disasters, terrorism, and violent conflicts – on the perceptions of entrepreneurs concerning some key entrepreneurial issues … extreme events is likely to be exogenous to the perceptions affecting it so that we can identify a causal link from events to … entrepreneurs and their perceptions. Using individual-level data from 43 countries from the period 2002 to 2005, we find that …

We use data from the 2006 round of the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) to describe perceptions of the … corruption in order to reduce these externalities. We also find that individual perceptions of social capital and corruption co …

perceptions are crucial for the actions of economic agents this distinction matters. A discrepancy between actual and perceived … perceptions. We investigate the mismatch between actual and perceived transparency and its relevance by analyzing data of a Dutch … household survey on the European Central Bank’s transparency. To benefit from higher transparency perceptions the European …

this observation imply that targeting transfers to women is good economic policy? We develop a series of noncooperative … assess the policy implications of these models. We find that targeting transfers to women can have unintended consequences … and may fail to make children better off. Moreover, different forms of empowering women may lead to opposite results. More …

Women’s empowerment and economic development are closely related: in one direction, development alone can play a major … role in driving down inequality between men and women; in the other direction, empowering women may benefit development … equality between men and women. …

together the following results: merging parties' profits fall but consumer surplus is unchanged, Stackelberg leadership raises …

leadership naturally arise as a response to organizational trade-offs between coordination and adaptation. At the optimum, all … the expense of all others. Our results shed light on the importance of leadership, strategy and “core competences,” as …

-time jobs contributes to women's lower pay separately from gender differences in human capital attributes. … 1980 Women in Employment Survey) finds significant sample selection bias for women in full-time jobs. Part of the observed … differential between the hourly pay of full-timers and part-timers arises because of self-selection of women who can command higher …

The provision of subsidized child care may encourage women to participate in the paid labor force. This paper analyzes … the provision of high quality public day care in Sweden encourages the labor market activity of women with preschoolers …