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scarce and slowly growing in all types of firms. This paper analyses female-specific contributions to governance, leadership …
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women’s involvement in governance. Italy and Germany are following the law path undertaken by Norway to reach the women …
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Procurement (GPP) and contributing to energy efficiency governance at local level. Using an econometric analysis, this study … instrument for energy efficiency governance by the municipalities in Tuscany (Italy). The results highlight that GPP practices in … the building and construction sector can contribute to the energy efficiency governance at local level if municipality …
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In this paper the irregular sector has a negative influence on innovation, education and economic growth. It is assumed that the illegal behaviour of entrepreneurs has costs in terms of competences that could be useful for innovation adoption. Due to strategic complementarity between education...
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Due to the interdependence of the contemporary world economy, the great American crisis of 2008-2010 rapidly has become the global crisis. However, it is not just another, only larger than before crisis. It is a fundamental crisis of the capitalist market economy based on neoliberalism....
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Family networks play an important role, in particular in presence of imperfections in the credit and insurance markets. Familial ties can support informal contract that wold not be implemented otherwise. Such characteristics make family networks particularly relevant in developing countries...
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The Final Report of the National Commission on the Causes of the Financial and Economic Crisis in the United States was released on January 27th, 2011. The strong political differences within the commission prevented the draft of a shared report. In addition to the majority report, two...
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This paper examines the role of shadow economy, tax enforcement and taxation, on economic growth. These effects are studied by simulating a modified version of an endogenous growth model proposed by Loayza (1996). Econometric results and calibration are based on the Italian economy over the...
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This study contributes to the debate on estimating the size of underground economy, by proposing a reinterpretation of the Currency Demand Approach (CDA). Three main innovations are introduced. First, a direct measure of cash transactions is taken as dependent variable in the money demand...
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This study contributes to the debate on estimating the size of underground economy, by proposing a reinterpretation of the Currency Demand Approach (CDA). Three main innovations are introduced. First, a direct measure of cash transactions is taken as dependent variable in the money demand...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010700780