This paper examines legal rules covering protection of corporate shareholders and creditors, the origin of these rules, and the qual-ity of their enforcement in 49 countries. The results show that common-law countries generally have the strongest, and French-civil-law countries the weakest, legal

such a demeaning im-age of the teacher's capacities ori-ginate? How long have we been bur-dened by assumptions of ignorance and ineptitude within the teaching corps? Is Shaw to be treated as the last word on what teachers know and don't know, or do and can't do? Yesterday

to entry mode choice, one focussing on the cultural distance between countries, the other on attitudes towards uncertainty avoidance. Using a multinomial logit model and controlling for other effects, the hypotheses are tested by analyzing data on 228 entries into the United States market by acquisition

In evaluating the impact of remittances, the main subject of this report, it is important to take into account the implications of the initial decision to emigrate. This chapter will analyze the implications for migrants and origin countries of migration for economic gain from developing to high

The buying behaviour of consumers is one of the most commonly researched subjects in marketing. ‘Country of origin effect ’ (COO) is one of the key concepts casting light on the purchasing process of con-sumers. Many studies have shown that COO effect is vital for the buying process, persuasion

and anonymous referees for helpful suggestions, and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur That wealthy people live longer and have lower morbidity, on average, than do poor people has been well documented across countries, within countries at a point in time, and over time with economic growth

Gender role attitudes differ vastly across societies, and consequently it can be expected that immigrants in Europe hold different attitudes from natives. These differences may be due to the values prevalent in the origin countries of immigrants, but they are also likely to be linked to religious

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organized into a systematic set of factors that vary across studies, false-belief results cluster systematically with the exception of only a few outliers. A combined model that included age, country of origin, and four task factors (e.g., whether the task objects were transformed in order to deceive

unexamined by empiricists. In this paper, we make a first attempt at examining this issue empirically, by looking at the cross-country relationship between fiscal decentralization and corruption as measured by a number of different indices. Our estimates suggest a strong negative relationship between fiscal