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, provided that players' endogenous trust is high enough. The model the signalling theory of religion. Finally, the model enables …
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This paper examines the religion-human capital link, examining a recent household survey for Ghana. Insights from the … Christianity, since Islam, perhaps surprisingly, may be clustered together with Traditional/Animist religion within the group of …, while at the same yielding higher associations in the religion-human capital relations ship. In turn, this indicates that …
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This paper brings together the notion of ‘son preference’ and the complementary concept of ‘daughter aversion’ to provide an explanation for larger Muslim, relative to Hindu, families in India. Just as sons bring ‘benefits’ to their parents, daughters impose ‘costs’ and...
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. We present a stylized Hotelling-style model in which two religious organizations position themselves at opposite … adherents. In order to test our propositions, we present unique primary survey data on the economics of religion that we have … religious and non-religious services, but that there are significant variations by religion. We also provide quantitative …
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stylized Hotelling-style model in which two religious organisations differentiate hemselves on the strength of religious … dataon the economics of religion, collected by us between 2006 and 2010 from 568 Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Sikh and Jain …
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Current methods of disseminating scholarly information focus on the use of journals who retain exclusive rights in the material they publish. Using a simple model we explore the reasons for the development of the traditional journal model, why it is no longer efficient and how it could be...
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The 2007-9 .financial crisis began with increased uncertainty over funding conditions in money markets. We show that funding uncertainty can explain diverse elements of commercial banks behaviour during the crisis, including:(i) reductions in lending volumes, balance sheets, and...
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Gas prices around the world va’y widely despite being connected by international trade of LNG Some industry observers argue hat major exporters g , Qatar) have acted irrationally by failing to engage in price arbitrage. This is also difficult to reconcile with a perfectly competitive model in...
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This paper presents a simple model of risk-averse banks that face uncertainty over funding conditions in the money market. It shows that increased funding uncertainty: (i) creates risk-based loan-deposit synergies, (ii) often causes banks' lending volumes and their profitability to decline,...
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In theory, competitive electricity markets can provide incentives for efficient investment in generating capacity. We show that if consumers and investors are risk averse, investment is efficient only if investors in generating capacity can sign long-term contracts with consumers. Otherwise the...
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