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Micro-entrepreneurship and subjective well-being: Evidence from rural Bangladesh (2018)
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© 2019 The Authors Microcredit has long been hailed as a powerful tool to promote livelihoods and reduce poverty through entrepreneurship. However, its impacts on people's subjective well-being remain underexplored. We present a unified theoretical f... Read More about Micro-entrepreneurship and subjective well-being: Evidence from rural Bangladesh.

Determinants of investment in Turkey: A firm-level investigation (2018)
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In this article, we analyze the financing constraints-investment link for the case of Turkey between 1996 and 2013. As different from the existing studies on Turkey, we use a more comprehensive data set that includes both publicly-traded and privatel... Read More about Determinants of investment in Turkey: A firm-level investigation.

How does petty corruption affect tax morale in Sub-Saharan Africa? (2018)
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Revenues from taxation gain in importance to finance economic development in Sub-Saharan Africa. One obstacle to enhancing the willingness to remit taxes can be the extortion of bribes by public officials. Using micro-level data from the Afrobaromete... Read More about How does petty corruption affect tax morale in Sub-Saharan Africa?.

The price of mobility: How personality and preferences shape the mobility premium of university graduates (2018)
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This paper addresses the question concerning the price of geographic mobility in various labour market and migration scenarios. Pivotal points are expected mobility premiums which are sufficient to tip the scales in favour of moving to a geographical... Read More about The price of mobility: How personality and preferences shape the mobility premium of university graduates.

Agent-based macroeconomics and dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models: Where do we go from here? (2018)
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© 2018 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Agent-based computational economics (ACE) has been used for tackling major research questions in macroeconomics for at least two decades. This growing field positions itself as an alternative to dynamic stochastic gene... Read More about Agent-based macroeconomics and dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models: Where do we go from here?.

The dynamics of industrial development in a resource-rich developing society: A political economy analysis (2018)
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© 2018 SAGE Publications. This article criticizes the resource curse thesis for neglecting the interplay of international factors and domestic politics, that is the political settlement, in explaining industrial performance in a resource-dependent so... Read More about The dynamics of industrial development in a resource-rich developing society: A political economy analysis.

The development of accounting practices and the adoption of IFRS in selected MENA countries (2018)
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Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the level of accounting development and the adoption of IFRS in the four foremost economies in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)—Egypt, Jordan, Libya and UAE. Through the lens of institutional th... Read More about The development of accounting practices and the adoption of IFRS in selected MENA countries.

Exploring our latent potential (2018)
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© 2018 The Author/s and IPPR. Moving towards an economy of freedom.

Emigration, remittances, and the subjective well-being of those staying behind (2018)
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© 2018, The Author(s). We offer the first global perspective on the well-being consequences of emigration for those staying behind using several subjective well-being measures (evaluations of best possible life, positive affect, stress, and depressio... Read More about Emigration, remittances, and the subjective well-being of those staying behind.

Cents and sensibility – what economics can learn from the humanities, by Gary Saul Morson and Morton Schapiro, Princeton University Press: 2017, pp. 307; ISBN 978-0-691-17668-0 (2018)
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Cents and sensibility – what economics can learn from the humanities, by Gary Saul Morson and Morton Schapiro, Princeton University Press: 2017, pp. 307; ISBN 978-0-691-17668-0