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    • closedAccess   Regional versus global production networks: where does Latin America stand? 

      Florensa, Luis Marcelo; Márquez-Ramos, Laura; Martinez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; Recalde, María Luisa Taylor & Francis (2015)
      This article quantifies the effects of the Latin American Integration Association (LAIA) and the Southern Common Market (Mercosur) on the trade of intermediate goods and also on the trade of final goods. It is the first ...

    • closedAccess   Regional well-being in the OECD 

      Peiró-Palomino, Jesús Springer (2018-08)
      This paper analyses convergence in well-being across 395 OECD regions in the period 2000–2014 using data from the Regional Well-being Dataset. It is widely known that well-being is a concept that ...

    • openAccess   Regionalismo, variación subnacional y gravedad: Una historia de cuatro países 

      Márquez-Ramos, Laura Asociación Española de Ciencia Regional (2016)
      This paper argues that the use of subnational data allows an accurate assessment of the effect of trade agreements on bilateral exports within a gravity model framework. We examine the effect of regional integration on ...

    • openAccess   Rehabilitation and social behavior: Experiments in prison 

      Balafoutas, Loukas; García-Gallego, Aurora; Georgantzis, Nikolaos; Jaber-Lopez, Tarek; Mitrokostas, Evangelos Elsevier (2020-01)
      Despite the economic and social significance of crime reduction and criminals’ rehabilitation, research evaluating the effects of incarceration on behavior is surprisingly scarce. We conduct an experiment with 105 prison ...

    • closedAccess   Reinforcement learning policy recommendation for interbank network stability 

      Brini, Alessio; Tedeschi, Gabriele; TANTARI, DANIELE Elsevier (2023-06-07)
      In this paper, we analyze the effect of a policy recommendation on the performance of an artificial interbank market. Financial institutions stipulate lending agreements following a public recommendation and their individual ...

    • openAccess   Relationship between logistics infraestructure and trade: Evidence from Spanish regional exports 

      Bensassi, Sami; Márquez-Ramos, Laura; Martinez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; Suárez-Burguet, Celestino Elsevier (2015-02)
      Geographical factors and transport infrastructure are two of the key determinants that influence international competitiveness. In this sense, the quality of such infrastructure and how widespread it is, the distribution ...

    • closedAccess   Relationship between spatial agglomeration and hotel prices. Evidence from business and tourism consumers 

      Balaguer, Jacint; Pernías, José C. Elsevier (2013-06)
      In this paper we examine the relationship between number of local competitors and both the average and the dispersion of retail prices in urban hotels using a dataset from the metropolitan area of Madrid (Spain). By ...

    • closedAccess   Residential energy consumption: A convergence analysis across Chinese regions 

      Herrerías Talamantes, María Jesús; Aller, Carlos; Ordóñez, Javier Elsevier (2017-02)
      The process of urbanization and the raise of living standards in China have led an increasing trend in the patterns of residential consumption. Projections for the population growth rate in urban areas do not paint a very ...

    • closedAccess   Rethinking banking and finance: Money, markets and models 

      Duygun, Meryem; Shaban, Mohamed; Soriano, Pilar; Tortosa-Ausina, Emili Elsevier (2013-12)
      The papers included in this special issue have been selected from the papers presented at the 2012 International Finance and Banking Society (IFABS) conference that was held in Valencia on 18–20 June, 2012, in collaboration ...

    • openAccess   Review of some statistical methods for constructing composite indicators 

      Jiménez-Fernández, Eduardo; Ruiz Martos, Maria J. Universidad de Almería (2020-02-04)
      The methodology for the construction process of composite indicators is reviewed in a step-by-step approach ranging from the ex-ante definition of the latent variable that is intended to be measure, through the construction ...

    • openAccess   Revisiting the quiet life hypothesis in banking using nonparametric techniques 

      Färe, Rolf; Grosskopf, Shawna; Maudos, Joaquín; Tortosa-Ausina, Emili Copyright © 2014 Taylor & Francis (2014-12)
      Early studies testing the quiet life hypothesis in banking found strong evidence that banks in more concentrated markets exhibit lower cost efficiency levels. More recent studies have reexamined the issue in different ...

