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What drives the Quotes of Earnings Forecasters?

de Bruijn, Bert; Franses, Philip Hans - 2012

Earnings forecasts can be useful for investment decisions. Research on earnings forecasts has focused on forecast … determine the value of the forecast and also investigate to what extent the timing of the forecast can be modeled. We propose a … clear drivers of the value and the timing of the earnings forecast. We thus show that not only the forecasts themselves are …

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Impact of Taqwa (Islamic piety) on employee happiness: A study of Pakistan's banking sector

Maham, Raj; Bhatti, Omar Khalid - In: Cogent Business & Management 6 (2019), pp. 1-22

The concept of "employee happiness" has received much research attention within the framework of Western values, but the equivalent concept has not been explored in the context of other cultures and religions, such as the Islamic context of Pakistan's banking sector. This study examines the...

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On the relevance of psychological motives, values, and norms for socially responsible investments: An econometric analysis

Gutsche, Gunnar; Köbrich-León, Anja; Ziegler, Andreas - 2016

Based on unique data from a representative computer-based survey among financial decision makers in Germany, this paper empirically examines the determinants of socially responsible investments (SRI). Our econometric analysis implies that the perceived financial performance of SRI matters for...

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Asabiyya: re-interpreting value change in globalized societies

Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas - 2009

This article reflects the renewed interest of economics and the social science discipline in value systems and religion …. The World Values Survey provided a data framework of global value change, whose quantitative results led Barro (2004) to … is whether modernization without spiritual values in a globalized world economy and world society possible in the long …

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Immigrant Religious Adjustment: An Economic Approach to Jewish Migrations

Chiswick, Carmel Ullman - 2003

An economic theory of immigration and immigrant absorption for a religious minority is developed and applied to Jewish history. Human capital is classified according to whether it is allocative or productive, transferable or location-specific, general or Jewish. Crossclassifying these categories...

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The evolution of secularization: Cultural transmission, religion and fertility theory, simulations and evidence

Bar-El, Ronen; García-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana; … - 2010

empirical estimation that employs data from 32 countries (included in the International Social Survey Program: Religion II …

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Does Religiosity Promote Property Rights and the Rule of Law?

Berggren, Niclas; Bjørnskov, Christian - 2012

. We introduce religiosity, measured as the share for which religion is important in daily life, to explain institutional …

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The religious transition: a long-run perspective

Paldam, Martin; Gundlach, Erich - 2009

We use factor analysis to derive a robust measure of religiosity from items reported in five waves of the World Value … to fall to about half its pre-modern level. Most components of the demand for religion are reduced by development. The … supply of religion declines once churches lose control over the institutions providing collective goods like education …

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Unravelling secularization: an international study

Brañas-Garza, Pablo; García-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, … - 2007

The current study examines individuals who were raised in a certain religion and at some stage of their life left it …. Currently, they define their religious affiliation as 'no religion'. A battery of explanatory variables (country-specific ones … tendency of individuals to leave their religion is strongly correlated with the degree of strictness of their country and with …

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Religiosity as a determinant of happiness

Gundlach, Erich; Opfinger, Matthias - 2011

We find a U-shaped relation between happiness and religiosity in cross-country panel data after controlling for income levels. At a given level of income, the same level of happiness can be reached with high and low levels of religiosity, but not with intermediate levels. A rise in income causes...

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