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This research exploits the event of immigration to establish that institutions have a persistent effect on culture. It … inflated trust of immigrants is documented as the Great Expectations effect. This result is interesting and intriguing for … origin institutions and origin culture suggests that it is the effect of institutions that prevails. Last, the analysis …
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The mass media play a crucial role in modern societies. Media allows reaching with information’s about current events to the broad masses of recipients, they interpret it and construct their meanings, they create a community of values, organize entertainment in leisure time and mediate in...
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This paper explores whether asymmetric pricing can be identified in the eleven euro zone countries (Austria, Belgium, Finland, Greece, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal and Spain) by utilizing Error Correction Model on the weekly price changes in order to assess current and...
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The wave of privatization in the 1980s and 1990s increased productivity of many previously state owned enterprises (SOEs). However, governments often do not have su±cient support to privatize SOEs. We provide evidence that threatening privatization and market competition (entry of new firms)...
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This paper illustrates how trust in management can be consolidated through the order and mode of application of … with rules. “Whilst negotiating strategies are introduced initially to develop trust between the regulator and the … regulated, resort is made to more punitive strategies where an absence of trust in the compliance activity has been confirmed …
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"Social Capital of Old People on the Example of Bialystok Residents" is a book based on theoretical and empirical study, which presents an issue of diagnosing and using of old people social capital in the local and regional development processes. This issue is significant because of the threats...
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The question: “How much of biological evolution based theories, as they are understood presently, apply to human behaviour?” is highly controversial and perhaps highly politicized as well. The inference that human beings are evolutionarily programmed to have urges toward aggression, rape,...
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We develop a formal approach to the emergence of institutionalized trust in the context of the evolution of cooperation …, with a particular focus on the relevance of the size dimension of this process. While trust in general has been widely … to the co-evolution of institutions, trust, and the size of their populations and carrier groups. This then also helps …
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trust been investigated in the Chinese business setting. This paper uses an emic approach to unearth some within-culture …Trust is acknowledged as a central tenet of business relationships. Yet for all the attention it receives, rarely has … ‘truths’ about Chinese notions of trust in business exchange. The findings of this research suggest that deep trust (xinren …
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group plays the game for the second part of the experiment. Our results show that the arrival of newcomers decreases trust … among group members and this decrease in trust negatively affects group performance. Knowing the performance history of the …
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