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Economic utopia of the Torah. Economic concepts of the Hebrew Bible interpreted according to the Rabbinical Literature

Mangeloja, Esa - EconWPA - 2004

, labor market, social policy, banking, years of Sabbath and Jubilee, and business cycles. Most economic issues of the Bible …

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Does It Pay To Pray? Evaluating the Economic Return to Religious Ritual

Ruffle, Bradley J.; Sosis, Richard H. - EconWPA - 2003

that religious males (the primary practitioners of collective religious ritual in Orthodox Judaism) are more cooperative …

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Cooperation and the In-Group-Out-Group Bias: A Field Test on Israeli Kibbutz Members and City Residents

Ruffle, Bradley J.; Sosis, Richard H. - EconWPA - 2003

societies, the Israeli kibbutz. The facts that kibbutz members have voluntarily chosen their lifestyle of cooperation and … if ever there was a society of individuals whose cooperativeness extends equally to members and non-members, the kibbutz … is it. Nonetheless, the findings from our field experiments indicate that kibbutz members display higher levels of …

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New Labor Legislation in Montenegro – Labor Law and Proposal of the General Collective Agreement

Krsmanovic, Ana - EconWPA - 2004

A key area of focus in the economic reform process and the design of a favorable business environment is labor market legislation. Montenegro has obviously failed in this area. After nearly 13 years since the beginning of the transition process, or five years since the beginning of Economic...

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Environmental agreements as an alternative environmental policy mechanism

Márquez-Escobar, Pablo - EconWPA - 2004

author exposes the political philosophy of freedom as a foundation for the environmental protection policy. Later on, he …

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What do gifts buy? A model of philanthropy and tithing based on prestige and warm glow.

Harbaugh, William T. - EconWPA - 1996

Charities publicize the donations they receive, generally according to dollar categories rather than the exact amount. Donors in turn tend to give the minimum amount necessary to get into a category. These facts suggest that donors have a taste for having their donations made public. This paper...

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THE ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST

Feige, Edgar L. - EconWPA - 2005

Reference: Challenge, January/February, 1979

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Monitoring Banking Sector Fragility

Kibritcioglu, Aykut - EconWPA - 2002

In the financial crisis literature, it is usually argued that, contrary to the case of currency crises, building a time series index to identify banking crisis episodes is highly difficult, particularly because of the lack of reliable data on banking sector variables (non-performing loans,...

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THE ROLE OF DEVELOPMENT AGENCIES FOR THE ENTREPRENEURIAL

Giuseppe, Pace - EconWPA - 2003

National and local “economic development programs” – programs that provide assistance to individual businesses with tax or financial subsidies, or special public services, in order to increase local jobs or improve local businesses’ competitiveness – have become prominent and...

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