The purpose of the article is to demonstrate the significance of the activity run by philanthropic organizations in Poland for the benefit of society and the economy in the light of the social welfare of governmental organizations. Verification of hypotheses was conducted using different...

Economics students have been shown to exhibit more selfishness than other students. Because the literature identifies the impact of long-term exposure to economics instruction (e.g., taking a course), it cannot isolate the specific course content responsible; nor can selection, peer effects, or...

Over the past twenty-five years the Duke history of economics faculty, together with the collection development librarians in the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library, have been gathering the papers of notable (mostly) twentieth century economists in what is now called The...

Recent literature on Adam Smith and other 18th-century Scottish thinkers shows an engaged conversation between the Scots and today's scholars in the sciences that deal with humans—social sciences, humanities, as well as neuroscience and evolutionary psychology. We share with the 18th-century...

notes on growth models with overlapping generations (OLG) structure

notes on exogenous growth models

notes on Endogenous Growth Models

Replication studies are considered a hallmark of good scientific practice. Yet they are treated among researchers as an ideal to be professed but not practiced. To provide incentives and favorable boundary conditions for replication practice, the main stakeholders need to be aware of what drives...

In this note we check for the existence of an S-surve for Croatia, Hungary and Slovenia. We interpret the results in the spirit of the business cycle literature. Compare institutions, fiscal/monetary policy, whether they had currency/banking crises within the sample, how much they trade trade...

A report written on Asplund, M, and Friberg, Richard (2001). "The Law of One Price in Scandinavian Duty-Free Stores." American Economic Association, vol. 91(4), pages 1072-1083, September.