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Building Genuine Islamic Financial Institutions
Zaman, Asad - Pakistan Institute of Development Economics - 2014
Since the spirit of Islam is in stark and violent conflict with the spirit of Capitalism, the form taken by institutions designed to express this spirit must also be different. Capitalist financial institutions are designed to support the process of accumulation of wealth, which is at the heart...
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Capturing Willingness to Pay and Its Determinants for Improved Solid Waste Management
Mustafa, Usman; Ahmad, Iftikhar; Haq, Miraj ul - Pakistan Institute of Development Economics - 2014
including Pakistan. Large masses living in this world particularly South Asian country (that is home to over one fifth of the … world’s population) is still striving for it. Pakistan, being a developing country, is no exclusion to that state. The … questionnaire from both rural and urban regions of district Abbottabad, Pakistan at HHs premises. The objective was to discover the …
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Is the Welfare State Sustainable? Experimental Evidence on Citizens’ Preferences for Redistribution
Neustadt, Ilja; Zweifel, Peter - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2010
elicited through a Discrete Choice Experiment performed in 2008 in Switzerland. Attributes are redistribution as GDP share, its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008541377
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'Home Biases', 19th Century Style
Flandreau, Marc - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
This paper discusses the existence of 'home' biases in the 19th century global capital market, whereby colonies appear to have received a 'disproportionate' amount of capital from their metropolis. Starting from a discussion of the Bulow Rogoff (1989) problem, we argue that imperial links...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123494
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Economic Well-Being, Social Mobility, and Preferences for Income Redistribution: Evidence from a Discrete Choice Experiment
Neustadt, Ilja; Zweifel, Peter - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2009
In this paper, preferences for income redistribution in Switzerland are elicited through a Discrete Choice Experiment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005061522
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Preferences for Health Insurance in Germany and the Netherlands – A Tale of Two Countries
Zweifel, Peter; Leukert, Karolin; Berner, Stephanie - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2010
This contribution contains an international comparison of preferences. Using two Discrete Choice Experiments (DCE), it measures willingness to pay for health insurance attributes in Germany and the Netherlands. Since the Dutch DCE was carried out right after the 2006 health reform, which made...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008583488
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Do Religious Beliefs Explain Preferences for Income Redistribution? Experimental Evidence
Neustadt, Ilja - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2010
Discrete Choice Experiment performed in 2008 in Switzerland and relate them to several behavioral determinants, in particular …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008678246
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Household Willingness to Pay for Organic Products
Griffith, Rachel; Nesheim, Lars - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
We use hedonic prices and purchase quantities to consider what can be learned about household willingness to pay for baskets of organic products and how this varies across households. We use rich scanner data on food purchases by a large number of households to compute household specific lower...
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Spatial Effects in Willingness-to-Pay: The Case of Two Nuclear Risks
Schneider, Yves; Zweifel, Peter - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2005
with data collected using a stated choice experiment. The predictions are largely confirmed by the evidence. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005819674
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Sovereign debt, government myopia, and the financial sector
Acharya, Viral V; Rajan, Raghuram G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
What determines the sustainability of sovereign debt? In this paper, we develop a model where myopic governments seek electoral popularity but can nevertheless commit credibly to service external debt. They do not default when they are poor because they would lose access to debt markets and be...
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