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Enforcing IPR through informal institutions: The possible role of religion in fighting software piracy

Elbialy, Nora; Gouda, Moamen - 2011

piracy is conducted. As Islam generally prohibits IPR piracy, a set of policy recommendations based on new institutional …

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Democracy and countries with Muslim majorities: A reply and update

Potrafke, Niklas - 2012

democratic. Hanusch takes issue with my results - and by inference with all past empirical results on the relation between Islam …. He establishes his conclusion by excluding the heartland of Islam from the estimation sample. For his estimates, Hanusch … in the heartland of Islam. …

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Islam and entrepreneurship: The role of Islamic banking

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Badreldin, Ahmed - 2022

Studies on the relationship between religion and Entrepreneurship suggest that Islam discourages entrepreneurship. This … the negative effect of Islam on entrepreneurship only applies in the absence of Shariah-compliant access to finance. This … negative effect disappears in the presence of Islamic banks, thus disproving the generalized claim that Islam discourages …

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Terrorism and the regional and religious risk perception of foreigners: The case of German tourists

Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Franke, Bastian; Maennig, Wolfgang - 2009

This paper analyses how German tourists react to unanticipated shocks that alter their risk perception of selected tourism destinations. Using a difference-in-difference strategy which flexibly accounts for macroeconomic conditions and also addresses potential problems of serial correlation, we...

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Effect of interest rate on economic performance: evidence from Islamic and non-Islamic economies

Mushtaq, Saba; Siddiqui, Danish Ahmed - In: Financial Innovation 2 (2016) 9, pp. 1-14

Background: Saving and investment are two of the most important tools for economic growth. The interest rate has always been considered an important determinant of saving and investment. However, according to Islamic teachings, riba or earning interest on saving or investment is forbidden, and...

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Avoiding Middle-income Trap in Muslim Majority Countries: The Effect of Total Factor Productivity, Human Capital, and Age Dependency Ratio

Mirjalili, Seyed Hossein; Mohseni Cheraghlou, Amin; … - In: International Journal of Business and Development Studies 10 (2018) 1, pp. 5-21

In 2010, the World Bank categorized countries in per capita gross domestic product in terms of purchasing power parity (at constant 1990 prices) in three categories: low, middle (lower and upper) and high income. If a country caught at least 28 years in lower middle income level and at least 14...

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Analysis of economic convergence of Islamic justice in selected Islamic countries

Emamzadeh, Mohammad Reza Alizadeh - In: Journal of Economic Structures 9 (2020) 24, pp. 1-10

Justice is the most important principle in Islam and measures the extent to which decisions in Islamic countries comply …

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A study of the effect of social capital on human development in Islamic countries

Razmi, Mohammad Javad; Salimifar, Mostafa; Bazzazan, … - In: Atlantic Review of Economics 1 (2013)

In view of the fact, social capital in some common definitions offered about it contains a number of social elements that facilitate actions of social actors and from this aspect they are able to improve society's performance. To study this characteristic of social capital and explore its effect...

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Leasing als shariakonformes Finanzierungsinstrument

Farhoush, Azadeh - In: Leasing - Wissenschaft & Praxis 5 (2007) 2, pp. 45-81

beachtet werden, dass diese Erfordernisse bei verschiedenen vom Islam geprägten Ländern differieren können. In diesem …

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The origins of terrorism cross-country estimates on socio-economic determinants of terrorism

Freytag, Andreas; Krüger, Jens J.; Meierrieks, Daniel; … - 2009

To expand our knowledge about an appropriate anti-terror strategy, it is indispensable to assess the underlying causes of terror. We examine social and economic conditions in the country of origin of terrorist attacks, claiming that low opportunity costs of terror, e.g. approximated as slow...

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