This study mainly aims to explore and examine the relationship between family socio-economic status and maternal health care seeking behaviour in rural Bangladesh. This is a total of 200 eligible couples were selected from 3 villages namely Rathni, Beurjari and Udaipur of Baliadangi Upazila through simple random sampling. The selected couples were interviewed by questionnaire method. Frequency ...

Biological diversity on the planet is a result of billions of years of evolution and ecologists, such as John Maynard Smith, are using evolutionary game theory to explain the role of animal behaviour in the evolution process. Game theory, following the work of von Neumann, Morgenstern, Nash and others, is gaining support as a methodology for modelling economic behaviour. As economic activity is...

Economic agents differ from physical atoms because of the learning capability and memory, which lead to strategic behaviour. Economic agents learn how to interact and behave by modifying their behaviour when the economic environment changes. We show that business fluctuations are endogenously generated by the interaction of learning agents via the phenomenon of regenerative-coordination, i.e. a...

Weber’s very important theory on the influence of religion economic behaviour was tested in societies which belong to different cultural and religious circles. However, due various socio-political circumstances, testing theoretical-methodological framework has been largely neglected countries where Orthodox Christianity is dominant. difficulties that arose during post-socialist transformation, ...

Lending officers (LOs) assess loan applications under conditions characterized by shifts in economic climate, wavering public credibility for banks and greater industry regulation. This paper examines the extent to which, in such an economic environment, the LOs’ assessment of commercial loan applications may be defensive, and, if so, which mechanisms that may trigger defensive loan assessment ...

This paper introduces and discusses an heuristic model meant to clarify why and how economic instability may play a crucial role in a modern sophisticated monetary economy. In this model economic instability is specified in terms of structural instability rather than in the usual terms of dynamic instability. This different view of instability implies a different approach to the analysis of the...