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    • 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 ...

    • openAccess   Searching for the optimal territorial structure: the case of Spanish provincial councils 

      Narbón-Perpiñá, Isabel; Balaguer-Coll, Maria Teresa; Prior, Diego; Tortosa-Ausina, Emili Taylor and Francis Group (2019)
      Modern states are organized in multi-level governance structures with economic and political authorities dispersed across them. However, although there is relatively widespread consensus that this form of organization ...

    • openAccess   Sector cultural y creativo y riqueza de las regiones: en busca de causalidades 

      Rausell Köster, Pau; Marco Serrano, Francisco; Abeledo Sanchis, Raúl Gobierno Vasco.Departamento de Economía y Hacienda (2011)
      El concepto de «industrias culturales y creativas» es relativamente reciente. Varios trabajos han tratado de relacionarlo con el bienestar de las regiones. Sin embargo, no hay una doctrina concluyente al respecto. En este ...

    • closedAccess   Sectoral scope and colocalisation of Spanish manufacturing industries 

      Casanova, Marta R.; Orts, Vicente; Albert Ortiz, José Miguel Springer Verlag (2016)
      In this paper, we use distance-based methods, specifically a slight variation of Ripley’s K function and a bivariate generalisation of this function, to explore the detailed location pattern of the Spanish manufacturing ...

    • openAccess   Securing support for eye health policy in low- and middle-income countries: Identifying stakeholders through a multi-level analysis 

      Morone, Piergiuseppe; Camacho Cuena, Eva; Kocur, Ivo; Banatvala, Nicholas Palgrave Macmillan (2013)
      This article empirically evaluates advocacy in low- and middle-income countries as a key tool for raising policy priority and securing high-level decision maker support in eye health. We used a unique data set based on a ...

    • openAccess   Selecting A Suitable Approach To Analyze The Future Of Higher Education 

      Márquez-Ramos, Laura; Mourelle, Estefanía Elsevier (2016)
      How are higher education organizations going to cope with the challenges of a society that is continuously changing? Although the education sector needs to adapt to technological and socioeconomic changes, methodologies ...

    • openAccess   Selection of the distributional rule as an alternative tool to foster cooperation in a Public Good Game 

      Colasante, Annarita Elsevier (2017)
      This paper presents an investigation about cooperation in a Public Good Game using an Agent Based Model calibrated on experimental data. Starting from the experiment proposed in Colasante and Russo (2016), we analyze the ...

    • openAccess   Self-defined information indices: application to the case of university rankings 

      Ferrer-Sapena, Antonia; Erdogan, E.; Jiménez-Fernández, Eduardo; Sánchez Pérez, Enrique A.; Peset, Fernanda Springer (2020-06-25)
      University rankings are now relevant decision-making tools for both institutional and private purposes in the management of higher education and research. However, they are often computed only for a small set of institutions ...

    • openAccess   Self-employment by gender in the EU: convergence and clusters 

      FARIA, JOAO RICARDO; Cuestas, Juan Carlos; Gil-Alana, Luis; Mourelle, Estefanía Springer (2020-11-05)
      This paper studies the convergence of self-employment by gender in the European Union, through tests for the order of integration and cluster analysis, in order to investigate the occurrence of two types of convergence: ...