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Where Minds Meet: The "Professionalization" of Cross-Strait Academic Exchange
Schucher, Günter - 2009
exchange across the Taiwan Strait commenced in the late 1980s, directly after the lifting of the travel ban, and had gathered … momentum by the mid-1990s. It even accelerated further after the inauguration of the pro-independence Chen-government in Taiwan … explanation for this is that due to the rather unique situation in the Taiwan Strait people-to-people exchanges between Taiwan and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275941
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Trust in International Organizations: An Empirical Investigation Focusing on the United Nations
Torgler, Benno - 2007
The literature on social capital has strongly increased in the last two decades, but there still is a lack of substantial empirical evidence about the determinants of international trust. This empirical study analyses a cross-section of individuals, using micro-data from the World Values Survey,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312248
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Social identity, competition, and finance: a laboratory experiment
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Große, Niels Daniel - 2009
There is extensive literature, both theoretical and empirical, on the effects of social identity on a wide range of economic and non-economic outcomes. However, there is only scarce knowledge about how social identity is affected by policies or market structure. We address the question how...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274054
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Social identity and inequality: The impact of China's hukou system
Afridi, Farzana; Li, Sherry Xin; Ren, Yufei - 2012
economic incentives. We focus on China's household registration (hukou) system which favors urban residents and discriminates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286869
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Cognitive and institutional perspectives of eco effiency: A new research landscape towards factor four (or more)
Bleischwitz, Raimund - 2002
The paper sketches out a theoretical framework for analysing the interplaybetween eco-efficiency, cognition and …. It emphasises therole cognition and institutions play in the adoption of green technologies byfirms. A cognitive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010306201
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Cognition and behavior in two-person guessing games: An experimental study
Costa-Gomes, Miguel A.; Crawford, Vincent P. - 2004
of the behavior implied by leading decision rules and makes monitoring search a powerful tool for studying cognition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332279
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Past experience, cognitive frames, and entrepreneurship: some econometric evidence from the Indian pharmaceutical industry
Bhaduri, Saradindu; Worch, Hagen - 2008
The theoretical literature identifies three important entrepreneurial dimensions, namely discovering new opportunities, responsiveness to uncertainty, and coordination of a firm. In the empirical literature, past experience has been identified as having an important influence on organizational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266716
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Cognition and economic outcomes in the health and retirement survey
MacArdle, John J.; Smith, James P.; Willis, Robert - 2009
Dimensions of cognitive skills are potentially important but often neglected determinants of the central economic outcomes that shape overall well-being over the life course. There exists enormous variation among households in their rates of wealth accumulation, their holdings of financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269015
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Education, Cognition, Health Knowledge, and Health Behavior
Mocan, Naci; Altindag, Duha T. - 2013
education on health behavior is the same between those with and without a learning disability, suggesting that cognition is not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500243
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Early life conditions and financial risk-taking in older age
Christelis, Dimitris; Dobrescu, Loretti I.; Motta, Alberto - 2011
Using life-history survey data from eleven European countries, we investigate whether childhood conditions, such as socioeconomic status, cognitive abilities and health problems influence portfolio choice and risk attitudes later in life. After controlling for the corresponding conditions in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010308548