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Is fatalism a cultural belief? An empirical analysis on the origin of fatalistic tendencies
Ruiu, Gabriele - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
I maintain that fatalistic tendencies are the output of the interaction between cultural factors (and in particular of religious beliefs) and historical Institutional experience. Using WVS data this idea has been tested against two well known sociological theories on the origin of fatalism:...
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El fortalecimiento institucional de los bancos centrales
Heinrich, Gregor - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Annotated remarks made at the 50th Anniversary Conference “Fortalecimiento institucional de los bancos centrales y efectividad de la política monetaria”, of the Central Bank of Nicaragua, February 2010. The paper lays out the importance of institutional strenthening (governance) as an...
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Central banking in a regional economic setting: Possible contributions to integration.
Heinrich, Gregor - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Central banks can play an important role in facilitating and promoting regional economic and monetary integration. Examples are the European monetary union and a more recent initiative by a group of Asian central banks to boost liquidity in local bond markets in Asia through the “Asian Bond...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258884
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Contraintes institutionnelles et règlementaires et le secteur informel à Djibouti
Mahamoud, Ismael - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This research seeks to detect the institutional and regulatory constraints that limit the development of informal units in Djibouti by both the macroeconomic and microeconomic analysis. The review shows that institutional habits (corruption, going right) in regulation created transaction costs...
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Institutional Cognitive Economics: some recent developments
Gigante, Anna Azzurra - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
develop further this approach. This paper integrates F. Hayek’s theory on knowledge production and A. Bandura’s social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259259
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Diversification and development of the UAE’s economy
Schilirò, Daniele - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This contribution examines the major features of UAE’s economy, its factors of strengths, undelying also its critical aspects. Furthermore, the work focuses on the crucial factors that characterize a diversified knowledge economy and indicates the policies that the economy of the United Arab...
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Comparative, dynamic efficiency of national healthcare systems
Waśniewski, Krzysztof - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The paper is an ex post, critical contribution to the research conducted by the World Health Organisation on healthcare financing. The issue of national healthcare systems’ efficiency is addressed, through building a model of change in healthcare quality, in response to changes in healthcare...
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Несвободното възникване на свободния пазар - "Великата трансформация" на Карл Полани
Sedlarski, Teodor - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
An attempt is made to sum up the basic socio-economic issues in Karl Polanyi's book “The Great Transformation”, which is less known by the economists in our country. Suggesting an alternative to Marx's market economic analysis at the early stages of establishing and imposing the capitalist...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259513
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African Development,Partnership and Rationality Challenge:An Exposition
NWAOBI, GODWIN - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Since 1950s, most African nations have gained independence from their colonial powers. Fortunately, independence has brought many changes to these nations and these include multi-party democratic government and western education systems. Unfortunately, the Africa’s economy is the least...
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Corruption et Etats fragiles africains
Oasis, Kodila-Tedika; Remy, Bolito-Losembe - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
les déterminants de la corruption, cet article a pour objectif d’étudier la relation entre la corruption et la nature de l … corruption et la fragilité de l’Etat. Qui plus est, nos résultats suggèrent, après manipulation de l’économétrie des variables … allant de la fragilité étatique à l’extrême corruption d’autre part. …
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