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The purpose of this research is to study empirically the dynamics of obesity in Finland and provide empirical evidence … of temporal causality between obesity, health expenditure, unemployment, urbanization, alcohol consumption and calorie … intake. The paper employs bounds testing cointegration procedure and augmented causality tests. The empirical results suggest …
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A survey of the information systems for the control, measurement and mitigation of operational risk (OR) was carried … out, with a representative sample of banks of the argentine financial system. The survey was structured in three sections … aspects. With the results of the survey, four groups of financial institutions were distinguished with regard to OR …
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The Median Voter Theorem is an extremely popular result in Political Economy that holds only if the policy space is unidimensional. This assumption restricts its use to a class of very simple problems. In most applications in the literature this implied an oversimplification of the problem...
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must be able to trace and evaluate the causality mechanisms between the transport function and their performance. The …
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involved in lending decisions; namely, consumers, CEOs, and banks. The main characteristic of anxious periods is that the …
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Did financial institutions with better governance arrangements weather the recent financial crisis better? And how about those with more qualified chairmen? We answer these questions in the context of the Spanish Savings and Loans (Cajas). We find that neither formal governance institutions...
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(CAWIs) in 9 cross-border case studies. The results of the SEM analysis positively verified the main hypothesis and provided …
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Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) is considered one of the most economic blocks in Africa, where membership includes nineteen countries, including Egypt since the mid-1998, and aims to increase the prospects for cooperation and increase trade between COMESA countries....
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Support for genetic modification in agriculture mainly stems from approval of food and agricultural goals. It is facilitated by trust in the judgment of scientific authorities and undermined by anxiety about the risks involved. But there are symptoms of danger: Any public opinion data that show...
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Partial least squares-based path modeling with latent variables is a methodology that allows to estimate complex cause-effect relationships using empirical data. The assumption that the data is collected from a single homogeneous population is often unrealistic. Identification of different...
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