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THE ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF A WEAK JUDICIARY: INSIGHTS FROM INDIA
Koehling, Wolfgang - EconWPA - 2002
This paper examines the empirical relationship between the quality of the Indian judiciary and the economic development of the Indian States and Union Territories. It evaluates this causality by analysing the development of the state-level per capita income and poverty rates. I define the...
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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 RELATIONSHIP AS BETWEEN PERSONS AND COMPLEX SOCIAL SYSTEM. THE MAIN FEATURE OF MODERNITY IN SOCIAL CONNECTIONS IS GIVEN BY THE SPREAD OF A 'TIME/SPACE' DISTANCE. THE INCREASING...
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Multi-attribute Analysis of Confidence, Convenience and Price Functions of Customers of Financial Services Firms: a GLS Systems Model
Rao, Ananth - EconWPA - 2005
The purpose of the study is to examine significant attributes of customers for explaining the level of confidence … the satisfaction and confidence of customers across FSFs. Results indicate that: core, tangible and relational attributes …’ confidence and convenience functions had a reliability of 92 to 94 percent while the value function had a reliability of 74 …
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Exploring the Social and Economic Costs of Abuse in Later lIfe
Spencer, Charmaine - EconWPA - 2000
Abstract : Abuse and neglect of older adults (« elder abuse ») has a significant impact on the lives of the individuals involved. At the same time, it has a broader social and economic cost. Many of these are « hidden costs » in the sense that the cause of the underlying problem is not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005126055
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Rational Legal Decision-Making, Value Judgment and Efficient Precaution in Tort law
ZHENG, MINGLI; ANWAR, SAJID - EconWPA - 2005
By reinterpreting Savage axioms as axioms of the social rationality over resource allocations, we derive a social welfare function encompassing individual social values and a social attitude towards distributional inequality. Wealth maximization becomes the purpose of law only if individuals...
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Some Ethical Issues in Trade Policy: Management Ethics versus the Law
McGee, Robert W. - EconWPA - 1998
There are a number of ethical issues in the area of international trade that affect managers. This article will address two ethical issues that have been almost totally neglected in the literature -- antidumping and sanctions. Antidumping laws are special interest legislation. Rather than...
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Governance Matters III: Governance Indicators for 1996-2002
Kaufmann, Daniel; Kraay, Aart; Mastruzzi, Massimo - EconWPA - 2003
This paper presents estimates of six dimensions of governance covering 199 countries and territories for four time periods: 1996, 1998, 2000, and 2002. These indicators are based on several hundred individual variables measuring perceptions of governance, drawn from 25 separate data sources...
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Rethinking Governance: Empirical Lessons Challenge Orthodoxy
Kaufmann, Daniel - EconWPA - 2003
In this discussion draft, linking research findings with concrete operational challenges, we review key issues in worldwide governance, and present recent empirical evidence. Focusing on defining and unbundling key governance components, such as rule of law, voice and accountability, corruption...
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The Inequality of Influence
Hellman, Joel; Kaufmann, Daniel - EconWPA - 2003
This paper develops a proxy measure of the inequality of influence on the basis of survey evidence from 2002 Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS) conducted among 6,500 firms in 27 transition countries. We refer to the resulting inequality as crony bias in the political...
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Far From Home: Do Foreign Investors Import Higher Standards of Governance in Transition Economies?
Hellman, Joel S.; Jones, Geraint; Kaufmann, Daniel - EconWPA - 2003
Based on the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS) of firms in transition countries, which unbundles corruption to measure different types of corrupt transactions and provide detailed information on the characteristics and performance of firms, we find that: i)...
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