We introduce a high quality proxy for bank misconduct that is constructed from Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) complaint data. We employ this proxy to measure the impact of bank misconduct on the expansion of online lending in the United States. Using nearly complete loan and...

This document includes the Introduction and table of contents of a project: Think Spiral: Essays on Adam Smith. The Introduction has the following sections: (1) A Social Grammar(2) The Three Justices: Commutative, Distributive, and Estimative(3) The Liberal Program(4) The Theory of Moral...

With his book The Conservatarian Manifesto: Libertarians, Conservatives, and the Fight for the Right's Future, Charles C.W. Cooke aims is to get good policy – or, at least, better policy – to work as good politics. The vehicle of the good politics, for Cooke, is the constellation of...

In recent years, economic and financial crimes have been increasing at a fast pace. No country, society, culture or community has been immune from its ravages, yet the international community has failed to cooperate in finding a solution. The main reason for failure may be the lack of a clearly...

This paper aims to listen and understand the voices of the self-employed workers of a shrinking traditional iron kitchen utensil making microenterprise cluster based at Patardih village of Deoghar district in state of Jharkhand in India. The point of view of these self-employed workers have been...

History, sociology, anthropology and law currently study the impact of human practices on social, economic and environmental contexts, among others. Within this context, the aim of this article is to analyze the institutionalization of human rights in Brazilian law to provide adequate food as a...

The potential of active portfolio management with fixed-mix strategies is analysed under the systemic risk settings of the derivative market and the financial assets market. The fast exponential growth of fixed-mix portfolios under the non-degeneracy condition, which is the non-constancy of the...

The informal institutional structure embraces the social norms and moral values of a particular society and together with the formal institutional frame they compose the social environment. Social norms and values, congealed into customary rules of behaviour, provide a stable and enduring...

This study examines the relationship between consumption and happiness, using panel data from China Family Panel Studies (CFPS). We find that total consumption expenditure has a significant and positive effect on happiness, but we find no evidence of a non-linear relationship between consumption...

The study examines the impact of local government reforms (devolution plan 2001 of Pakistan) on the community mobilization of the local population. Exploratory factor analysis and principle component analysis were used for the construction of community mobilization index over the period of...