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For Better and for Worse - How Unpaid Bride Wealth provides Security
Hoogeveen, Hans - Tinbergen Instituut - 2000
The obligation to pay bride wealth at marriage is usually associated with thecontinuation of the lineage or considered a compensation for the loss of laborfor the family that provides the bride. In this paper a different interpretationis advanced. The obligation to pay of bride wealth is seen as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255899
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How important are Institutions for Growth in Transition Countries?
Moers, Luc - Tinbergen Institute - 1999
-95. Estimation results suggest that (particularly state) institutions are significant for growth and, especially, foreign direct … growth performance in transition countries than institutions per se. This suggests that macroeconomic stabilization and peace …Growth empirics with institutional measures is performed for 25 transition countries over the period 1990 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005144418
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For Better and for Worse - How Unpaid Bride Wealth provides Security
Hoogeveen, Hans - Tinbergen Institute - 2000
The obligation to pay bride wealth at marriage is usually associated with the continuation of the lineage or considered a compensation for the loss of labor for the family that provides the bride. In this paper a different interpretation is advanced. The obligation to pay of bride wealth is seen...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005144474
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How important are Institutions for Growth in Transition Countries?
Moers, Luc - Tinbergen Instituut - 1999
results suggest that (particularly state) institutions aresignificant for growth and, especially, foreign direct investment …Growth empirics with institutional measures is performed for 25 transition countries overthe period 1990-95. Estimation … is more likely to be a (direct) causation. Only inflation and war seem to have beenrelatively more important for growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256354
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Pareto Efficiency in the Jungle
Houba, Harold; Luttens, Roland Iwan; Weikard, Hans-Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014
We include initial holdings in the jungle economy of Piccione and Rubinstein (Economic Journal, 2007) in which the unique equilibrium satisfies lexicographic welfare maximization. When we relax assumptions on consumption sets and preferences slightly, equilibria other than lexicographic welfare...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255490
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Uncertainty Avoidance and the Rate of Business Ownership across 22 OECD Countries, 1976-2000
Wennekers, Sander; Thurik, Roy; Stel, André van; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003
This paper deals with the influence of cultural attitudes towards uncertainty on the level of businessownership across countries. First, the concepts of uncertainty and risk are elaborated, as well as theirrelevance for entrepreneurship. Second, cross-sectional regression analysis using data for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255529
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Mapping the Minds of Retirement Planners
Hershey, Douglas A.; Henkens, Kène; Dalen, Hendrik P. van - Tinbergen Institute - 2006
This study explored the psychological mechanisms that underlie the retirement planning and saving tendencies of Dutch and American workers. Participants were 988 Dutch and 429 Americans, 25-64 years of age. Analyses were designed to: (a) examine the extent to which structural variables were...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005144426
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Economic Integration and Manufacturing Location in EU Accession Countries
Longhi, Simonetta; Nijkamp, Peter; Traistaru, Iulia - Tinbergen Institute - 2003
This paper investigates patterns of manufacturing location in the context of increased economic integration in Central and East European countries. Using regional data for the period 1990-1999, we identify and compare patterns and determinants of manufacturing location in five European Union...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005144539
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Mapping the Minds of Retirement Planners
Hershey, Douglas A.; Henkens, Kène; Dalen, Hendrik P. van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006
This study explored the psychological mechanisms that underlie the retirement planning and saving tendencies of Dutch and American workers. Participants were 988 Dutch and 429 Americans, 25-64 years of age. Analyses were designed to: (a) examine the extent to which structural variables were...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256396
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Economic Integration and Manufacturing Location in EU Accession Countries
Longhi, Simonetta; Nijkamp, Peter; Traistaru, Iulia - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003
This paper investigates patterns of manufacturing location in the context of increased economic integration in Central and East European countries. Using regional data for the period 1990-1999, we identify and compare patterns and determinants of manufacturing location in five European Union...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257184