Social trust positively contributes to secondary education enrollment rates in a cross-section of countries. Country-specific characteristics that are significant in explaining secondary school enrollment include the degree of income inequality and the percent of the population identified as Muslim.

Kaufkraftparität und die irische Erfahrung: Einheitswurzel- und Kointegrationstests bei zwei Industrieländern In diesem Beitrag werden Einheitswurzel-/stationäre Prozeß- und Kointegrationstests für die Prüfung der Kaufkraftparität Irlands im Vergleich mit zwei Industrieländern verwendet....

One potential real effect of inflation is its influence on the dispersion of relative prices in the economy which affects economic efficiency and aggregate output. Using a novel data set for the US and UK and a VARMA asymmetric bivariate GARCH-M model of inflation and relative price dispersion,...