OBJECTIVES Studies investigating whether smoking increases or decreases during economic downturn provided contrasting results. For the first time, we used direct questions to analyse changes in smoking behaviour due to the 2008 financial crisis, comparing socio-economic characteristics of smokers who changed with those who kept their smoking intensity. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional survey. M...

The article deals with the economic behaviour of a hypothetical political leader in the institutionally underdeveloped democratic environment of a transitional society. By using Stigler-Peltzman’s model of economic regulation, it has been shown that there is no optimal solution for an autocratic leader. In the long run, wealth transfer to political supporters alone is not sufficient for the aut...

Corporate Socially Responsible (CSR) behaviour is a necessary prerequisite of global economic activity and makes this as a different perspective. In this paper, the author’s argument is based upon developments in several countries and special reference is given to UK and Portugal. Responsible behaviour of enterprises should consider innovative forms to present its reports, because is more attra...

We present a discrete choice model of consumption that incorporates two empirically validated aspects of consumer behaviour: inertia in consumption and interaction among consumers. We specify the interaction structure as a regular lattice with consumers interacting only with immediate neighbours. We investigate the equilibrium behaviour of the resulting system and show analytically that for a l...

Evolutionary understanding of behaviour of firms is gradually becoming more accepted in a variety of disciplines such as economics, management and organization. Contributing to a multidisciplinary understanding of strategic behaviour, this paper analyzes foreign direct investment strategies of US firms in Europe since the second world war. Taking routinized investment behaviour, satisficing str...

OBJECTIVE To examine whether the association between soft drinks consumption and child behaviour problems differs by food security status and sleep patterns in young children. DESIGN Cross-sectional observational data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (FFCWS), which collected information on food insecurity, soft drinks consumption, sleep patterns and child behaviour problems...

This paper sets out a formal framework for the biological-evolutionary study of human economic behaviour. Femina economica is a hypothetical parthenogenetic species with a simple economy. Individuals make decisions about labour supply and fertility subject to time and resource constraints. Labour is of differing types and a parent determines the type of her offspring's labour. Wages are determi...

OBJECTIVE To examine the associations between the 2008 economic collapse in Iceland and smoking behaviour at the national and individual levels. DESIGN A population-based, prospective cohort study based on a mail survey (Health and Wellbeing in Iceland) assessed in 2007 and 2009. SETTING National mail survey. PARTICIPANTS Representative cohort (n=3755) of Icelandic adults. MAIN OUTCOME ...

Property relation management of the (ownership, disposable, using) limited resources, which naturally occurs in the economic systems, face a problem uncertainty behavior of its active elements. The model of identification and forecasting of the economic system trajectory states in time is offered in work, which allows complex estimation its conduct from positions of risk (additive distributing)...