Language shapes the speaker’s mind. This study initiatively employs a stable linguistic feature of future tense, inflectional morphology for future tense (IF), to measure the intensity of uncertainty perception, and explores the effect of uncertainty perception on a country’s entrepreneurial...

We experimentally investigate the path dependence of voluntary contributions in a public good game with heterogeneous agents who vary in their ability to increase the public good. More specifically, we analyze whether contribution norms observed in a first phase of the experiment under a...

Although there are many studies concerned with the problem of weighting composite indicators, which includes procedures for obtaining weights from expert opinion, little attention is paid to the way experts assess the weights of individual indicators or the effect that Conversion of the...

The recent developments in European and American politics have been characterized by a sharp shift towards ideological polarization. In particular, a new wave of protectionism seems to have gained momentum and is now shaping the world trade order. This paper investigates the contribution of...

This study is focused on (re)searching an answer to the question: * WHY DOES NOT THE RATIO POVERTY/WELFARE WORK as a dynamically pro-market reform indicator, into the contemporary MARKET and ECONOMY? A two stage answering-approach (as below # and ## paragraphs show) is proposed: # If (a) [simple...

We introduce a new dataset of real gross domestic product (GDP) growth and core personal consumption expenditures (PCE) inflation forecasts produced by the staff of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. In contrast to the eight Greenbook forecasts a year the staff produces for...

The success of the scientific community challenges in many ways our theories of social cooperation and public goods production. It is a very large scale, decentralized, international organization lacking any central management or a formalized legislative or rule-enforcement body. Even the...

Technology is becoming deeply interwoven into the fabric of society. The Internet has become a central source of information for many people when making day-to-day decisions. Here, we present a method to mine the vast data Internet users create when searching for information online, to identify...

Credit ratings agencies play an important role in the world-wide capital markets and, willingly or not, influence rather significantly the destinies of private and public financial players and their issues. Credit rating agencies invoke reputation as their most valuable asset and as guarantee...