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orient the global economy toward the common good, coherent with the values of the world’s major religious traditions. These …, today's global economy is synonymous with vast amounts of exclusion, indignity, and environmental devastation. To succeed … the recently-formed Ethics in Action initiative, the authors therefore propose a sequence of measures designed to better …
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The importance of replicating economic research to improve the validity of findings has been the topic of an ongoing discussion, but there is not a consensus of what that means in practice. This article discusses a rationale for replicating a study and offers a plan of how one might go about...
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Regressions and tests performed on data from Transparency International Global Corruption Barometer 2004 survey show … that personal or household experience of bribery is not a good predictor of perceptions held about corruption among the … general population. In contrast, perceptions about the effects of corruption correlate consistently among themselves. However …
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The paper discusses the impact of corruption on the probability of violent conflict events and traces the shifts in the … little interaction between empirical corruption research and the empirical research into civil wars. When the two strands of …
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integration of civil society into global governance. In the spirit of Ostrom's poly-centric governance, they propose stronger … interaction between public international authorities, including the G20, and civil society. The second is the reliance of economic … process involving responsible leaders, decision-makers, experts, and civil society. …
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review the reasons behind the shrinking space civil society encounters in some parts of the world and its steady development …The roles of non-governmental or civil society organizations have become more complex, especially in the context of … changing relationships with nation states and the international community. In many instances, state-civil society relations …
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Corruption has fierce impacts on economic and societal development and is subject to a vast range of institutional …, jurisdictional, societal and economic conditions. Research indicates that corruption's predominantly negative effects have arisen to … impairing everybody's life. This paper provides a comprehensive state-of-the-art survey of existing literature on corruption and …
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This paper compares the depth of the Recent Crisis and the Great Depression. We use a new data set to compare the drop in activity in the industrialized countries for seven activity indicators. This is done under the assumption that the Recent Crisis leveled off in mid-2009 for production and...
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The authors examine the relation between price returns and volatility changes in the Bitcoin market using a daily database denominated in various currencies. The results for the entire period provide no evidence of an asymmetric return-volatility relation in the Bitcoin market. They test if...
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This paper explores the role of speculation and economy fundamentals in the oil market using a two-component GARCH …
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