International Journal of Social Economics: Volume 34 Issue 11

Economic factors and psychiatric hospital beds – an analysis of historical trends

Alfonso Ceccherini‐Nelli, Stefan Priebe

The purpose of this paper is to explore the association between economic factors (consumer price index, real gross domestic product per capita, base discount rate, and rate of…

Governance and CEO pay and performance in non‐profit organizations

Carlos Pestana Barros, Francisco Nunes

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the pay and performance of chief executive officers (CEOs) in Portuguese, non‐profit organizations (NPOs), focusing on the role played by…

Ideals in sequential bargaining structures

Ana Paula Martins

The purpose of this paper is to suggest possible extensions of the baseline Rubinstein sequential bargaining structure – applied to the negotiation of stationary infinitely termed…

Is relative income of overriding importance for individuals?

Kenneth V. Greene, Phillip J. Nelson

The purpose of this paper is to reexamine the idea currently rampant in the mainstream economics literature that it is relative rather than real income that is of most importance…

Confidence Games: Money and Markets in a World without Redemption

Martin Shubik

Special issue Kant scholarship and the economics of governance and regulation

Special issue on China