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Who trusts Berlusconi? An econometric analysis of the role of television in the political arena
Sabatini, Fabio - 2011
television in the formation of political consensus in Italy. Based on probit and instrumental variables estimates, we find trust … in television to be the most significant predictor of trust in the Italian prime minister. The latter is also strongly … and negatively correlated with trust in the judicial system and tolerance towards immigrants. …
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Supply-side factors and uptake of insurance products among Ghanaian households
Ofori, Justice; Boateng, Frank; Atiku, Sulaiman Olusegun. - In: Cogent Business & Management 10 (2023) 2, pp. 1-20
This study examines the influence of supply-side factors on uptake of insurance, as well the moderating effect of sales agent effectiveness on the interactions. A survey research design was adopted following a quantitative approach. The target population of this study comprised Ghanaian...
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The Philippines in the Global Trading Environment: Looking Back and the Road Ahead
Austria, Myrna S. - 2002
The government has implemented substantial trade and investment policy reforms during the last two decades following a three-track approach involving unilateral, regional and multilateral modalities towards freer trade and investment. The reforms resulted to improvements in domestic resource...
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The supply chain for seed in Uganda: Where does it all go wrong?
Barriga, Alicia; Fiala, Nathan - 2018
Improving agricultural output and food security is a major concern in sub-Saharan Africa, but many efforts to help farmers improve yields have failed. Recent research has shown that agriculture inputs are often of very low quality, which may explain suboptimal yields and low adoption of inputs....
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Liberalization with Endogenous Institutions: A Comparative Analysis of Agricultural Reform in Africa, Asia, and Europe
Swinnen, Johan F. M.; Vandeplas, Anneleen; Maertens, Miet - 2009
Thirty years ago, a vast share of the poor and middle income countries were heavily state-controlled. The effects of the liberalizations in the 1980s and 1990s differed strongly between regions in Africa, Asia and Europe. This paper first documents these differences in refirm effects in a...
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Big Data and Agricultural Supply Chains: Opportunities for Increased Food Security
Tsiolias, Dimitrios; Keramydas, Christos; Iakovou, … - 2015
Today's interconnected digital world with its multitude of data-collecting devices and means along with augmented data processing capabilities has unlocked new possibilities for increasing the efficiency of contemporary agricultural supply chains, including production, processing and...
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Venture capital and private equity investment strategies in selected European countries
Dziekoński, Krzysztof; Ignatiuk, Sławomir - In: e-Finanse: Financial Internet Quarterly 11 (2015) 4, pp. 34-45
Private equity and venture capital (PE/VC) funding is the provision of equity capital by financial investors to non-quoted companies with high growth potential. It has a particular emphasis on entrepreneurial activities rather than on mature businesses. PE/VC investors differ on several...
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The impact on employment and hours of allowing sunday alcohol sales in Georgia
Hotchkiss, Julie L.; Qi, Yanling - 2015
This paper uses the differential timing across counties of the removal of restrictions on Sunday alcohol sales in the state of Georgia to determine whether the change had an impact on employment and hours in the beer, wine, and liquor retail sales industry. A triple-difference analysis finds...
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The Coevolutionary Relationship of Technology, Market and Government Regulation in Telecommunications
Lin, Xuchen; Lu, Ting-Jie; Chen, Xia - 2017
The technical change in telecommunications industry is tremendous, and it is exactly the continuous technological progress in telecommunications that brings sustained prosperity and development of the telecommunications industry. Inthis paper, the interplay between technology, market and...
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Unraveling the Origins of EU Countries Productivity Growth - Evidence on R&D and Competition from Cross-Country Industry Analysis
Strobel, Thomas - 2010
Over the last two decades EU countries experienced diverging productivity growthdevelopments. By examining the sources of EU countries growth drivers on the sectorallevel, the paper takes a new look on the influence of innovations. While standard neoclassicalNon-ICT capital deepening turns out...
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