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Another empirical look at the Kuznets curve

Bhandari, Rabindra; Pradhan, Gyan; Upadhyay, Mukti - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 3 (2010) 2, pp. 7-19

This paper examines the functional relationships between income inequality, economic factors, institutions, and Kuznets …, and the ratio of income shares in income distributionusing a panel data set for 57 countries from 1987 to 2006. The … host of economic and institutional factors. -- Kuznets curve ; inequality ; growth ; Gini coefficient ; income shares …

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Infrastructure, economic growth and population density in Turkey

Beyzatlar, Mehmet Aldonat; Kuştepeli, Yeşim - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 4 (2011) 3, pp. 39-57

that improvements in transportation infrastructure lead to higher income and higher population in the investigated area …

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Confidence in financial institutions, expectations and public debt

DiPietro, William R. - In: Journal of finance and investment analysis 2 (2013) 1, pp. 15-22

This paper uses cross country regression analysis on a large set of countries to consider two hypotheses. The first is that increased public debt as a percentage of the economy reduces confidence in financial institutions. The second is that increased public debt relative to the economy lowers...

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What do we know about pro-poor growth and regional poverty in Nigeria?

Ichoku, Hyacinth Eme; Agu, Chukwuma; Ataguba, John Ele-Ojo - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 5 (2012) 3, pp. 147-172

This study investigates the pro-poorness of income growth in Nigeria. Using nationally representative data for 1996 and … 2004, overall income growth in Nigeria was found not to be pro-poor. The richer segments of the population appropriate … redistributing income is also required to ensure pro-poorness of growth in Nigeria. -- economic growth ; pro-poor growth ; poverty …

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Deutsche Industrie trotzt dem Aufstieg der Schwellenländer

Gornig, Martin; Schiersch, Alexander - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 79 (2012) 10, pp. 11-15

Zwischen 2000 und 2009 ist China zur zweitgrößten Industrienation aufgestiegen und auch die Industrien anderer Schwellenländer sowie vieler osteuropäischer Länder sind sehr dynamisch gewachsen. Dennoch konnte Deutschland seinen Anteil an der globalen Industrieproduktion weitgehend...

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Technology, human capital and growth : further evidence from threshold cointegration

Apergis, Nicholas - In: The open economics journal 2 (2009), pp. 80-86

This paper assesses whether the linkages between R&D, human capital and productivity growth in a panel of EU manufacturing industries over the period 1980-2002 are affected by a critical level of human capital. To employ our data in an efficient manner, the study makes use of a dynamic...

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Behavioral biases in economic and financial knowledge : are they the same for men and women?

Kudryavtsev, Andrey; Cohen, Gil - In: Advances in management & applied economics 1 (2011) 1, pp. 15-52

Contemporary research documents various psychological aspects of economic thought and decision-making. The main goal of our study is to analyze the role of the hindsight bias (Fischhoff [20]) and the anchoring bias (Tversky and Kahneman [53]) in perceiving economic and financial information,...

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Does increased price competition reduce entry of new pharmaceutical products?

Granlund, David; Rudholm, Niklas - In: Advances in management & applied economics 1 (2011) 1, pp. 1-14

In October 2002, a substitution reform was introduced in the Swedish pharmaceuticals market. In this paper, the effects of increased price competition due to the reform on the entry of new pharmaceutical products were studied. The results show that the reform did affect the entry behavior of...

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Disclosure of medical information in health insurance

Rahkovsky, Ilya - In: Advances in management & applied economics 3 (2013) 1, pp. 183-205

Disclosure of private medical information allows insurance companies to better predict medical expenditures. The premiums the companies charge the insured employees reflect these expenditures. This paper studies incentives of employees to disclose their medical information. I find that healthier...

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The exchange of knowledge : a case study

Felice, Annunziata de; Matucci, Isabella; Schirone, Dario A. - In: Advances in management & applied economics 3 (2013) 2, pp. 67-82

The Brundtland Report (1987) is the first formalization of the relationship between development and environment: "Development is sustainable if it meets the needs of present generations without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs." In the sixties and seventies,...

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