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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 ... -
Voluntary insurance vs. stabilization funds: An experimental analysis on bank runs
Elsevier (2024-03-19)Banking crises have recurrently emphasized the crucial need for establishing effective mechanisms to prevent bank runs, and different organizations are exploring a range of potential measures. With the aim of contributing ... -
Weighted convergence and regional clusters across China
Wiley-Blackwell (2011)We analyse per capita GDP convergence among 28 Chinese provinces between 1952 and 2005 using the distribution dynamics approach. Compared with previous studies, we provide a more complete view by including some additional ... -
Well-being and the Great Recession in Spain
Taylor & Francis (2019)This letter assesses the impact of the Great Recession on well-being in Spanish provinces using two alternative composite indicators of objective well-being that include somewhat different dimensions. Whereas the crisis ... -
What distinguishes individual stocks from the index?
Springer-Verlag (2010)Stochastic volatility models decompose the time series of financial returns into the product of a volatility factor and an iid noise factor. Assuming a slow dynamic for the volatility factor, we show via nonparametric tests ... -
What Drives Africa's Inability to Comply with EU Standards? Insights from Africa's Institution and Trade Facilitation Measures
Springer (2022-08-10)Over the years, there have been a significant number of Africa’s food exports rejected at the European Union (EU) borders due to their non-compliance with EU food safety standards. This paper, therefore, provides an in-depth ... -
What drives German foreign direct investment? New evidence using Bayesian statistical techniques
Elsevier (2019-09-14)Despite the importance of Germany as an issuer of foreign direct investment (FDI), the studies analyzing its determinants are far from conclusive. This research contributes to filling this gap providing new evidence for ... -
What drives interdependence of FDI among host countries? The role of geographic proximity and similarity in public debt
Elsevier (2016-11)We investigate the drivers of interdependence between flows of foreign direct investment (FDI), focusing on two potential channels: interdependence between geographically close FDI destination countries, and between ... -
What Drives the Location of Spanish Multinationals in Developing and Transition Countries?
Wiley (2018-01)In this paper, we investigate the location determinants of Spanish multinational firms in developing and transition economies. We pay particular attention to the role played by market potential and agglomeration economies ... -
What Explains Indirect Exports of Goods and Services in Eastern Europe and Central Asia?
Springer (2018-05)This paper investigates the determinants of indirect exporting, using firm- level data for 27 countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Indirect exporting depends on a combination of fixed and variable trade cost ... -
When complexity meets finance: A contribution to the study of the macroeconomic effects of complex financial systems
Elsevier (2020)In the last decade, complexity economics has emerged as a powerful approach to the understanding of the most relevant factors influencing economic development. The concept of economic complexity has been applied to t ... -
When will the lockdown end? Confinement duration forecasts and self-reported life satisfaction in Spain: A longitudinal study
Frontiers Media (2021-03-24)This paper reports results from a longitudinal study on the impact of the lockdown on daily self-reported life satisfaction levels during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain. A stable panel (N = 1,131) of ... -
Which are the long-run determinants of US outward FDI? Evidence using large long-memory panels
Taylor and Francis Group (2023-06-25)This paper analyzes the long-run determinants of US outward FDI (OFDI) stock, focusing mainly on the Euro Area (EA) for the period 1985–2019. We consider a sample of 54 developed and emerging host countries representing ... -
Which cryptocurrency data sources should scholars use?
Elsevier (2022-02-16)Inspired by Alexander and Dakos (2020), we shed more light on the adequacy of data in the cryptocurrency literature by analysing the scaling properties and underlying processes of the main cryptocurrency databases ... -
Which estimator to measure local governments’ costefficiency? The case of Spanish municipalities
Springer Verlag (2019)WeanalyseoverallcostefficiencyinSpanishlocalgovernmentsduringthecrisisperiod(2008–2015). To this end, we first consider some of the most popular nonparametricmethods to evaluate local government efficiency, data envelopment ... -
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 ...