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Bitcoin is a digital cryptocurrency that has attracted substantial interest in recent years from the general people, profit seekers, risk takers, academic practitioners and last but not the least, from economists. Most recently, particularly, after 2015, it has succeeded to gain even more...
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areas in India where the growing period is later and where the minimum temperature during the production period is … than most other states in India. Given such comparative advantage, it seems that the state could benefit from the increased … active in India are bringing in potato varieties (e.g. Lady Roseta, Atlantic) which might be prone to diseases that might be …
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The advent of electronic banking offers banking firms a new frontier of opportunities and challenges. This study investigates how social factors, awareness, consumer perceptions and attitudes towards electronic banking influence the adoption of electronic banking in Zimbabwe. In Zimbabwe little...
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The two decades of post reform period in India witnessed transformation of the economy in to a higher growth plane … growth in India. The rationale for inclusive financial system, taking banking services to the vulnerable sections, role of …
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This article looks in more depth at the different ways in which ideas about cashless societies were articulated and …. Ultimately, what it shows is that although the desire to dispense with cash and find a more efficient and less … hugely challenging. This paper was written for the Cashless Society Project, an interdisciplinary and international effort to …
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Abstract Failure in Higher Education (HE) is the outcome of multiple time-dependent determinants. Interruptions in student’s individual school trajectories are one of them and that’s why research on this topic has been attracting much attention these days. From an individual point of view,...
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As could be expected, the global financial crisis is on everybody’s mind and causing a lot of worries. The current crisis has reached the consumers globally and intensified conversations about consumer protection. It has threatened their wealth as people have lost their assets, savings and...
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A long tradition in economics explores the association between the quality of formal institutions and economic performance. The literature on the relationship between such institutions and happiness is, however, rather limited, and inconclusive. In this paper, we revisit the findings from recent...
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Many empirical studies are ambiguous about whether good formal institutions are conducive to subjective well-being or not. Possibly, this ambiguity is caused by cross-section models that do not account for unobserved cultural and institutional effects. Using the World Value Survey 1980-2005,...
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A long tradition in economics explores the association between the quality of formal institutions and economic performance. The literature on the relationship between such institutions and happiness is, however, rather limited, and inconclusive. In this paper, we revisit the findings from recent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005027130