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What Behavioural Economics Has to Say about Financial Literacy

open access: yesApplied Finance Letters, 2013
Gaps in financial literacy are arguably responsible for significant errors in decision-making by consumers and investors alike. Unlike the conventional neoclassical economic wisdom, behavioral economics opens the analytical door to the significance of ...
Morris Altman
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Reframing FDI Motivations Through OLIP: Explaining Private Engagement for Sustainable Development in PPPs

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The drivers of firms' participation in fragile markets have become increasingly complex. Under such conditions, the conventional explanation focusing on incentives within the OLI framework—ownership, location, and internalization advantages—proves insufficient.
Yu Ri Kim, Seo Yun Choi, Taewoo Roh
wiley   +1 more source

Preferences All the Way Down: Questioning the Neoclassical Foundations of Behavioral Economics and Libertarian Paternalism

open access: yesŒconomia, 2017
Behavioral economics has enriched our understanding of the limitations and imperfections of human decision-making that were neglected by the overly simplistic neoclassical model of choice.
Mark D. White
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Labor Economics [PDF]

open access: yes, 1998
The authors hypothesize that most labor economists sooner or later had to incorporate at least the appearance of institutional concerns in their papers to avoid indigestion whenever lunching with colleagues outside the field of economics They add: If ...
Boyer, George R, Smith, Robert
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Does Economic Growth Drive Equitable Water and Sanitation Access? Assessing Inequality Reduction Across 64 Nations

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines whether economic growth reduces inequalities in access to water and sanitation across 64 countries over an average period of 13.5 years. Drawing on disaggregated data by income quintiles and rural–urban location, and employing ordinary least squares (OLS), two‐stage least squares (2SLS), and Seemingly Unrelated Regression
Marcos García‐López   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Role of Global Political Economy in Community‐Based Adaptation to Climate Change—Practitioners' Experience and Opinions

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Community‐based adaptation scholars and practitioners acknowledge that power asymmetries pose significant barriers to project impact. Nevertheless, there is little research on the role of the global political economy as the root cause of vulnerability.
Tom Selje, Alexandra Klepp, Boris Heinz
wiley   +1 more source

La evolución de la historia económica desde 1950: de cliometría hasta cliodinámica

open access: yesRevista Tiempo & Economía, 2015
This paper analyzes the evolution of economic history in the last 65 years. It argues that economic history has followed a path that goes from the strictly use of standard economics applied to economic past (i.e.
Javier Mejía
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A Multiplicity of Approaches to Institutional Analysis. Applications to the Government and the Arts [PDF]

open access: yes
Four types of “economics” relevant for institutional analysis are distinguished: Standard Neoclassical Economics; Socio-Economics or Social Economics; New Institutional Economics; and Psychological Economics (often misleadingly called Behavioural ...
Bruno S. Frey
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Investor Heterogeneity, Sustainable Board Governance, and Corporate Social Responsibility Performance: Empirical Evidence From Europe

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study applies an agency‐theoretical lens to examine how investor heterogeneity, specifically institutional, foreign, and domestic ownership, influences corporate social responsibility (CSR) performance. Drawing on extensions of classical agency theory that account for heterogeneous shareholder preferences and principal‐principal conflicts,
Maximilian Focke
wiley   +1 more source

Old Institutionalism Vs. Mainstream Economics: An Intellectual [PDF]

open access: yesFaslnāmah-i Pizhūhish/Nāmah-i Iqtisādī, 2015
In the arena of Economic thought, there has always been some intellectual confrontation between the two major economic schools, i.e. Institutionalism and Neoclassical economics.
Mahmoud Mashhadi-Ahmad
doaj  

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