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Essays in Development and Transition Economics
Teksoez, Sitki Utku - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
This study consists of three empirical essays that analyse the impact of corruption on foreign direct investment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008520738
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Can policy make us happier? Individual characteristics, socioeconomic factors, and life satisfaction in Central and Eastern Europe.
Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés; Maslauskaite, Kristina - European Economic Studies, College of Europe - 2011
share the same individual determinants of happiness as people in the West (despite some significant cross-country variation … macroeconomic side, GDP growth is still a source of increasing well-being, but the happiness bonus associated with it is becoming … smaller. The different levels of individual happiness in CEE are therefore mostly determined by institutional factors such as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010737486
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On the advantages and disadvantages of subjective measures
Jahedi, Salar; Méndez, Fabio - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 98 (2014) C, pp. 97-114
This paper utilizes data from a laboratory experiment in order to examine the advantages and disadvantages of subjective measures. Our results indicate good and bad news: subjective measures correlate highly with the variables they are designed to capture but they also systematically suffer from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010743951
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Development Aid, Corruption, and the Happiness of Nations: Analysis of 118 countries over the years 1996-2009
ARVIN, B. Mak; LEW, Byron - In: Applied Econometrics and International Development 12 (2012) 2
happiness – but only in countries where corruption is most rampant. … development aid. Another more recent strand of the literature considers whether the receipt of aid affects the happiness of … developing countries. Since corruption, an indicator of the general environment, coexists with aid we consider an empirical model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010674791
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The Economic Causes and Consequences of Social Instability in China
Knight, John - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2012
Social instability is a concept that economists rarely analyse, and yet it can lurk behind much economic policy-making.  China’s leadership has often publicly expressed its concerns to avoid ‘social instability’.  It is viewed as a threat both to the political order and to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011133081
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Can policy make us happier? Individual characteristics, socioeconomic factors, and life satisfaction in Central and Eastern Europe
Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés; Maslauskaite, Kristina - Instituto de Ciencias Sociales, Instituto Madrileño de … - 2011
share the same individual determinants of happiness as people in the West (despite some significant cross-country variation … macroeconomic side, GDP growth is still a source of increasing well-being, but the happiness bonus associated with it is becoming … smaller. The different levels of individual happiness in CEE are therefore mostly determined by institutional factors such as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371190
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Does Foreign Bank Entry Contribute to Financial Depth?: Examining The Role of Income Thresholds
Gopalan, Sasidaran - HKUST Institute for Emerging Market Studies (IEMS), … - 2015
This paper examines the relationship between foreign bank entry and financial depth for 57 emerging and developing economies (EMDEs) over 1995-2009. Using various measures of financial depth, the paper also explores the degree to which the relationship between foreign bank entry and financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011266145
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'Taxing' Doctors: The Impact of Income Caps on the Provision of Medical Services
Kralj, Boris; Kantarevic, Jasmin; Weinkauf, Darrel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
Income cap or threshold systems rely on incentives that encourage physicians to limit medical expenditures, but little is known about how physicians respond to these incentives. Conceptually, the threshold system is to physicians what an income tax system is to taxpayers. We exploit this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822559
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Happiness in the dual society of urban China:Hukou identity, horizontal inequality and heterogeneous reference
Jiang, Shiqing; Lu, Ming; Sato, Hiroshi - LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance, … - 2008
between migrants and urban residents-affects individual happiness. The main results are as follows. First, migrants suffer … migrants, and they also favor higher relative income among urban residents. Fourth, "born?urban residents have lower happiness …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005088354
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Continued Pursuit of Happily Ever After: Low Barriers to Divorce and Happiness
Horner, Elizabeth - In: Journal of Family and Economic Issues 35 (2014) 2, pp. 228-240
that reductions in the barriers to divorce were associated with reductions in women’s happiness, particularly among older … average higher happiness after low barriers to divorce. These relationships were found even for individuals who remained … married, suggesting that this redistribution of happiness was in part the result of a change in bargaining power within …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010987872