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Accounting for Unobserved Country Heterogeneity in Happiness Research: Country Fixed Effects versus Region Fixed Effects [PDF]
Many empirical studies are ambiguous about whether good formal institutions are conducive to subjective well-being or not. Possibly, this ambiguity is caused by cross-section models that do not account for unobserved cultural and institutional effects ...
Fischer, Justina AV
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Gateways, Funnels, and Stackers: How People Hide Property Ownership Through Offshore Structures
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How do wealthy individuals use offshore financial structures like shell companies to protect personal assets? And how is such offshore wealth structuring itself variably organized? Moving beyond conceptualizations of offshore as concerning only individual tax havens, this article investigates offshore wealth structuring as a fundamentally ...
Kristin Surak, Johnathan Inkley
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Market orientation and national homicide rates
Criminology, EarlyView.Abstract We studied the influence of market orientation on national homicide rates. Multiple theoretical traditions equate the development and dominance of markets with higher crime rates. Some traditional sociological theoretical claims, however, suggest market expansion should reduce violence.
William Alex Pridemore, Meghan L. Rogers
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Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Starting with the Facebook‐Cambridge Analytica scandal and its link to Brexit and the 2016 US elections, the nexus among online political advertising, micro‐targeting, and data‐driven electoral campaigning has revealed its disruptive potential for democracies.
Enea Fiore +2 more
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Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Amid shifting geopolitical tensions, the notion of “research security” has become an increasingly prominent concern in science policy. This paper analyzes how research security is framed and operationalized in Germany and the United States using discourse analysis and securitization theory.
Nicolas V. Rüffin +3 more
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Human Capital and FDI in Central and Eastern Europe [PDF]
Managing Global Transitions, 2015 The aim of this paper is to assess the role of human capital in attracting FDI in the light of selected empirical studies conducted in Poland and globally.
Agnieszka Dorozynska, Tomasz Dorozynski
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Risk, Government and Globalization: International Survey Evidence [PDF]
This paper uses international survey data to document two stylized facts. First, risk aversion is associated with anti-trade attitudes. Second, this effect is smaller in countries with greater levels of government expenditure.
Anna Maria Mayda +2 more
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The impact of domestic political challenges towards the accession of Bulgaria to the European Union in January 2007 [PDF]
, 2008 The following research report will look at a series of domestic factors that posed a threat to Bulgaria’s integration into the European Union in January 2007.
Tassev, Valentin
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Regional monetary integration in the member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council [PDF]
The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) plans to introduce a single currency by 2010 in its six member states, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE. This paper focuses on selected macroeconomic and institutional issues and key policy choices
Michael Sturm, Nikolaus Siegfried
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Political Ambition and Legislative Behavior in the European Parliament [PDF]
, 2007 Members of the European Parliament (MEP) typically follow one of two career paths, either advancing within the European Parliament itself or returning to higher office in their home states.
Bernhard, William T. +2 more
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