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Friendship network composition and subjective wellbeing
Awaworyi Churchill, Sefa; Smyth, Russell - 2017
heterogeneity in one’s friendship network and subjective wellbeing. We measure network heterogeneity by the extent to which one …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011648122
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Friendship network composition and subjective wellbeing
Awaworyi Churchill, Sefa; Smyth, Russell - 2017
heterogeneity in one's friendship network and subjective wellbeing. We measure network heterogeneity by the extent to which one …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011660075
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Trust, Racial Fragmentation and Income Inequality: New Evidence from the U.S.
Tesei, Andrea - 2014
Existing studies of trust formation in U.S. metropolitan areas have found that trust is lower when there is more income … groups (racial income inequality). I find that greater racial income inequality reduces trust. Also, racial fragmentation is … no longer a significant determinant of trust once racial income inequality is accounted for. This result is consistent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352449
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Trust, racial fragmentation and income inequality : new evidence from the US
Tesei, Andrea - 2014
Existing studies of trust formation in U.S. metropolitan areas have found that trust is lower when there is more income … groups (racial income inequality). I find that greater racial income inequality reduces trust. Also, racial fragmentation is … no longer a significant determinant of trust once racial income inequality is accounted for. This result is consistent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260009
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Trust, Racial Fragmentation and Income Inequality : New Evidence from the U.S
Tesei, Andrea - 2014
Existing studies of trust formation in U.S. metropolitan areas have found that trust is lower when there is more income … groups (racial income inequality). I find that greater racial income inequality reduces trust. Also, racial fragmentation is … no longer a significant determinant of trust once racial income inequality is accounted for. This result is consistent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013055376
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Trust, Racial Fragmentation and Income Inequality: New Evidence from the U.S.
Tesei, Andrea - CESifo - 2014
Existing studies of trust formation in U.S. metropolitan areas have found that trust is lower when there is more income … groups (racial income inequality). I find that greater racial income inequality reduces trust. Also, racial fragmentation is … no longer a significant determinant of trust once racial income inequality is accounted for. This result is consistent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010754655
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Competition-Led Endogenous Growth With Localized Technological Change
Gaffeo, Edoardo - In: Economics of Innovation and New Technology 8 (1999) 3, pp. 225-251
This paper presents an imperfect competition framework where growth is described as successful R&D investments in decreasing production-cost technologies. Innovation and imitation processes are modelled as activities requiring different amounts of investment, whose outcome is uncertaint both as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009205329
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Tax Competition with Heterogeneous Capital Mobility
Mongrain, Steeve; Wilson, John D. - 2015
An ongoing debate in the tax competition literature is the desirability for a system of countries, or regions, to restrict the preferential treatment of different forms of capital. A widespread belief is that without such restrictions, countries would aggressively compete for mobile capital,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011431226
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Tax competition with heterogeneous capital mobility
Mongrain, Steeve; Wilson, John D. - 2015
An ongoing debate in the tax competition literature is the desirability for a system of countries, or regions, to restrict the preferential treatment of different forms of capital. A widespread belief is that without such restrictions, countries would aggressively compete for mobile capital,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411327
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Beyond Outcomes: Measuring Procedural Utility
Frey, Bruno S.; Stutzer, Alois - Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung <Zürich> - 2004
People not only obtain utility from actual outcomes but also from the conditionswhich lead to these outcomes. The paper proposes an economic concept of this notion ofprocedural utility. Preferences beyond outcome can be manifold. We distinguish proceduralutility people get from institutions as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005868515