Although during the last decades the importance of stock markets has increased in all OECD countries, the cross-country differences appear to be remarkably stable. In this paper we relate the factors determining cross-country differences in stock market activity to deeply rooted norms and values in the society, which are represented by the position of countries on cultural dimensions. Stock mar...

In the past twenty-five years, egalitarian political philosophers have acknowledged the importance of injecting personal responsibility into egalitarian theory. In brief, the ethically attractive objective is to equalize opportunities for desirable conditions, such as health and earning capacity, rather than equalizing health status or earning capacities, across the members of a society. I prop...

Nutritional assessment by diet analysis is a two-stepped process consisting of evaluation of food consumption, and conversion of food into nutrient intake by using a food composition database, which lists the mean nutritional values for a given food portion. Most reports in the literature focus on minimizing errors in estimation of food consumption but the selection of a specific food compositi...

The Industry 4.0 idea influences the development of both charging stations and electromobility development, due to its emphasis on device communication, cooperation, proximity. Therefore, in growing attention is paid chargers’ infrastructure density automotive electric vehicles’ accessibility. main goal this scientific paper was present represented number calculations. In study, sequence method...

The present study attempts to answer the question, which is not considered in United Nations’ annual Human Development Reports, namely, how spatial patterns of world countries differ terms human development indices. quantitative research includes three phases. First, functional relations between indices were analysed based on Moran’s I and data fitted by linear regression. Second, clustering re...

We examine the effect of corruption control on volatility economic growth using cross-country data that cover 131 economies worldwide for period 1985–2018. To estimate model, we employ system generalized method-of-moments estimator dynamic panel data, which addresses potential endogeneity concerns internal instruments. Our results show significantly reduces volatility. This is robust to control...