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Avoiding the Next Crisis: Breaking Down the Risks of Financial Firms
Julia Schaumburg
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Let us assess the breakdown risk of a building. Most of us would consider specific individual...
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Goodbye, Mediterranean Diet?
Mario Mazzocchi
University of Bologna
Books on healthy diets are among the fastest moving items in bookshops — everybody wants to eat...
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Russians Living in the Former Soviet Union Countries: Unethical and Dishonest Employees?
Krista Jaakson and Maaja Vadi
University of Tartu
In 1970, Lance Shotland and Wallace Berger made an experiment to link individual values to actual...
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Multicultural Cities: With or Without Your Ethnic Fellows?
Alexander Danzer
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich
Little China in London, Little Surinam in Amsterdam, Little Turkey in Berlin? Ethnic clustering of...
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Taxing “Alcohol Tourism” in the EU
Indrek Saar
University of Tartu
According to the World Health Organization, 2.5 million people die each year because of the harmful...
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“Nature or nurture? The impact of policy and geography in economic prosperity
Ana M. Lopez Garcia and Coro Chasco
Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (UAM)
Where and how are cities growing across the European Union?" In recent years, experts have shown a...
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Dolls, Candy and Mechanism Design Theory
Tommy Andersson
Lund University
Decision makers – including individuals, companies, governments, etc. – are often faced with the...
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Of fat times and thin
Mario Mazzocchi
University of Bologna
Economists do not expect thin times ahead. Unfortunately, this prediction does not herald the end...
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Extraordinary food safety crises and the madness of cows
Mario Mazzocchi
University of Bologna
There are some striking common patterns in consumer response to the food scares which hit Europe...