This paper examines the evolution of wealth distribution in France during the urbanization process of the nineteenth … century, based on a comprehensive dataset of individual inheritances. It presents a spatial decomposition between rural and … urban areas, distinguishing Paris from the rest of other cities. Two types of decomposition are compared: a decomposition …

incidence of corruption is another distinctive feature of SSA. According to the last Transparency International Corruption … Perception Index almost 70% of SSA countries ranked register score below 3, indicating that corruption is perceived as rampant …. However, to the best of our knowledge the corruption and informality nexus has never been explored in comprehensive empirical …

The purpose of this research was to examine student perceptions of academic integrity among faculty and peers at a … sample of public universities in Romania. The study explores the factors that influence academic dishonesty among college … students and compares the relative importance of faculty influences and peer influences on students’ intent to cheat. The study …

The economic performances of oil exporting countries reveal a counter intuitive phenomenon: natural wealth is a limit … for growth opportunities. Development experiences of many oil exporting countries prove that the possession of natural … resources is often transformed into a curse. The literature on the oil curse is abundant, especially after the oil shocks of the …

(while others do not) in order to shed light on the origins of informality. We use qualitative as well as quantitative data …. The study reveals that although most of the informal businesses operate ‘illegally’, this is more due to unclear … registration legislation than the mark of a deliberate intention to evade the economic regulations.Among the different factors …

Several similarities explain the spread of the Arab revolutionary process : the polarization of economies to limited … sectors, a rentier-based management of resources, very low employment rates and extremely high rates of skilled migration …

shows that the two traditional visions of the consequences of corruption on trade coexist. …The purpose of this paper is to assess the effect on North South trade of the quality of governance in developing … countries by applying a gravity trade model. I test the model for a sample of 21 OECD countries and 95 developing countries over …