    • closedAccess   Rich regions, poor regions and bank branch deregulation in Spain 

      Pastor, José Manuel; Pavía, Jose M.; Serrano, Lorenzo; Tortosa-Ausina, Emili Taylor & Francis (2016)
      Rich regions, poor regions and bank branch deregulation in Spain. Regional Studies. The links between financial deregulation and economic performance are evaluated in a European context. Specifically, the study analyses ...

    • openAccess   Risk attitude elicitation using a multi-lottery choice task: Real vs. hypothetical incentives 

      Sabater-Grande, Gerardo; Barreda-Tarrazona, Iván; Jaramillo-Gutiérrez, Ainhoa; Navarro Martínez, Daniel Editorial de Derecho Financiero (2011-10)
      We present a bi-dimensional multi lottery choice task which can be used in order to elicit the agents' risk attitudes in financial environments. This task is implemented both with hypothetical and real monetary incentives ...

    • openAccess   Risk aversion, over-confidence and private information as determinants of majority thresholds 

      Attanasi, Giuseppe; Georgantzis, Nikolaos; Corazzini, Luca; Passarelli, Francesco Wiley (2014)
      We present and experimentally test a theoretical model of majority threshold determina-tion as a function of voters’ risk preferences. The experimental results confirm the theoreticalprediction of a positive correlation ...

    • openAccess   Risk aversion, prudence and temperance: It is a matter of gap between moments 

      Colasante, Annarita; RICCETTI, LUCA Elsevier (2020-01-07)
      Higher order risk preferences are important determinants of choices under uncertainty. We build a questionnaire different from usually adopted ones: our questionnaire is simpler in order to reduce the number of random ...

    • openAccess   Risk perception and commitment to reduce global climate change in Spain 

      Rodríguez-Priego, Nuria; Montoro Ríos, Francisco J.; Georgantzis, Nikolaos CSIC (2014-01)
      Una encuesta online a la población española (n = 602) examina los factores que predicen el apoyo al compromiso con el medio ambiente por parte de los participantes para reducir el cambio climático global. Se realizó una ...

    • openAccess   Risk-taking and fairness among cocaine-dependent patients in dual diagnoses: Schizophrenia and Anti-Social Personality Disorder 

      Sabater-Grande, Gerardo; Haro, Gonzalo; García-Gallego, Aurora; Georgantzis, Nikolaos; Herranz-Zarzoso, Noemí; Baquero Escribano, Abel Nature Research (2020)
      This study reports experimental results from a clinical sample of patients with a cocaine-related disorder and dual diagnosis: Schizophrenia and Anti-Social Personality Disorder. Both types of patients as well as a ...

    • openAccess   Risk-taking behavior, earnings quality, and bank performance: A profit frontier approach 

      García-Alcober, Mª Pilar; Prior, Diego; Tortosa-Ausina, Emili; Illueca, Manuel Elsevier (2019)
      After the financial crisis of 2007–2008, some bank performance dimensions have been the subject of debate, two of which are bank efficiency, and bank risk-taking behavior. The literature on bank efficiency and productivity ...

    • closedAccess   Robot adoption and export performance: Firm-level evidence from Spain 

      Alguacil, Maite; LO TURCO, ALESSIA; Martinez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada Elsevier (2022-06-02)
      Export activities are crucial for firm performance. Existing evidence shows that technology adoption is an essential determinant of firm competitiveness. Nevertheless, scarce attention has been devoted to robotisation, a ...

    • closedAccess   Rural credit acquisition for family farming in Brazil: Evidence from the Legal Amazon 

      Moreira Dantas, Ianna Raissa; Martinez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; Henning, C.; Souza Dos Santos, M. A. Elsevier (2023-07)
      Family farmers are important actors to sustain food security and job generation in Brazilian rural areas. The National Program for Strengthening Family Farming (PRONAF) is the main public program offering microcredits to ...