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We estimate a measure of well-being efficiency that assesses countries' ability to transform inputs into subjective … of choice, absence of corruption, and generosity) identified in the World Happiness Reports and apply Data Envelopment … Analysis to a sample of 126 countries. Efficiency scores reveal that high ranking subjective well-being countries, such as the …
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We provide the first econometric study of efficiency for a member of the Mondragon group of worker cooperatives. Eroski … managed firm ; productive efficiency ; Mondragon ; shared capitalism …
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Despite the increasing importance of remittances in total international capital flows, the relationship between remittances and growth has not been adequately studied. This paper studies one of the links between remittances and growth, in particular how local financial sector development...
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This paper examines the relationship between financial development, CO2 emissions, trade and economic growth using simultaneous-equation panel data models for a panel of 12 MENA countries over the period 1990-2011. Our results indicate that there is evidence of bidirectional causality between...
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The financial industry has been struggling with widespread misconduct and public mistrust. Here we argue that the lack of trust into the financial industry may stem from the selection of subjects with little, if any, trustworthiness into the financial industry. We identify the social preferences...
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current resources (i.e. income, education and health) into subjective well-being. Our results imply that well-being efficiency … efficiency, while good institutions as proxied by the rule of law, as well as social support and freedom perceptions improve it … international well-being rankings - demonstrate that efficiency is lower among the unemployed, divorced/separated, widowed, the old …
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there is a tradeoff as to efficiency and inequality with respect to services that are contracted to private companies in a …
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experiment whether gossip affects the efficiency of human interactions. We let subjects play a trust game. Third parties observe … possibility of gossip is highly efficiency-increasing compared to a situation without any gossip. In two further control … treatments, we show that the mere fact of being observed by third parties cannot explain the efficiency-increasing effect of …
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