There are debates around the legitimacy of capital punishment, i.e., whether death could serve as a proper execution in our legal system or not. Different arguments have been raised. However, none of them seem able to provide a determined answer to the issue; this results in a lack of instruction in the legal practice. This article, therefore, devotes itself to the effort to find such an answer...

BACKGROUND Depression is a major public health problem that affects both individuals and society. Previous studies report that university teachers are particularly susceptible to high levels of occupational stress and depressive symptoms. The aims of this study were to explore the association between occupational stress and depressive symptoms in a group of university teachers, and assess the m...

M any occupations are subject to learning by doing: Effort at the workplace early in the career of a worker results in higher productivity later on.1 In such occupations, if effort at work is unobservable, a moral hazard problem arises as well. The combination of these two characteristics of effort implies that employers need to provide incentives for the employee to work hard, possibly in the ...

This paper develops a structural, dynamic model of a banking firm to analyse how banks adjust their loan portfolios over time. In the model, banks experience capital shocks, face uncertain future loan demand, and incur costs based on their proximity to regulatory minimum capital requirements. Non-linear relationships between bank capital levels and lending are derived from the model, and key pa...

OBJECTIVE This study proposes a model explaining how social capital helps ease excessively required mental effort. BACKGROUND Although organizational researchers have studied both social capital and cognitive load, no prior research has critically examined the role of social capital in improving individuals' mental load and effort and consequently enhancing job learning effectiveness. METHO...

Although theoretically necessary, social capital is not considered within the process of asset allocation for private investors. Both the lack of appropriate practical valuation concepts and the effort of providing and processing the required information as input for a valuation were obstacles to include social capital in this process. However, first theoretical financial models for the evaluat...

This is a draft version of a contribution to the conference volume following the 1999 SCALE conference on social capital (Amsterdam, december 9-11). It presents a conceptual approach to the measurement of social capital as defined on the level of individuals, with the aim to develop a yardstick for social capital that can be used in prospective studies investigating its productivity and goal sp...

We consider the motivations of a customer-facing focal firm in a supply network regarding a choice between options for production methods and project direction. One option is purely economic, but with a negative social impact, while the other is a socially responsible alternative that entails a lower rate of economic return. In our game-theoretic analysis, the focal firm faces twin pressures: e...

Past research suggests Facebook use is linked to perceptions of social capital, a concept that taps into the resources people gain from interactions with their social network. In this study, we examine a sample of public Facebook status updates (N=20,000) for instances in which users request a response from their network. These attempts to mobilize resources offer insight into the mechanisms th...