Buscar
Emergence of a core-periphery structure in a simple dynamic model of the interbank market
(Elsevier, 2015-03)
This paper studies a simple dynamic model of interbank credit relationships. Starting from a given balance sheet structure of a banking system with a realistic distribution of bank sizes, the necessity of establishing ...
Who is collaborating with whom? Part II. Application of the methods to male and to female networks
(Elsevier, 2015-04)
The theoretical approach of the mathematical model of Social Gestalts and the corresponding methods for the 3-D visualization and animation of collaboration networks are presented in Part I. The application of these new ...
The effects of a financial transaction tax in an artificial financial market
(Springer, 2015-04)
We investigate the effects of a Financial Transaction Tax (FTT) in an order-driven artificial financial market. FTTs are meant to limit short-term speculative behavior by reducing the amount of excess liquidity in the ...
Real unit labour costs in Eurozone countries: drivers and clusters
(Springer Verlag, 2015)
We examine the trajectories of the real unit labour costs (RULCs) in a selection of Eurozone economies. Strong asymmetries in the convergence process of the RULCs and its components – real wages, capital intensity, and ...
Who is collaborating with whom? Part I. Mathematical model and methods for empirical testing
(Elsevier, 2015-04)
There are two versions in the literature of counting co-author pairs. Whereas the first version leads to a two-dimensional (2-D) power function distribution; the other version shows three-dimensional (3-D) graphs, totally ...
Catalog Competition: Theory and Experiments
(2015-09-03)
This paper studies a catalog competition game: two competing firms decide at the same
time product characteristics and prices in order to maximize profits. Since Dasgupta and
Maskin (1986) it is known that this one-shot ...
The role of ex post transparency in information transmission -An experiment
(2015-07-01)
Asymmetric information in economic relationships often provides incentives to deceive. Previous findings show that ex ante disclosure of conflicts of interest not only fails to improve these relationships but also leads ...
Comment on Lof, Mekasha, and Tarp (2014)
(Elsevier, 2015-06)
In Nowak-Lehmann et al. (2012), we used time-series methods to investigate the impact of aid on per capita GDP. Lof, Mekasha, and Tarp (LMT, 2014) criticize our econometric approach, our interpretation, and our data-handling ...
Free Trade Agreements, Institutions and the Exports of EasternPartnership Countries
(Wiley, 2015-06)
Following popular protests at home and the fall of the government, Ukraine reversed course andjoined Georgia and Moldova in signing Association Agreements in June 2014. This article hastwo main aims. First, using a gravity ...
Determinants of between-hospital variations in outcomes for patients admitted with COPD exacerbations: findings from a nationwide clinical audit (AUDIPOC) in Spain
(Wiley, 2015-02)
Background
Previous studies have demonstrated significant variability in the processes of care and outcomes of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) exacerbations. The AUDIPOC is a Spanish nationwide clinical ...