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TRUST OF MODERNITY, MODERNITY OF TRUST. CONSIDERATIONS AND RESEARCH HYPOTHESIS

CONTE, MASSIMO - EconWPA - 2005

THE DEVELOPMENT SOCIAL RELATIONSHIP IN OUR TIMES IMPOSE A GROWING IMPORTANCE TO 'TRUST' AS A RESOURCE BETWEEN PERSONAL … REDUCING OF SOCIAL COMPLEXITY IN OUR NEAPOLITAN REALITY, WE ASSUME THAT IS BETTER TO 'RELIANCE' RATHER THAN TO TRUST. FOR THE …

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Are Happy People Ethical People? Evidence from North America and Europe

Harvey S. James Jr. - EconWPA - 2003

This paper contributes to the growing literature on happiness research by examining whether happiness affects the ethical decisions of individuals. First, a recursive model of ethical decision making is developed in which an agent's utility is assumed to be a function of money, ethical...

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Consumers’ and Professionals’ Responses to Situations Raising Ethical Questions

Sirieix, Lucie; Gurviez, P.; Rohrig, C. - EconWPA - 2005

’ expectations with regard to ethics are little understood by professionals. This study leads to a better understanding of the …

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Corruption, Governance and Security: Challenges for the Rich Countries and the World

Kaufmann, Daniel - EconWPA - 2004

undue influence. We construct a new set of ethics indices, encompassing forms of (legal) corruption not subject to …

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"Civil Economy and Civilized Economics: Essentials for Sustainable Development"

Goodwin, Neva; 2001, January - EconWPA - 2001

principles. In particular, the concept of sustainability, carrying with it clear requirements for values, goals and ethics, has …

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Does Ethics Training Neutralize the Incentives of the Prisoner's Dilemma? Evidence from a Classroom Experiment

Harvey S. James Jr.; Cohen, Jeffrey - EconWPA - 2002

Teaching economics has been shown to encourage students to defect in a prisoner's dilemma game. However, can ethics … students who had the ethics module had higher rates of cooperation than students without the ethics module, even after … controlling for communication and other factors expected to affect cooperation. We conclude that the teaching of ethics can …

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How Ownership Structure Affects Capital Structure and Firm Performance? Recent Evidence from East Asia

Driffield, Nigel; Mahambare, Vidya; Pal, Sarmistha - EconWPA - 2005

Despite the seminal work of Claessens et al. (2002), who highlighted the role of ownership structure on firm performance in East Asia, the relationship between capital structure and ownership remains much unexplored. This is important, given recent empirical and theoretical work linking capital...

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How Ownership Structure Affects Capital Structure and Firm Performance? Recent Evidence from East Asia

Driffield, Nigel; Mahambare, Vidya; Pal, Sarmistha - EconWPA - 2005

Despite the seminal work of Claessens et al. (2002), role of ownership structure on capital structure and firm performance in East Asian corporattions remains much unexplored. Within the framework of Bajaj et al. (1998), the present paper empirically examines the effects of a controlling manager...

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Ownership Concentration and Restructuring in Czech Manufacturing Sector

Vychodil, Ondrej - EconWPA - 2005

The paper examines the dependence of firm restructuring on private outside ownership concentration in Czech manufacturing sector after privatization. It starts with the argumentation that the most important actors in the post-privatization ownership structure in the Czech Republic were...

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How Independent are Independent Directors? The Case of Italy

Santella, Paolo; Paone, Giulia; Drago, Carlo - EconWPA - 2005

In this article, we provide an interpretation for the voluntary independence requirements contained in the Italian Corporate Governance Code (Preda Code) checking them against a proxy for international best practice, the independence criteria provided in the EC Recommendation on non-executive...

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