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The Arm’s Length Principle, Transfer Pricing and Foreclosure under Imperfect Competition
Cheng, Wenli; Zhang, Dingsheng - Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, … - 2010
Abstract: This paper studies a multinational firm’s transfer price decisions in imperfectly competitive market settings. It investigates whether the firm’s optimal transfer price coincides with the arm’s length price and examines how the firm might respond if it is compelled...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008492306
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Crime, Corruption and Institutions
Chatterjee, Ishita; Ray, Ranjan - Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, … - 2009
This paper explores the link between crime and corruption, compares their magnitudes, determinants and their effects on growth rates. The study uses a large cross country data set containing individual responses to questions on crime and corruption along with information on the respondents’...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005064172
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Happiness Is Absolute, Universal, Ultimate, Unidimensional, Cardinally Measurable and Interpersonally Comparable: A Basis for the Environmentally Responsible Happy Nation Index
Ng, Yew-Kwang - Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, … - 2011
needed. As an ultimate indicator, it has to be happiness-based. This paper argues that happiness is absolute, universal … largely non-comparable. The happy nation index takes both the average net happiness and average lifespan into account. Since …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009144411
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Sex and Happiness
Smyth, Russell; Cheng, Zhiming - Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, … - 2014
We examine the relationship between sexual activities and happiness using a sample of 3800 adults from China. We … establish some firm results about the contribution of sexual activities and relationships to happiness for an important country … that the happiness maximizing number of sexual partners is one. We also identify important gender differences between men …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011100033