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The major macroeconomic changes occurred in the last years at global level represent real challenges for contemporary governments which had to rethink their public policies for getting a real impact on citizens’ behaviour. In this paper, we explore the instruments promoted by social marketing,...
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The volume contains the papers presented during the 9th International Congress of the International Association on Public and Nonprofit Marketing (IAPNM) entitled "Regulation and Best Practices in Public and Nonprofit Marketing", organised by the Faculty of Public Administratiom of National...
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The paper aims to identify the role of Universities in fostering public policies, through the promotion of social responsibility, and the implementation of social marketing initiatives. This innovative approach is particularly interesting since the literature does not cover, until now, the...
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The article focuses on the conditional relationship between various human capital proxies and the size of potential “O-Ring” or “Cobb-Douglas” sectors. We find that that years of schooling are a robust negative predictor of the size of the informal sector, conditioned on national average...
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What Is Results Intelligence and Why Does It Have the Most Influence on Success? The research of human intelligence …, including thefollowing questions: What is the nature of intelligence? Is it a constant innate cognitive traitor is it a skill … that can be improved? Is intelligence a single uniform entity or is it amultiplicity of independent abilities? What is the …
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In this paper we investigate how cognitive ability influences behavior, success and the evolution of play towards Nash equilibrium in repeated strategic interactions. We study behavior in a p-beauty contest experiment and find striking differences according to cognitive ability: more cognitively...
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In this paper, a theory of total factor productivity (TFP) that incorporates a model of intelligence is formulated and … described. In particular, the fluid intelligence of ordinary workers is emphasized as an important element in TFP because such … workers have the intelligence to innovate, even though their innovations are minor. Nevertheless, these innovations are …
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This paper uses a unique dataset to investigate the effect of the cognitive ability of leading politicians on state capacity. Given the evidence that cognitive ability of leading politicians’ affects state capacity positively, except Africa. For the continent, this relationship between state...
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This paper empirically assesses the influence of intelligence on a shadow economy, using data from 158 countries, over … the period 1999-2007. The results provide strong evidence for the claim that intelligence is negatively associated with an ….5 percentage point reduction in a shadow economy relative to GDP. The negative effect of intelligence remains intact when …
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This paper extends the growing literature on knowledge economy by investigating the effect of intelligence on economic …
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