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What does the Dow Jones Sustainability Group Index really tell Us?
(2001)Quite often the Dow Jones Sustainability Group Index (DJSGI), which identifies and keeps tracks on the performance of the sustainable driven companies, is referred to as an evidence of that integration of economic, ... -
ARE ALL SCALES OPTIMAL IN DEA? THEORY AND EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE
(2002)Policy recommendations concerning optimal scale of production units often have serious implications for the restructuring of a sector, while tests of natural monopoly have important implications for regulatory structure. ... -
Aid and Economic Development in Africa
(2006)The question discussed in this in this paper is whether foreign aid can help accelerate growth in African countries. The paper reviews growth determinants and growth constraints in Africa and discusses how aid can help ... -
Decomposed Effects of Democracy on Economic Freedom
(2002)Many previous empirical studies conclude that democracy increases economic freedom. However, these studies use highly aggregated indices of economic freedom, which eliminate interesting information and obstruct policy ... -
Visioner om kommunala framtider
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Can China’s Growth be Sustained? A Productivity Perspective
(2006)China’s unorthodox approach to economic transition has resulted in sustained high growth. However, in recent years Chinese economists have increasingly referred to the growth pattern as “extensive”, generated mainly through ... -
Trade Union Membership and Earnings in Kenyan Manufacturing Firms
(2001)This paper analyses the effect of trade unions on earnings in Kenyan manufacturing using a switching regression model, which takes into account endogeneity of union status of workers. In contrast to earlier studies of the ... -
Business on Their Minds. - How Experts in Investment Banks Organise Their Work
(2002)In discussions about the society of today, an important role is often attributed professions. However, expert knowledge is nowadays described as more fragmented than earlier, and the new ‘free experts' show differences as ... -
Why Does Technology Advance in Cycles?
(2001)Long-run technological progress is cyclical because drastic innovations that introduce new technological opportunity are only profitable at times when repeated incremental innovation has nearly exhausted existing technological ... -
The Digital Invisibility of Broadband and its Representation in the Modern City
(2001)City managers in several cities have tried to market their city related to information technology; i.e. Osaka as a city of intelligence, Barcelona as a city of telematics, Amsterdam as a city of information, Manchester as ... -
Communities of Distance Education
(2002)Distance Education (DE) is the centre of attention for many educational organisations and recently many innovative examples of flexible educational designs that make use of the new information and communication technologies ... -
THE EFFECT OF CIGARETTE PRICES AND ANTISMOKING POLICIES ON THE AGE OF SMOKING INITIATION
(2001)This study differs from most previous studies on smoking initiation by studying the age of smoking onset, and not merely smoking initiation. We apply duration analysis to estimate the determinants of the age of smoking ... -
Choosing from Behind a Veil of Ignorance in India
(2002)Social inequality aversion is measured through a veil-of-ignorance experiment with Indian students. The median relative risk aversion is found to be quite high, about 3, and independent caste. -
Should We Use Distributional Weights in CBA When Income Taxes Can Deal with Equity?
(2001)Kaplow (1996) and others argue forcefully in favor of using the standard cost-benefit test alone, without any distributional concern, given "standard simplifying assumptions." This paper, on the contrary, ... -
Managers work with words - an introduction
(2001)This report tries to establish a theoretical position on the problem of dealing with contradictory goals in organisations. Our most prominent theories point to `sequential attention to alternatives' or `sequential attention ... -
How Much Do We Care About Absolute Versus Relative Income and Consumption?
(2001)We find, using survey-experimental methods, that most individuals are concerned with both relative income and relative consumption of particular goods. The degree of concern varies in the expected direction depending on ... -
Recruiting for Sustainability. Administration or development?
(2001)Sustainability is a complex concept involving disparate issues of environmental, social and economical significance. To work towards sustainability, we need both technological and social skills. Several studies on environmental ...