• New blockchain intermediaries: do ICO rating websites do their job well? 

  Boreiko D; Vidusso G (2019)

  The Fintech revolution, crowdfunding and blockchain-based funding have dramatically reduced borrowing and lending transaction costs. Many have argued that ultimately this should lead to the complete disintermediation of ...
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  Hierarchical dyadic congruence in family firms: The interplay of supervisor and supervisee socioemotional wealth importance and familial status 

  Campopiano G; Rondi E (2019)

  We extend McLarty, Vardaman, and Barnett’s analysis of how family firm supervisor attributes, in terms of familial status and socioemotional wealth importance, affect supervisee performance by considering the supervisee ...
• Incentivizing organ donation through a nonmonetary posthumous award 

  Bedendo M; Siming L (WILEY, 2019)

  Since 2013, The Order of St John Award for Organ Donation has been offered to the families of deceased solid organ donors in the United Kingdom to honor the donors and inspire others to donate. We evaluate the effects of ...
• Polen als erster Anwendungsfall des neuen "EU Rahmens zur Stärkung des Rechtsstaatsprinzips" 

  Hofmeister H (2016)

  Seitdem die neue polnische Regierung die Amtsgeschäfte übernommen hat, wird der Staat konsequent "umstrukturiert". Im Zentrum stehen dabei die Reform des Verfassungsgerichts sowie der öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunkanstalten. ...
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  Exploring the dynamics of business survey data using Markov models 

  Hoelzl W; Kaniovski S; Kaniovski Y (2019)

  Business tendency surveys are widely used for monitoring economic activity. They provide timely feedback on the current business conditions and outlook. We identify the unobserved macroeconomic factors behind the distribution ...
• The Economics of Gossip and Collective Reputation 

  Boffa F; Castriota S (Oxford University Press, 2019)

  This chapter deals with reputation with a strong focus on the reputation of firms—groups or coalitions. To that end, the chapter heavily draws on the economic literature. The first section illustrates the three main sources ...
• Zambon: tradizione e innovazione 

  Grasso C; Di Minin A; De Massis A (Egea, 2019)
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  Political institutions and central bank independence revisited 

  Pistoresi B; Salsano F; Ferrari D (Taylor & Francis, 2011)

  We build on earlier studies regarding Central Bank Independence (CBI) by relating it to political, institutional and economic variables. The data suggest that CBI is positively related to the presence of federalism, the ...
• Mimetic politics: Dyadic patterns in global politics 

  Farneti R (Michigan State University Press, 2015)

  War, violence, and the disruption of social orders are critical areas of focus in mimetic theory, and a mimetic perspective applied to the study of politics illuminates social processes and phenomena over and beyond typical ...
• How accountability type influences information search processes and decision quality 

  Dalla Via N; Perego P; van Rinsum M (2019)

  This study investigates how accountability type (process or outcome) and causal chain framing influence information search processes and decision-making quality. Drawing on the accountability literature and causal reasoning ...
• Cultural and environmental assets in rural destination competitiveness 

  Osti L (Springer Gabler, 2019)

  In the present postmodern era, where tourists are looking for multiple experiences that embrace different and sometimes conflicting values, rural tourism is becoming increasingly heterogeneous, offering, in addition to ...
• Determinants of conflict minerals disclosure under the Dodd-Frank Act 

  Dalla Via N; Perego P (2018)

  This paper examines conflict minerals disclosure (CMD) as mandated by the Dodd–Frank Act. We rely on a thorough content analysis conducted by the Responsible Sourcing Network on a sample of 122 firms that filed CMDs with ...
• Can Immigrants Insure against Shocks as well as the Native-born? 

  Islam A; Stillman S; Worswick C (2018)

  We examine the impact of job displacement and serious health problems on multiple measures of individual and household well-being using longitudinal data. We extend the previous literature by examining whether these shocks ...
• Inflation forecasts extracted from nominal and real yield curves 

  Geyer A; Hanke M; Weissensteiner A (2016)

  The aim of this paper is to evaluate the performance of inflation forecasts backed out from the nominal and real yield curves in the United Kingdom. We use the Nelson–Siegel (NS) framework to model the break-even inflation ...
• The Effect of Preference Similarity on the Formation of Clusters and the Connectivity of Social Networks 

  Tavana M; Santos-Arteaga FJ; Di Caprio D (2017)

  The current paper analyzes the formation of social networks determined by the preferences of their users, who are endowed with incomplete information regarding the characteristics of other users from who they receive ...
• Percutaneous real-time sonoelastography as a non-invasive tool for the characterization of solid focal liver lesions: A prospective study 

  Cesario V; Accogli E; Domanico A; Di Lascio FML; Napoleone L; Gasbarrini A; Arienti V (2016)

  Background: Real-time sonoelastography is currently used for the characterization of superficial solid lesions such as thyroid and breast masses. This study evaluates the usefulness of percutaneous sonoelastography for the ...
• A Discrete Cuckoo Optimization Algorithm for Consolidation in Cloud Computing 

  Tavana M; Shahdi-Pashaki S; Teymourian E; Santos-Arteaga FJ; Komaki M (2018)

  Consolidation problems in cloud computing (CC) encompass server consolidation, virtual machine (VM) consolidation, and task consolidation. These problems have become increasingly challenging for resource allocation in ...
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  Intensive and Extensive Margins of Mining and Development: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa 

  Mamo N; Bhattacharyya S; Moradi A (2019)

  What are the economic consequences of mining in Sub-Saharan Africa? Using a panel of 3,635 districts from 42 Sub-Saharan African countries for the period 1992 to 2012 we investigate the effects of mining on living standards ...
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  Can Faith Move Mountains? The impact of entrepreneurial ambition on the success of new ventures 

  Linder C; Nippa M (2017)

  Our paper addresses individual abilities and motivational factors of entrepreneurs by investigating whether and how variations in the ambition to become an entrepreneur may impact subsequent entrepreneurial success. Utilizing ...
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  Metrics on Restaurant Ordering Behavior 

  Schamel G (AAWE, 2016)

  Purpose of the paper is to empirically analyze the effect of an initial choice made by the first person (or the leader) on the ordering behavior of other diners on a restaurant table. We measure the similarity and price ...

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