Summary of JOIE article ( 27 August 2024) by Gustavo Magalhães de Oliveira, Institute for Food and Resource Economics, University of Bonn and Bruno Varella Miranda, Insper Institute of Education and Research, São Paulo, Brazil. The full article is available on the JOIE website. When you think of Brazil, vibrant festivals and stunning landscapes often come…
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Regional financial disparity in India: can it be measured?
Summary of JOIE article ( 12 May 2021) by Rashmi Arora and P. B. Anand, Faculty of Management, Law & Social Sciences, University of Bradford, Bradford, UK. The full article is available on the JOIE website. Recent discussions on inequality have focused on increasing global income and wealth inequality between individuals, inequality between countries and inequality among…
Location choice and Indian outward FDI: institutional quality vs institutional distance
Summary of JOIE article ( 11 December 2023) by Rishika Nayyar, University of Sussex Business School, Brighton, UK, and John Luiz, University of Sussex Business School and University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa. The full article is available on the JOIE website. Institutions exert an important influence on foreign direct investment (FDI) location choice – that is…
Determinants of Social Norms I – the Role of Geography
Summary of JOIE Article (07 December 2023) by Stefan Voigt, Institute of Law & Economics, University of Hamburg, Germany. The full article is available on the JOIE website. For a long time, scholars in institutional economics were primarily concerned with formal institutions such as state-made and -enforced laws. This has completely changed over the last…
The role of social aversion in the motivations for tax law compliance
Summary of JOIE article ( 03 May 2023) by Karnit Malka Tiv, Law School, Zefat Academic College, Zefat, Israel and Law School, Netanya Academic College, Netanya, Israel. The full article is available on the JOIE website. Deterrence has always played an important part in court decisions pertaining to tax offenses. In this respect, many decisions…
Foreigner kings as local kingmakers: how the ‘unusual’ marginalization of conservative political groups occurred in pre-Industrial Revolution Britain
Summary of JOIE article ( 09 March 2023) by Mario Yamada, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA. The full article is available on the JOIE website. In this article, I provide an explanation of how the conservative Tory elites in England/Britain in the period before the Industrial Revolution were politically marginalized, creating political and economic spaces…
‘It was organized from the bottom’: the response from community-based institutions during the 2014 Ebola epidemic
Summary of JOIE article ( 03 April 2023) by Sabine Iva Franklin, The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. The full article is available on the JOIE website. As we approach the 10-year anniversary of the West African Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) Epidemic and now…
Disruptive innovation in the economic organization of China and the West
Summary of JOIE article ( 21 September 2022) by Hilton L. Root, Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University, Arlington, VA, USA. The full article is available on the JOIE website In this article I explore the influence of network design (topology) on the larger organizational structures of the historical regimes of China and…
Managing repugnance: How core-stigma shapes firm behavior
Summary of JOIE article (22 November 2022) by Erwin Dekker, Mercatus Center at George Mason University, Fairfax, The United States, and Julien Gradoz, Clersé, Université de Lille, Lille, France. The full article is available on the JOIE website. In the United States, marijuana has been legalized in several states. But many banks, nonetheless, refuse to let entrepreneurs in…
Integrating the exploration-exploitation dilemma and bad institutions to the Austrian theory of destructive entrepreneurship: a new perspective.
Summary of JOIE article (6 January 2023) by Thierry Aimar, Faculty of Law and Economics, University of Lorraine, France. The full article is available on the JOIE website. The objective of the article is to show that the integration of the exploration-exploitation dilemma into the Austrian theory adds new fruitful elements to the function of…