Policy makers use several international indices that characterize countries according to the quality of their institutions. However, no effort has been made to study how the honesty of citizens varies across countries. This paper explores the honesty among citizens across 16 countries with 1440 participants. We employ a very simple task where participants face a trade-off between the joy of eating a fine chocolate and the disutility of having a threatened self-concept because of lying. Despite the incentives to cheat, we find that individuals are mostly honest. Further, international indices that are indicative of institutional honesty are completely uncorrelated with citizens' honesty for our sample countries.

a b s t r a c tPolicy makers use several international indices that characterize countries according to the quality of their institutions. However, no effort has been made to study how the honesty of citizens varies across countries. This paper explores the honesty among citizens across 16 countries with 1440 participants. We employ a very simple task where participants face a trade-off between the joy of eating a fine chocolate and the disutility of having a threatened self-concept because of lying. Despite the incentives to cheat, we find that individuals are mostly honest. Further, international indices that are indicative of institutional honesty are completely uncorrelated with citizens' honesty for our sample countries.

The objective of this study is to examine factors affecting Indonesia’s rubber export performance to Indonesia’s 15 main trading partners after the implementation of ACFTA. This research employs Bergstrand Gravity Model (1985) using 105 observation for 15 countries from 2004 to 2010. Then, the gravity model is estimated by applying random effects (RE) model. The results show that, first, GDP per capita of Indonesia’s main trading partners have significantly positive impact on export. Surprisingly, distance has significantly positive effect on Indonesia’s rubber export. Further, Indonesia’s rubber major export destinations are the member of ACFTA, i.e. China and Singapore. Last, some of the non member countries are still potential to be Indonesia’s rubber market. Therefore, the Government of Indonesia should increase trading with them.

This research aims to analyse the regional inflation volatility in Indonesia for the period of 1999-2009 from both monetary and fiscal sides. The data employed in this study are regional panel data consisting of 275 observations picked from several publications. The method of analysis used in this study is Fixed Effect Model. The proxy of monetary side is outstanding of loans in Rupiah and Foreign Currency of commercial and rural banks by project location of Provinces, and fiscal side is local government debt. This research finds both monetary and fiscal sides have positive relationship with the inflation volatility in Indonesia. However, only monetary side which has significant impact, but fiscal side does not. This finding further shows that the regional inflation in Indonesia is still a monetary phenomenon. Therefore, the solution to controll regional inflation in Indonesia is to manage credit rationing conducting by commercial and rural banks for every province.

UMKM memiliki peranan penting dalam perkembangan perekonomian nasional dan penyerapan tenaga kerja. Proporsinya sebesar 99.99% dari keseluruhan pelaku usaha yang ada di Indonesia, hal tersebut menjadikan UMKM sebagai tulang punggung perekonomian, sehingga berperan penting dalam pembangunan dan pertumbuhan ekonomi inklusif di Indonesia (Bank Indonesia, 2015). Di era digital saat ini UMKM dituntut untuk bisa memanfaatkan peluang ekonomi dan meningkatkan daya saing. Penelitian ini menganalisis bagaimana peran sebuah UMKM berbasis digital yang bernama Maju Sukses Bersama (MSB) dalam mencapai pertumbuhan ekonomi inklusif. Pendekatan yang digunakan yaitu konsep Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), dari tujuh belas tujuan SDGs, hanya empat yang menjadi konsep penelitian ini. Metode yang digunakan yaitu analisis deskriptif-kualitatif. Pengumpulan data diperoleh melalui wawancara di Toko MSB, Salatiga. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan MSB berpotensi untuk dikembangkan dan dapat berperan dalam pertumbuhan ekonomi inklusif di Kota Salatiga. Meskipun belum sepenuhnya tercapai, namun MSB sudah mampu mengarah pada pertumbuhan ekonomi inklusif. MSB mampu berinovasi, meningkatkan peran industri dan pemanfaatan teknologi digital, menciptakan lapangan kerja yang layak. Namun banyak stakeholder yang terlibat hanya dari dalam Kota Salatiga dan peran perempuan masih terlalu rendah. Sehingga MSB belum mampu mengentaskan kesenjangan antar wilayah, dibutuhkan pengembangan ke luar Salatiga, agar dampak positif MSB juga dapat dirasakan wilayah lain.