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Human Trafficking : A Global Multi-Billion Dollar Criminal Industry
Smith, Katherine Taken; Russell, Hannah; Smith, Murphy - 2019
. Human trafficking is a major crime industry, generating about $32 billion in revenues annually. Around the globe, the …
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Why Copyright and Linking Can Tango
Tsoutsanis, Alexander - 2014
This article discusses the legal status of links, in connection with the pending cases before the Court of Justice of the European Union in Svensson, C More and BestWater. Hyperlinks, deep links, framed links and embedded links are discussed. It focuses on the Opinion of the European Copyright...
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When foul play seems fair : dishonesty as a response to violations of just deserts
Kline, Reuben; Galeotti, Fabio; Orsini, Raimondello - 2014
We investigate the norm of just deserts and its effect on honesty. Just deserts is an essential norm in a market society, and honesty is an important factor in economic and social exchange. In particular, we analyze what happens when the social distributive rules betray the reasonable...
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Controlling Organized Crime and Corruption in the Public Sector
Buscaglia, Edgardo - 2006
Organized crime and corruption are shaped by the lack of strength of the control mechanisms of the State and civil … society. The results presented in the present article attest to the links between the growth of organized crime and that of … corruption in the public sector in a large number of countries. The two types of complex crime reinforce each other. To identify …
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Multidisciplinary household panel studies under academic direction
Schupp, Jürgen; Frick, Joachim R. - 2010
This paper concentrates on the trends in peer-reviewed longitudinal panel studies under scientific direction. Household panel studies have succeeded in broadening their disciplinary scope. Numerous innovations such as questions dealing with psychological concepts, and age-specific topical...
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Sociology of sociology : strengthening the role of social sciences as a new priority of climate and sustainability policy
Strzałkowski, Andrzej - In: Economic and environmental studies : a journal for … 16 (2016) 3, pp. 453-468
Today, there are a lot of studies on climate change and sustainability from social sciences’ perspectives. Achievements of sociology, psychology or political sciences can be extremely helpful in designing, adopting, implementing and evaluating of effective climate and sustainability policy....
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Real Estate Prices : An International Study of Seasonality’s Sentiment Effect
Kaplanski, Guy - 2012
The current study shows that real estate prices in several countries reveal a significant and persistent seasonality, where the highest rates of return are obtained in the spring and early summer, and the lowest rates of return are obtained in the fall. This seasonality is explained by a joint...
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The Behavioral Foundations of Corporate Dividend Policy : A Cross-Country Analysis
Breuer, Wolfgang - 2014
We study a model that relates dividend payout policy to behavioral issues based on the ideas of mental accounting. A panel analysis across 29 countries and over 43,000 firm-years demonstrates that our model studying the relation between dividends and patience, loss aversion, and ambiguity...
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Beyond Shareholder Value - A Framework for Stakeholder Governance
Vasudev, P. M. - 2021
Societal inequalities – mainly, economic – are a topical subject. Given the dominance of large business corporations in the US and Canada, an important question is about corporations’ role in shaping the socioeconomic trends, including inequality. "Beyond Shareholder Value - A Framework...
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Bitcoin versus Regulated Payment Systems : What Gives?
Trautman, Lawrence J. - 2017
In a short period of time virtual currencies have gained significant traction and become an economic reality, with Bitcoin being the most dominant among over 500 virtual currencies. Bitcoin and other virtual currencies present a particularly difficult and unique jurisdictional challenge to...
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