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Ultimatum salary bargaining with real effort
Elsevier (2008)We report experimental results on ultimatum salary bargaining with a real task performed by employee subjects. Compared to the baseline treatment with a hypothetical task, the introduction of a real task raises offers, ... -
Understanding German FDI in Latin America and Asia: A comparison of GLM estimators
MDPI (2020-03-10)ThegrowthofForeignDirectInvestment(FDI)indevelopingcountriesoverthelastdecade has attracted an intense academic and policy-oriented interest for its determinants. Despite the gravity model being considered a useful tool ... -
Understanding the Determinants of Economic Integration in Latin America
Center for Economic Integration, Sejong University (2017-09)When signing or enhancing trade agreements with Latin America, political and institutional factors play a more important role at present compared with their role in the past. In addition, ... -
Understanding the role of open peer review and dynamic academic articles
Akadémiai Kiadó (2011-05-06)We welcome the commentary by L. Egghe stimulating discussion on our recent article “Natural selection of academic papers” (NSAP) that focuses on an important modern issue at the heart of the scientific enterprise — the ... -
Understanding the WTA-WTP gap: Attitudes, feelings, uncertainty and personality
Elsevier (2010)We present an experiment designed to study the psychological basis for the willingness to accept (WTA)-willingness to pay (WTP) gap. Specifically, we conduct a standard WTA-WTP economic experiment to replicate the gap and ... -
Unemployment and common smooth transition trends in central and eastern european countries
University of Nottingham. School of Economics (2011)In this paper we analyse whether the apparent comovement of unemployment rates for some of the Central and Eastern EU new members can be explained by a common force, possibly linked to the process of economic integration. ... -
Unemployment and labor force participation in Italy
Emerald Publishing Limited (2021-10-06)Purpose Our main purpose is to test the unemployment invariance hypothesis in Italy. Design/methodology/approach This paper provides an empirical investigation of the unemployment and labor force participation in ... -
Unemployment Convergence in Central and Eastern European Countries: Driving Forces and Cluster Behavior
Taylor & Francis (2015)Employing a nonlinear logistic smooth transition autoregression system and comovement analysis, we find that the German business cycle has acted as a common driver affecting the cyclical behavior of unemployment rates in ... -
Unemployment Hysteresis by Sex and Education Attainment in the EU
Springer (2023)In this paper, we analyse the degree of persistence of shocks in unemployment rates for a group of 22 European countries, disaggregating the data by sex and education attainment. By means of using a long-memory model with ... -
Unemployment Hysteresis in Transition Countries: Evidence using Stationarity Panel Tests with Breaks
Wiley-Blackwell (2008)This paper tests hysteresis e¤ects in unemployment using panel data for Tran- sition Countries covering the period 1992:1-2003:11. The tests exploit the cross- section variations of the series, and additionally, allow ... -
Unit Labour Costs and the Dynamics of Output and Unemployment in the South ern European Crisis Countries
Springer (2018-07-17)The GIPS countries, the south ern European crisis countries, have seen depressed output dynamics and high unemployment rates during the great recession following the 2007 - 2008 financial crisis . ... -
Unraveling the multi-scalar and evolutionary forces of entrepreneurial ecosystems: A historical event analysis applied to IoT Valley
Elsevier (2021-12-01)Entrepreneurial Ecosystems (EEs) have attracted growing attention in the academic world as well as in policy spheres during this last decade. The internal and systemic mechanics of EEs are now based on solid theoretical ... -
Unsupervised machine learning approach for building composite indicators with fuzzy metrics
Elsevier (2022-04-04)This study aims at developing a new methodological approach for building composite indicators, focusing on the weight schemes through an unsupervised machine learning technique. The composite indicator proposed is based ... -
Upside versus downside risk: Gender, stakes, and skewness
Elsevier (2022-05-29)Risky choices often involve a tradeoff between expected payoff and payoff variability. Subjects in a simple experiment, however, exhibit more aversion to “downside risk” (with a small probability of a low payoff) and more ... -
Using mixed research approaches to understand rural depopulation
Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (2019)There is a growing consensus on the need to propose specific policies to face rural depopulation. This article applies fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) to define the presence or absence in each municipality ... -
Value added, educational accountability approaches and their effects on schools' rankings: Evidence from Chile
Elsevier (2016-09)Value added models have been proposed to analyze different aspects related to school effectiveness on the basis of student growth. There is consensus in the literature about the need to control for socioeconomic status and ... -
Value-chain activities and individual wages
Emerald (2018)Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to contribute to a better understanding of whether emerging economies benefit or suffer more because of value-chain activities than advanced economies do. Specifically, it focuses on ... -
Variable selection in the analysis of energy consumption-growth nexus
Copyright © 2015 Elsevier B.V (2015-10-30)There is abundant empirical literature that focuses on whether energy consumption is a critical driver of economic growth. The evolution of this literature has largely consisted of attempts to solve the problems and answer ... -
Voluntary contributions in a system with uncertain returns: a case of systemic risk
Springer (2019-12-06)This paper investigates systemic risk that emerges from the interplay between uncertain returns to individual actions, uncertainty on others’ behavior and all this filtered through individual attitudes toward risk. We ... -
Voluntary Contributions with Risky and Uncertain Marginal Returns: The Importance of the Parameter Values
John Wiley & Sons (2013)Previous research indicates that risky and uncertain marginal returns from a public good lower contributions significantly. This paper presents experimental results showing that this effect depends on the employed ...