Does the Idea of a Segmentary System Help to Explain Political Conflict?
The concept of segmentation does not imply structural dimensions per se. Segmentation, as it is technically understood, involves a unit-whole formed by unit-parts. Nevertheless,...
Does Economic Growth Alleviate Poverty in Developing Countries?
Poverty alleviation has implied an important goal for developing countries and policy-makers throughout the last century. Recently, organisations such as the United Nations and...
Must We Confine Our Research to a Paradigm? Integrating Long-Standing Methodological Paradigms
Long-standing tensions between quantitative and qualitative research are far common issues in the social sciences research. The debate centres on the perception of the...
The Domino’s Effect of International Business Cycles
Business cycles are common phenomena in the countries’ economy, implying a puzzling pattern that behavioural economists try to study and forecast.
What is known as...
Is Shame Universally Associated with Poverty? An In-Depth Analysis on the Last Empirical Insight
Poverty alleviation has implied an important goal for developing countries and policy-makers in the last century. Recently, organisations such as the United Nations or...
Do Prejudiced Thoughts Influence Individuals’ Political Behaviour?
In light of an unprecedented electoral success of right-wing populist parties in comparison with that of historical legacies of fascism parties in Great Britain...
Are Free-Floating Exchange Rate Regimes Advantageous or Disadvantageous for International Trade Growth?
In light of the termination of the US dollar convertibility to gold (end of the Breton Woods exchange rate system, 1971-73), there has been...
Why We Fail in Energy-Saving?
Behavioural evidence identifies barriers such as procrastination to be potential determinants for an environmentally-friendly behaviour (Grubb et al., 2009). In this line, McNamara &...
The Potential Role of Behavioural Economics for the 2017 German G-20 Presidency
The Federal Republic of Germany assumed last December the 2017 presidency of the G-20, after China held the 2016 presidency since December 2015. Proposed...
Lessons from the Particular Trade Relationship between Canada and the US
Canada is the US’ 1st trading partner (US Department of Commerce, 2015). In fact, US export and import values to/from Canada was $242 and...