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Knowledge-based economic development: mass media and the weightless economy

Bandyopadhyay, Sanghamitra - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

This paper examines the impact of mass media and information and commu- nications technologies (ICT) as knowledge-based infrastructures on economic development. The results suggest that both mass media and ICT penetra- tion are negatively associated with corruption. This result holds across both...

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Preference reversals and the analysis of income distributions

Amiel, Yoram; Cowell, Frank; Davidovitz, Leima; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

It is known from the literature on uncertainty that in cases where individuals express a preference for a high win-probability bet over a bet with high winnings they nevertheless will bid more to obtain the bet with high winnings. We investigate whether a similar phenomenon applies in the...

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Silli, Bernhard; Cohen, Randolph B; Polk, Christopher - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

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Stock prices under pressure: how tax and interest rates drive returns at the turn of the tax year

Kang, Johnny; Pekkala, Tapio; Polk, Christopher; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

We show that the level of interest rates determines the magnitude of mispricing at the turn of the tax year, as investors face the trade-o¤ between selling a temporarily depressed stock this year and selling next year, but delaying tax implications by one year. Interest rates do explain the...

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Choices in egalitarian distribution: inequality aversion versus risk aversion

Kroll, Yoram; Davidovitz, Leima - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1999

alternative with constant risk level implies a higher level of inequality aversion. The experiment was conducted among 211 eight …Inequality aversion and risk aversion are widely assumed features of economic models. But a review of the literature … revealed that inequlity aversion and risk aversion are treated as separate variables. This paper presents exploratory research …

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Does the use of social networking sites increase children’s risk of harm?

Staksrud, Elisabeth; Ólafsson, Kjartan; Livingstone, Sonia - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

experiences of online risk among children, the affordances of SNS lend support to this possibility, attracting much policy and … second hypothesis stated that SNS users with more digital competence will encounter more online risk than those with less …) will encounter more online risk than those with fewer risky practices: this too was supported by the data; thus what …

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Risky social networking practices among ‘under-age’ users: lessons for evidence-based policy

Livingstone, Sonia; Ólafsson, Kjartan; Staksrud, Elisabeth - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

European self-regulation to ensure children's safety on social networking sites requires that providers ensure children are old enough to use the sites, aware of safety messages, empowered by privacy settings, discouraged from disclosing personal information, and supported by easy to use...

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