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The Relationship Between Sociodemographics and Environmental Values Across Seven European Countries

Frontiers in Psychology, 2020
Given the importance of environmental values (altruistic, biospheric, and egoistic) to pro-environmental behavior, it would be useful to segment the population – an approach known as market segmentation – to tailor pro-environmental messages more ...
Rebecca J. Sargisson, Rebecca J. Sargisson, Judith I. M. De Groot, Linda Steg   +3 more
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Acquiring Financial Support for Children’s Sports Participation: Co-Creating a Socially Safe Environment for Parents from Low-Income Families

Children, 2023
Despite the many benefits of club-organized sports participation for children, sports participation is lower among children from low-income families than among those from middle- or high-income families.
Lonneke van Leeuwen, Angelique Ruiter, Kirsten Visser, Heidi M. B. Lesscher, Merel Jonker   +4 more
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The effect of preferential trading arrangements on foreign direct investment activity:Empirical evidence from the African, Caribbean and Pacific group [PDF]

, 2017
In this paper we add to a relatively small literature on FDI in the ACP group by focusing on the role of PTAs in attracting FDI. Our empirical analysis utilises panel data on bilateral FDI stocks from 34 OECD countries into 45 ACP countries over the ...
Falvey, Rodney, Gounder, Aruna, Rajaguru, Gulasekaran   +2 more
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Examining the role of civic attitudes in the link between family wealth and school dropout among tertiary vocational students

npj Science of Learning, 2023
This study examined the relationship between family wealth and school dropout among vocational education students (n = 1,231; mean age=17.81). It investigated whether (1) family affluence and adolescents’ own perceptions and experiences of their family ...
Catrin Finkenauer, Maartje Boer, Jenna Spitzer, Dominic Weinberg, Kirsten Visser, Merel Jonker, Gonneke W. J. M. Stevens   +6 more
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An Introduction to the Special Issue on “Behavioural Economics, Consumer Policy, and Consumer Law” [PDF]

Journal of Consumer Policy, 2011
European consumer policy—coupled with the European Economic Constitution and European consumer law—is based on an assumption of rational-acting consumers and suppliers and is deeply rooted in the information paradigm. The information paradigm indicates that asymmetric information can be an impediment to welfare-enhancing consumer decision making.
NA, NA, Micklitz, Hans-W., Reisch, Lucia A., Hagen, Kornelia   +3 more
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Current and Future Friends of the Earth: Assessing Cross-National Theories of Environmental Attitudes

Energies, 2015
Empirical studies of public opinion on environmental protection have typically been grounded in Inglehart’s post-materialism thesis, proposing that societal affluence encourages materially-sated publics to look beyond their interests and value the ...
Karen Stenner, Zim Nwokora
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Corporate governance, Islamic governance and earnings management in Oman: A new empirical insights from a behavioural theoretical framework [PDF]

, 2017
Purpose: This paper examines the impact of corporate (CG) and Islamic (IG) governance mechanisms on corporate earnings management (EM) behaviour in Oman.
Avison, Lynn, Elghuweel, Mohamed I., Ntim, Collins G., Opong, Kwaku K.   +3 more
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Law and economic behaviour

Journal of Comparative Economics
Preferences play a key role in economic models as drivers of behaviour. Recent contributions have started to model preferences as endogenously determined. This creates two fundamental issues for empirical research. The first concerns the determinants of preferences.
Bouchouicha, Ranoua, L’haridon, Olivier, Vieider, Ferdinand   +2 more
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Behavioural Economics and its Implications on Regulatory Law [PDF]

International and Comparative Law Review, 2015
Abstract The aim of this article is to analyse the possible implications of behavioural economics on regulatory law and government policy. In order to do so it first introduces and in short describe the current trends in behavioural economics through a quick look into the aim and history of this relatively new and innovative field of ...
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Consumer Inertia, the New Economy and EU Competition Law

Market and Competition Law Review, 2018
Services and goods in the new economy, such as social media platforms and applications, are often offered to end-consumers for “free”. This may cause problems for the application of traditional antitrust doctrines, such as tying or other forms of ...
Vladimir Bastidas Venegas
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