The paper proposes an outline for the link between two theoretical perspectives on the prerequisites of high institutional quality and long run growth. One framework is based on the tradeoff between disorder and dictatorship and introduces the notion of the institutional possibility frontier,...

Recently there has been explosive growth in both the global reach and easy access to online social media content. However, people's motivations for using social media vary considerably from individual to individual. Attempting to gain a greater understanding of what motivates people to use...

This case investigates the inventory decisions and delivery optimization of a bottled water supplier. It dissects the key performance indicators of a distributor. The selected KPIs for delivery optimization, inventory management and labor management are optimized using various tools and...

When it comes to entrepreneurship, the conceptual framework of economics is disjointed: on the one hand most everyone agrees that entrepreneurial initiative and creativity are critical for economic progress. On the other hand neither initiative, nor creativity, plays any role in formal models of...

This paper describes the Australian Twins Economic Preferences Survey (ATEPS). The dataset comprises a wide variety of preference and behavioral measures (risk aversion, impatience, ambiguity aversion, trust, confidence) elicited using incentivised decision tasks. 1,120 Australian adult twins...

As the not-so-new-now coronavirus pandemic has affected all walks of life, education has not been an exemption; what is more, it is one of the most severely hit sectors. The unknown crisis created unprecedented circumstances for all participants in the education process, and school leaders have...

We introduce two new measures of the performance of a scientist. One measure, referred to as the halpha;-index, generalizes the well-known h-index or Hirsch index. The other measure, referred to as the galpha;-index, generalizes the closely related g-index. We analyze theoretically the...

Enterprise-class information systems based on the principles of Service Oriented Architecture comprise large numbers of long-running, highly dynamic complex end-to-end service interactions, called conversations, based on message exchanges that typically transcend several organizations and span...

Today's Western individual can be described as a satisfied citizen. But while it is clear that the lives of the inhabitants of the First World are filled with a sense of satisfaction, the question immediately arises as to what this sensation is based on, if it is more than a merely skin-deep...