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Re-examining inequality persistence
(Institute for the World Economy, 2020-01-20)
Although it is not a new phenomenon, in recent years inequality has moved to the top of the political agenda given the concern that will result in political instability and social resentment. Persistence in inequality can ...
Current account sustainability in Central and Eastern Europe: structural change and crisis
(Springer, 2020-02-13)
In this paper we analyse the evolution of the current account as a percentage of GDP for a group of Central and Eastern European Countries. Instead of analysing only the variable for unit roots, we go a step further and ...
Standards and political connections: Evidence from Tunisia
(Elsevier, 2021-08-17)
In this paper we investigate whether trade liberalization leads to more stringent product standards in a developing country context, uncovering the role that the connected firms’ market share plays in markets dominated by ...
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 ...
Three doors anomaly, ‘‘should I stay, or should I go’’: an artefactual field experiment
(Springer, 2021-04-01)
This work aims to identify and quantify the biases behind the anomalous behavior of people when they deal with the Three Doors dilemma, which is a really simple but counterintuitive game. Carrying out an artefactual field ...
Investment dynamics in central and eastern Europe: a nonlinear approach
(Informa UK Limited (Taylor & Francis Group), 2023-05-10)
The aim of this article is to understand the dynamics of investment in Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs). The role that investment plays in the economic development is of particular interest in these countries, ...
Convergence and determinants of young people not in employment, education or training: An European regional analysis
(Elsevier, 2022)
In this paper, we study the convergence in the rates of young people Not in Employment, Education or Training
(NEET) across the 274 European regions from 2000 to 2019. First, we apply the club convergence methodology
and ...
Quality of government and economic growth at the municipal level: Evidence from Spain
(WileyWiley Periodicals, 2021-07-21)
This paper analyzes the relationship between government efficiency—an important dimension of quality of government—and economic growth at the municipal level in 1,820 Spanish municipalities during the period 2008–2015. At ...
The impact of adult children living at home on the well-being of Spanish parents: Evidence from panel data
(Elsevier, 2024-01-31)
Despite the prevalence of co-residence of adult children and their parents across Europe, there is
only limited empirical evidence on the impact of such living arrangements on well-being. This paper
investigates the ...
Production networks in Europe: A natural experiment of the European Union enlargement to the east
(International Economics and Finance SocietyWiley, 2020-11-01)
This paper focuses on the 2004 enlargement of the European Union to the East and treats it as a
natural experiment to investigate two issues: first, whether there has been a trade creation effect
in final and intermediate ...