Interactions between economic development and financial development are studied by looking at the roles of financial … institutions in selecting R&D projects (including for both imitation and innovation). Financial development is regarded as the … development stages of an economy. At higher development stages a financing regime with ex post selection capacity is more …

of political freedoms versus economic development. This paper takes a new approach to provide an answer by using micro …

Interactions between economic development and financial development are studied by looking at the roles of financial … institutions in selecting R&D projects (including for both imitation and innovation). Financial development is regarded as the … development stages of an economy. At higher development stages a financing regime with ex post selection capacity is more …

In spite of the great U-turn that saw income inequality rise in Western countries in the 1980s, happiness inequality … share of both the “very unhappy” and the “perfectly happy”. Lower happiness inequality is found both between and within …

the development accounting literature by describing a nonparametric upper bound on the increase in output that can be … necessary data, compare our results with the standard development accounting approach, and provide an update on the results …

rural branches in Indian states with lower initial financial development. The reverse is true outside this period. We …

bolster political incentives through contributions. Economies with a stronger middle class due to lower inequality or lower …

-based infrastructures on economic development. The results suggest that both mass media and ICT penetra- tion are negatively associated with … countries. The same result is also obtained for the e¤ects of ICT and mass media on economic inequality,. However, ICT reveals … itself inequal- ity increasing for the developing country sample but inequality decreasing for the entire sample. Finally …

This paper employs a decomposition analysis of inequality by income source to understand and explain particular aspects … of income inequality in Greece. The results suggest that entrepreneurial income is the most significant contributor to … overall inequality in Greece. It is also shown that there is a weak redistributive impact of taxes and social security …