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The Firms Speak: What the World Business Environment Survey Tells Us about Constraints on Private Sector Development

Kaufmann, Daniel; Batra, Geeta; Stone, Andrew H. W. - 2003

This chapter summarizes the salient results of the World Business Environment Survey (WBES). It shows that important …

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Succession planning in Polish family business. An exploratory investigation (chapter 4)

Surdej, Aleksander; Wach, Krzysztof - 2010

The main aim of the paper is to identify the succession strategies (especially the ways in which they attempt to balance the strive to maintain family’s control over the company with the goal of firm’s growth) of the first generation of Polish entrepreneurs. Research survey was conducted on...

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If You Think 9-Ending Prices Are Low, Think Again

Snir, Avichai; Levy, Daniel - 2019

9-ending prices are a dominant feature of many retail settings, which according to the existing literature, is because consumers perceive them as being relatively low. Are 9-ending prices really lower than comparable non 9-ending prices? Surprisingly, the empirical evidence on this question is...

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Understanding corporate social responsibility of the corporate sector to Sustainable Development Goal for energy in Nepal

Bista, Raghu - 2018

Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 7: energy for all is a global agenda to Nepal, where about 85 percent rural population have not access to energy for lighting and about 40 percent of the bottom 20 percent extreme poor access energy. The government has been initiating alternative energy to...

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Role and relevance of business incubators in ICT led global educational system: case for eco-enterprise village

Koshy, Perumal - 2010

world over in the next 5 years. As many as 45 million young people enter the job market annually, at a global level. There …

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The Market for Fake Reviews

He, Sherry; Hollenbeck, Brett; Proserpio, Davide - 2021

We study the market for fake product reviews on Amazon.com. These reviews are purchased in large private internet groups on Facebook and other sites. We hand-collect data on these markets to characterize the types of products that buy fake reviews and then collect large amounts of data on the...

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The Market for Fake Reviews

He, Sherry; Hollenbeck, Brett; Proserpio, Davide - 2021

We study the market for fake product reviews on Amazon.com. These reviews are purchased in large private internet groups on Facebook and other sites. We hand collect data on these markets to understand what products buy fake reviews and then collect a panel of data on these products’ ratings...

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Governance Redux: The Empirical Challenge

Kaufmann, Daniel - 2003

Building from the 2002/03 contribution to the Global Competitiveness Report ("Governance Crossroads"), this paper argues that governance continues to be at a crossroad, its underperformance being evident in most regions and across many countries. This ('governance policy gap') contrasts with the...

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Propuestas para mejorar el Federalismo Fiscal en Argentina: Un nuevo esquema para la distribución del Impuesto a las Ganancias

Bertello, Nicolas; Uña, Gerardo - 2009

To promote and contribute to the discussion of fiscal federalism in Argentina, this paper presents a proposal to amend the distribution of the revenue from the Income Tax between the Nation and the provinces. The proposal is based on the need to help reinvigorate the discussion on the...

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A behavioral approach to the political and economic inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

Boettke, Peter - 2011

book explains well what this volume is all about--why economics can’t explain the modern world. An important modifier would … be – modern economics can’t explain the modern world – because much of what McCloskey argues is the resurrection of an … Friedman. Fundamentally, she reasserts the power of ideas to shape the world. McCloskey’s narrative is simple and compelling …

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