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The Foundations of Corporate Social Responsibility

Liang, Hao - 2014

We investigate the roles of legal origins and political institutions – believed to be the fundamental determinants of … with global coverage. We contrast the different views on how legal origins and political institutions affect corporations … institutions – democratic rules and constraints to political executives – are not preconditions for CSR and sustainability, and …

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Ethnic inequality and economic growth : evidence from harmonized satellite data

Gründler, Klaus; Link, Andreas - 2024

Inequality between ethnic groups has been shown to be negatively related to GDP, but research on its eﬀect on contemporary economic growth is limited by the availability of comparable data. We compile a novel and comprehensive dataset of harmonized Gini indices on ethnic inequality for...

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Scientific research activity and GDP : an analysis of causality based on 144 countries from around the world

Dębski, Wiesław; Świderski, Bartosz; Kurek, Jarosław - In: Contemporary economics 12 (2018) 3, pp. 315-336

Using the Granger methodology, this paper presents the causal relationship between scientific research activity, expressed as the number of significant publications, and gross domestic product (GDP). With causality tests, this relationship is investigated from two points of view: for each...

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Wealth inequality and economic growth : evidence from the world inequality database

Steenbrink, Rachel; Skali, Ahmed - 2024

Although it is often argued that wealth inequality matters more for economic growth than income inequality, this relationship has rarely been studied empirically, with a few exceptions covering a very restricted country sample or short timeframe. Leveraging hitherto unexploited wealth inequality...

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