We examine the impact of a different cultural background on individual behavior, focusing on violence on the football field of southern European and nothern European football players in the English Premier League. We find that southern European football players collect on average more football...

This study examined developmental trajectories of alcohol use and violent behavior among urban African American youth and the longitudinal relationship between these behaviors from adolescence to emerging adulthood. The sample included 649 African American youth (49 percent male) followed for...

We estimate the causal effect of mandatory participation in the military service on the involvement in criminal activities. We exploit the random assignment of young men to military service in Argentina through a draft lottery to identify this causal effect. Using a unique set of administrative...

Current study intends to seek the role of deterrent variables in minimizing the violence behavior of the natives of a society, as literature of crime and economics discipline at country level is unable to explain it. We have concentrated on deterrent variables defined as conviction rate to...

Is there any interrelationship between firm level FDI in the form of cross border Mergers amp; Acquisitions and capital markets growth and quality? We addressed this question using panel data of cross border Mamp;A for nine emerging economies. Our study period goes from 1987 to 2006. We find...

The depth of and access to financial services provided by banks throughout Latin America are extremely low in spite of its recognized importance for economic activity, employment and poverty alleviation. Low financial depth and access hurts the poor the most and is due to a variety of obstacles...

Sao Paulo's metropolitan area is one of the largest urban spaces in the world. As it happens with any other large metropolitan area, understanding its structure, problems and dynamics is not a simple task. The structure of cities has been studied by urban economics ever since von Thunen's land...

This paper investigates the impact of financial liberalization on bank efficiency, using data for a sample of over 4,000 banks from ten emerging economies for the period 1991-2000. We use the DEA approach to calculate bank efficiency at the individual bank level. Bank efficiency measures are...

What explains the effectiveness of autonomous audit agencies (AAAs) in emerging economies? How relevant are they for improving fiscal governance and curbing corruption? AAAs are autonomous state agencies tasked with overseeing government finances. They are a critical component of the system of...

In this paper we examine the impact of inflation on financial development in Brazil. The data available permit us to cover the eventful period between 1985 and 2002 and the results - based initially on time series and then on panel time series data and analysis, and robust for different...