We consider a society where parents prefer boys to girls, but also value grandchildren. Parental sex selection results in a biased sex ratio that is socially ine¢ cient, due to a congestion externality in the marriage market. Improvements in selection techniques aggravate the ine¢ ciency. These results are robust to allowing prices in the marriage market, if the market is subject to frictions. ...

environmental protection has become one of the main concerns in developed economies, which is why an increasing degree of commitment in the field is required from all public and private bodies. environmental protection in firms must cease to be a secondary, barely profitable objective, involving the performance of sporadic remedial actions, and become just one more element of their organization...

Purpose The purpose of the paper is to investigate association between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and investment efficiency (INE) in Bangladeshi pharmaceutical companies explore moderating role reputation this relationship. Design/methodology/approach employs a two-step method, with stage 1 involving development theoretical model using literature's strategic framework 2 structural eq...