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Defining Rural Smartness and Its Impact: A Systematic Literature Review
The utilisation of information technology to facilitate “smartness” is considered as a promising approach to improve the rural economy. However, the...
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Capital and Wealth
Capital includes both tangible and intangible components, which are also known as “physical” and “human” capital, respectively. In this chapter,...
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Religious Legitimacy and the Joint Evolution of Culture and Institutions
Religious legitimacy is becoming a central concept in historical economics, in comparative studies of the political economy of preindustrial...
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E-Globalization and Digital Economy
The new era of information technologies is referring to the globalization of communication. The quick decrease of the communication costs enhanced...
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Identifying bounded rationality with panel data: evidence from the labor markets of Italy and Germany
In this paper we question the hypothesis of bounded rationality against full rationality in the context of job changing behavior, via simple...
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The legacies of slavery in and out of Africa
The slave trades out of Africa represent one of the most significant forced migration experiences in history. In this paper, I illustrate their...
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Modellentwicklung und Schätzung der Input-Parameter
Die Bewertung langfristiger Einsparpotenziale durch präventive Förderung der körperlich-sportlichen Aktivität im Kindes- und Jugendalter erfolgt auf...
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A Human Capital Based Growth Model with Environment and Corruption
In this paper, we present a simple overlap**-generations model with human capital, pollution, and political corruption to consider problems related...
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Die Koalitionsvereinbarungen zur Energiewende
The new German grand coalition government has put energy and in particular the promotion of renewable energies at the centre of its policies. The...
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The World of Regulatory Influence
Models of firms’ influence over the regulatory agencies that oversee them have traditionally been constrained by several factors, including a lack of...
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Property rights out of anarchy? The Demsetz hypothesis in a game of conflict
The Demsetz hypothesis states that secure claims to property arise when the value of creating those rights is sufficiently high. This paper examines...
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Why has regionalization failed in northern Sweden?
This article examines and discusses how different theoretical perspectives from historical political economy may contribute to the understanding of...
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The export-base model with a supply-side stimulus to the export sector
In the export-base model, the level of a region’s economic activity is underpinned by the performance of its export sector (Daly in Econ J...
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The Types of Economic Resources Transmitted through the Networks of St. Petersburg IT Professionals
This chapter describes what kinds of economically relevant resources are transmitted within the personal networks of St. Petersburg IT managers. The...
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Islam and democracy
Using the POLITY IV and Freedom House indices, Rowley and Smith (Public Choice 139(3–4):273,
2009 ) found that countries with Muslim majorities enjoy... -
The Soviet Legacy and its Transformation in the Russian IT Field
Unlike many other fields of contemporary Russian industry, the IT sector was not built on the relics of Soviet enterprises but on the significant...
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Time horizons matter: the hazard rate of coalition governments and the size of government
This study examines how coalition governments affect the size of government, measured by total central government expenditure as a share of GDP....
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Rivalry and superior dispatch: an analysis of competing courts in medieval and early modern England
In most areas, economists look to competition to align incentives, but not so with courts. Many believe that competition enables plaintiff forum...
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Performance Ranking and Management Efficiency in Colleges of Business: A Study at the Department Level in Taiwanese Universities
Empirical analysis of the efficiency of higher education institutions has commonly involved the use of data envelopment analysis (DEA). Leading...