Russia in comparative light as well as the factors associated with differences in educational outcomes in Russia. Despite the … looking at within-country variation in Russia. We find – both in the cross-country estimates as also those using just Russia …

This paper analyses how governance or institutional quality and tax morale affect the shadow economy, using an … factors to understand the level and changes of shadow economy. However, the limited number of investigations use cross … support that its increase leads to a smaller shadow economy. Moreover, an increase in tax morale reduces the size of the …

This paper analyses how tax morale and countries' institutional quality affect the shadow economy, controlling in a … factors to understand the size and development of the shadow economy. Relatively new data sources that have become available … support for the assertion that a higher tax morale and a higher institutional quality lead to a smaller shadow economy …

effort is therefore in the interest of all economies willing to be part of a globalised economy …

only in higher income nations but also in countries that account for most of the population of the less-developed world …. These conclusions are suggested by an analysis of a wide range of evidence on happiness in countries throughout the world …

US to the worst recession the world has witnessed for over six decades. Through an in-depth review of the crisis in terms …-held perceptions during the boom years before the crisis, the paper underscores that the global economy was by no means as stable as … suggested, while at the same time the majority of the world's poor had benefited insufficiently from stronger economic growth …

for dual class stock firms using the voting premium approach. Our empirical analysis is based on data from Russia and …

played in political-economy outcomes and in the "long divergence" between the Middle East and Western Europe. Finally, cross …-country analyses seek to understand the broader determinants of religious practice and its various effects across the world. We …