Consumers are influenced by the metaphoric relationship between cardinal direction and vertical position (i.e., quot;north is upquot;). People think it will take longer to travel north than south (Study 1), that it will cost more to ship to a northern than to a southern location (Studies 2 and...

In diesem Beitrag werden im Kontext einer Kritik der politischen Ökonomie der Medien die grundsätzlichen Auswirkungen des weltweit herrschenden kapitalistischen Privateigentums an Medienunternehmen auf Medienentwicklung, Journalismus und Öffentlichkeit exemplarisch aufgezeigt....

Pecuniary externalities are crucial in shaping the strategies to value the distinctive competences and the economic success of innovative firms. The analysis of conditions for localized knowledge appropriation and exploitation makes it possible to identify idiosyncratic production factors. The...

"We use the World Bank Investment Climate Surveys data to analyze the employment of both labor and capital in Indian manufacturing. We focus on disparities among states in manufacturing employment patterns, and provide reduced form evidence of their relationship to both (i) institutional...