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Ben Bernanke and the Zero Bound [PDF]

open access: yes
From 2000 to 2003, when Ben Bernanke was a professor and then a Fed Governor, he wrote extensively about monetary policy at the zero bound on interest rates.
Laurence Ball
core   +3 more sources

The importance of poverty early in childhood [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Introduction: Using a poverty line set at 60% of New Zealand’s median national income, nearly one in five New Zealand children (19%) was poor in 2011. This poverty rate is considerably less than that of the United States and Canada, similar to that of ...
Greg J. Duncan, Katherine Magnuson
core   +2 more sources

School readiness and the good level of development: Policy constructions in English early childhood education

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper critically analyses how school readiness has been historically and discursively constructed in Early Childhood Education (ECE) policy in England over the past four decades. Using Bacchi's ‘What's the Problem Represented to be?’ framework and Foucauldian concepts of governmentality, the paper explores how school readiness has shifted
Louise Kay
wiley   +1 more source

KNOWLEDGE IS POWER. IMPROVING TAX COMPLIANCE BY MEANS OF BOOSTING TAX LITERACY [PDF]

open access: yesAnnals of the University of Oradea: Economic Science, 2015
Because empirical investigations entailing classical tax evasion models often reported consistent deviations from perfect rationality, social scientists interested in tax behavior have extended their area of research by focusing on compliance ...
Nichita Ramona-Anca
doaj  

Assets at risk:menstrual cycle variation in the envisioned formidability of a potential sexual assailant reveals a component of threat assessment [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Situations of potential agonistic conflict demand rapid and effective deci-sion-making. The process of threat assessment includes assessments of relative fighting capacity, assessments of the likelihood of attack, and assessments of the extent to which ...
Fessler, Daniel M. T.   +2 more
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FISCAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS OF TAX EVASION

open access: yesSocio-economic relations in the digital society
The article is devoted to the study of behavioural factors that influence the decision-making of business entities and the population regarding tax evasion. The problem of tax evasion from the point of view of the influence of psychological characteristics of the individual and external economic factors on the deviant behaviour of taxpayers is ...
Oksana Posadnieva, Larysa Sidelnykova
openaire   +2 more sources

The impact of the current student loans regime on Muslim student engagement and retention in English higher education

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract There is much interest in the potential for an alternative funding system for higher education students in England to support the spiritual and worldly needs of British Muslim students. At the heart of this issue lies a tension over whether the student financing system in English HE is haram, or forbidden under Islamic (Shari'ah) law, because ...
Richard Hall   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Economic psychology - behavioural and emotional responses of taxpayer to taxation in the context of tax fairness

open access: yesJournal of Modern Science
Objectives Analysis of cognitive processes in the field of sub-actual illusions Material and methods Economic psychology is concerned with the study of consumer and economic mechanisms.
Tomasz Wołowiec   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Investor Perception of ESG in Earnings Calls

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how the communicator's role and the framing of ESG statements affect investor capital allocation in the context of earnings calls. Based on a virtual asset market experiment, the analysis identifies that the assurance and reinforcement of ESG messages have a positive effect of up to 8% on capital allocation, with especially
Felix Bachner
wiley   +1 more source

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