A paper by social psychologists proclaimed that, for UK citizens, it could be shown that being born in the summer half-year was associated with a significantly higher belief in being lucky, compared with being born in the winter half-year. Are we that much determined by nonsocial forces? A test...

Whereas the preferences of consumers are a cornerstone of market economies, the preferences of employees, e.g., regarding the preferred amount of paid labour, usually are not. However, we have strong evidence that differences between aspired and actually worked weekly hours have a serious...

The paper investigates the casual relationship between government expenditure, GDP and exports for Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka for the period between 1960 and 2010. Using cointegration and Granger causality, the results suggest that there exists...