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Happiness and Financial Satisfaction in Israel. Effects of Religiosity , Ethnicity, and War
Praag, Bernard M.S. van; Romanov, Dmitri; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010
This discussion paper led to a publication in <A href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167487010000954">'Journal of Economic Psychology'</A>, 31(6), 1008-20.<P>We analyze individual satisfaction with life as a whole and satisfaction with the personal financial situation for Israeli citizens of Jewish and Arab descent. Our data set is the Israeli Social Survey...</p></a>
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Will Islamic Banking make the World less risky? An Empirical Analysis of Capital Structure, Risk Shifting and Financial Stability
Farooq, Moazzam; Wijnbergen, Sweder van; Zaheer, Sajjad - Tinbergen Instituut - 2015
We use a classic Merton credit risk framework to argue that Islamic Banking Institutions (IBIs) face less incentive to take on risks than Conventional Banking Institutions (CBI). IBIs have less incentive for risk shifting both in and outside of distress situations. We test and confirm this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011272595
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Will Islamic Banking make the World less risky? An Empirical Analysis of Capital Structure, Risk Shifting and Financial Stability
Farooq, Moazzam; Wijnbergen, Sweder van; Zaheer, Sajjad - Tinbergen Instituut - 2015
We use a classic Merton credit risk framework to argue that Islamic Banking Institutions (IBIs) face less incentive to take on risks than Conventional Banking Institutions (CBI). IBIs have less incentive for risk shifting both in and outside of distress situations. We test and confirm this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011275100
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Religion and Income
Bettendorf, L.; Dijkgraaf, E. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008
See also the article 'Religion and income: heterogeneity between countries' in the <I>Journal of Economic Behavior and … respect to the influence of religion on income. The violation of the homogeneity assumption would have two consequences. First … countries. We estimate simultaneously an income and a religion equation to correct for the endogeneity of religiosity. We find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256294
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The Bicausal Relation between Religion and Income
Bettendorf, Leon; Dijkgraaf, Elbert - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005
In this paper the relation between religion and income is investigated using a micro-dataset for the Netherlands …. Religiosity is measured by religious membership and by participation. Instead of estimating separately a religion and an income … approach, both religious measures are found to decrease significantly income and income is found to affect negatively religion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257256
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The Degradation of Distorted Performance Measures
Sloof, Randolph; Praag, Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008
Baker (2002) has demonstrated theoretically that the quality of performance measures used in compensation contracts hinges on two characteristics: noise and distortion. These criteria, though, will only be useful in practice as long as the noise and distortion of a performance measure can be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256322
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Testing for Distortions in Performance Measures: An Application to Residual Income Based Measures like Economic Value Added
Sloof, Randolph; Praag, Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014
This discussion paper resulted in a publication in the 'Journal of Economics and Management Strategy', forthcoming.<P> Distorted performance measures in compensation contracts elicit suboptimal behavioral responses that may even prove to be dysfunctional (gaming). This paper applies the empirical...</p>
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