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Dead Man Walking: An Empirical Reassessment of the Deterrent Effect of Capital Punishment Using the Bounds Testing Approach to Cointegration
Smyth, Russell; Narayan, Paresh Kumar - Econometric Society - 2004
This paper empirically estimates a murder supply equation for the United States from 1965 to 2001 within a cointegration and error correction framework. Our findings suggest that any support for the deterrence hypothesis is sensitive to the inclusion of variables for the effect of guns and other...
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Interconnectedness in the Australian National Electricity Market : A Higher Moment Analysis
Do, Hung Xuan; Nepal, Rabindra; Smyth, Russell - 2020
We examine the risk transmission mechanisms in the interconnected Australian National Electricity Market (NEM). We illustrate that the transmission of extreme events in terms of their magnitude (via skewness) and the likelihood of their occurrence (via kurtosis) should be considered when...
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Division of labor, specialization and the enforcement of a system of property rights : a general equilibrium analysis
Li, Ke; Smyth, Russell - 2001
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Does microfinance change informal lending in village economies? Evidence from Bangladesh
Islam, Asadul; Nguyen, Chau; Smyth, Russell - In: Journal of Banking & Finance 50 (2015) C, pp. 141-156
This paper examines how availability of microfinance influences households’ borrowing from informal sources in village economies. It uses a unique household level panel data set, which spans more than two decades (1987–2008), from rural Bangladesh. We find that households’ access to...
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Does microfinance change informal lending in village economies? Evidence from Bangladesh
Islam, Asadul; Smyth, Russell; Nguyen, Chau - Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, … - 2014
This paper examines how availability of microfinance influences households' borrowing from informal sources in village economies. It uses a unique household level panel data set, which spans more than two decades (1987-2008), from rural villages in Bangladesh. We find that households' access to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010780706
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Examining the Relationship Between Workplace Support and Life Satisfaction: The Mediating Role of Job Satisfaction
Newman, Alexander; Nielsen, Ingrid; Smyth, Russell; … - In: Social Indicators Research 120 (2015) 3, pp. 769-781
This paper examines the influence of perceived organizational support and perceived supervisor support on employee life satisfaction. Structural equation modelling on data from 393 nurses from two Chinese hospitals revealed that job satisfaction fully mediated the relationship between perceived...
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Higher Education, Real Income and Real Investment in China: Evidence From Granger Causality Tests
Narayan, Paresh Kumar; Smyth, Russell - In: Education Economics 14 (2006) 1, pp. 107-125
, real investment and tertiary education using data for the People's Republic of China over the period 1952-1999. To proxy …
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How Does Relative Income and Variations in Short-Run Wellbeing Affect Wellbeing in the Long Run? Empirical Evidence From China’s Korean Minority
Mishra, Vinod; Nielsen, Ingrid; Smyth, Russell - In: Social Indicators Research 115 (2014) 1, pp. 67-91
short run wellbeing impact upon wellbeing in the long run. We do so for China’s Korean ethnic minority. We find that …
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Happiness and Job Satisfaction in Urban China: A Comparative Study of Two Generations of Migrants and Urban Locals
Smyth, Russell; Wang, Haining; Cheng, Zhiming - Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, … - 2013
new-generation migrants in China's urban workforce. We present evidence to suggest that new-generation migrants are less … with aspirations rising faster than income in China's fast growing urban economy. …
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Compensating Wage & Income Differentials for Occupational Risk: Evidence from Migrant Workers in China's Pearl River Delta
Smyth, Russell; Wang, Haining; Cheng, Zhiming - Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, … - 2013
This study contributes to an important, but under-researched, topic on China by empirically examining the theory of … compensating differentials in the context of China's migrant workers. Using survey data collected from the Pearl River Delta in … Guangdong province in south China, this study applies the Firpo-Fortin-Lemieux quantile decomposition method to examine the …
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