This study employs dynamic panel generalized method of moment (GMM) technique to empirically examine the role of institutions in explaining the causal relationship between macroeconomic fluctuations and financial instability for a sample of 44 emerging and developing countries over the 1996-...

This paper examines the impact of political economic sensitivities of the trade regime among politically asymmetric countries. Our concerns focus on the effects of firm’s lobbying activity in each country, not only tariff setting, but also on the trade regime's decision, especially considering...

Procrastination is a general phenomenon among college students and is one of the major reasons for students to visit the counseling center for help. Many researches reported that procrastinators report “concern over mistakes” as one of the main reasons to persist in procrastinating. Having...

Financial deregulations or financial liberalization can be referred to a variety of changes in the law which allows financial institutions more freedom in how they compete. Whether deregulations are beneficial or harmful to the economy has been widely debated.This paper investigates the effect...

Departing from the true process of translatio studii that we can find in the own roots of the connection established between philosophy and nature in the bosom of the XIIIth century European thought through the introduction in Paris via the Arabic Spain of works of Aristotle such as Physics,...

Thailand and Egypt have seen some striking parallels in the past few years, culminating in military overthrows of elected governments, acts which were widely supported by the middle classes. This paper examines middle class thinking behind opposition to the governments, and subsequent support...

More than 628.8 million people aged 18-34 years have a Facebook account. After more than a decade of functioning of the social networking site, its further development is dependent, inter alia, of user loyalty and willingness to continue actively use this tool of communication. Popularity portal...

This paper critically reviews Dawkins’s article entitled “Teaching Punctuation as a Rhetorical Tool”. The main argument of this Dawkins’s article is: if good writers punctuate effectively without paying any attention to handbooks rules, there should be a system worth teaching. His...

Literature is an important component of a community’s culture.The relationship between literature and culture is a complex one: literature shapes a given culture and in turn is shaped by it. A literary piece of work is not the solitary production of the writer whose sole incitement is...

Within the field of education, the fostering of learner autonomy has become an essential element of modern pedagogy and an established object of research. The Self-Access Learning Centre (SALC) at Kanda University of International Studies in Chiba, Japan, offers a range of self-study modules,...