Why are there are increasing numbers of North Koreans inside the country willing to consume and share illegal foreign media over the last ten years, despite greater risk of capital punishment due to tighter border controls ...

Free trade is a topic of heated debate: domestic consumers and producers in the export sector advocate freer access to foreign markets and a greater variety of goods and services, whereas domestic workers and producers in ...

In the sweeping speed of digital revolution, changes of the landscape of technology may profoundly alter the very nature of place and physical factors, such as access to raw materials and ports. The question of "Does place ...

The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) invites resource-rich countries to voluntarily publish the payments they receive from corporations and open their books to the scrutiny of certified auditors. In ...

Economists are fairly unanimous in the belief that a country's institutional environment plays a significant role in determining its prospects for economic development. This view derives both from economic theory and from ...

DOES A COUNTRY'S INFLATION RATE INFLUENCE THE

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This paper shows that, consistent with Veblen's signaling-by-consuming model, rising income inequality contributes to an increase in household conspicuous consumption. We use the Consumer Expenditures Survey (CEX) and ...

THE MUNICIPAL BOND FEDERAL TAX EXEMPTION AND NATIONAL CREDIT CONDITIONS

This thesis provides some new evidence on the determinants of firm level trade policy preferences. Using a firm and country level data set covering middle and low-income countries between the years of 2006 and 2010, this ...