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Service Sector Development and its Determinants in Rwanda
Uwitonze, Eric; Heshmati, Almas - 2016
The service sector is an avenue for economic transformation as not all countries have a competitive edge in manufacturing. The growing literature on service sector primarily focuses on its development in the US and Europe and on Asian emerging service economies like India. Not as much attention...
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The Coming Wave: Where Do Emerging Market Investors Put Their Money?
Karolyi, G. Andrew; Ng, David T.; Prasad, Eswar - 2015
We examine how emerging market (EM) investors allocate their stock portfolios internationally. Using both country-level and institution-level data, we find that the coming wave of EM investors systematically over- and under-weight their holdings in some target countries. These abnormal foreign...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401678
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Further from the Truth: The Impact of In-Person, Online, and mTurk on Dishonest Behavior
Dickinson, David L.; McEvoy, David M. - 2020
greatest risk of potentially costly dishonest behavior results when anonymity, not just social distance, is high. …
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Keep It Simple: A Field Experiment on Information Sharing among Strangers
Batista, Catia; Fafchamps, Marcel; Vicente, Pedro C. - 2021
SMS information campaigns are increasingly used for policy. We conduct a field experiment to study information sharing through mobile phone messages. Subjects are rural households in Mozambique who have access to mobile money. In the baseline intervention, subjects receive an SMS containing...
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Anonymity, Efficiency Wages and Technological Progress
Broadberry, Stephen; Ghosal, Sayantan; Proto, Eugenio - 2015
onset of the Industrial Revolution. We finally calibrate the model to quantify the impact of a higher degree of anonymity on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010481685
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Big experimenter is watching you!: Anonymity and prosocial behavior in the laboratory
Barmettler, Franziska; Fehr, Ernst; Zehnder, Christian - 2011
anonymity between experimenter and subject. It has been argued that this lack of experimenter-subject anonymity may create … across studies make it difficult to isolate the impact of experimenter-subject anonymity on prosocial behavior. In this paper … we use a novel procedure that allows us to examine the impact of the exact same ceteris-paribus variation in anonymity on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280719
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Big Experimenter Is Watching You! Anonymity and Prosocial Behavior in the Laboratory
Barmettler, Franziska; Fehr, Ernst; Zehnder, Christian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
anonymity between experimenter and subject. It has been argued that this lack of experimenter-subject anonymity may create … across studies make it difficult to isolate the impact of experimenter-subject anonymity on prosocial behavior. In this paper … we use a novel procedure that allows us to examine the impact of the exact same ceteris-paribus variation in anonymity on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009283588
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Anonymity, Efficiency Wages and Technological Progress
Broadberry, Stephen; Ghosal, Sayantan; Proto, Eugenio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
onset of the Industrial Revolution. We finally calibrate the model to quantify the impact of a higher degree of anonymity on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011143947
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Bringing financial literacy and education to low and middle income countries: The need to review, adjust, and extend current wisdom
Holzmann, Robert - 2010
This paper presents a World Bank led and Russia trust fund financed work program to measure financial capability and the effectiveness of financial education in low and middle income countries. The two activities and their staging have been motivated by the lessons of high-income countries with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333011
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Bringing Financial Literacy and Education to Low and Middle Income Countries: The Need to Review, Adjust, and Extend Current Wisdom
Holzmann, Robert - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
This paper presents a World Bank led and Russia trust fund financed work program to measure financial capability and the effectiveness of financial education in low and middle income countries. The two activities and their staging have been motivated by the lessons of high-income countries with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008466447