in the religious structure in the country. From a religious point of view, the fall of the communist regime meant the end of abuse or interdictions for many people and communities. Discussing about ecumenism and...

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Contemporary Ecumenism between Theologians’ Discourse and the Reality of Inter-confessional Dialogue. Case Study: Bihor

Brie, Mircea - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Religious freedom after 1989 would decisively contribute to changes in the religious structure. From a religious point of view, the fall of the communist regime meant the end of a time of abuse or interdictions for many people and communities. Discussing about ecumenism and interreligious or...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011261068

The Dark Side of Leadership: An Experiment on Religious Heterogeneity and Cooperation in India.

Keuschnigg, Marc; Schikora, Jan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

We investigate voluntary contribution to public goods in culturally heterogeneous groups with a laboratory experiment conducted among 432 Hindu and Muslim subjects in India. With our specification of 'Leading by example' we test for an interaction effect between leadership and religious...

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The 2007-2008 global financial crisis, and cross-border mergers and acquisitions: A 26-nation exploratory study

Reddy, Kotapati Srinivasa; Nangia, Vinay Kumar; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

Many interdisciplinary studies of the 2007–2008 global financial crisis examine the causes of crisis, corporate governance and firm value, stock market efficiency, new firm registration, macroeconomic performance, and compare this crisis to previous crises. However, we do not find conceptual...

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Government Spending on Education and Closing the Gender Gap : The Case of Developing Economies

Emara, Noha; Hegazy, Azza - 2021

Within the context of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the gender equality in education is considered one of the most challenging goals for most developing economies. Using Panel Least Square with Regional Dummies (LSDV) for a sample of Developing countries over the period 1990 to 2014,...

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