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Green innovation and financial performance: A study on Italian firms
(Elsevier, 2022)
As the environmental agenda gains momentum all over the world, enterprises face the challenge of combining economic and environmental goals. An obvious, recurrent, and yet not fully answered question is whether, and under ...
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 ...
Are EU standards detrimental to Africa’s exports?
(Elsevier, 2020-06-15)
The high costs of complying with standards adversely affect export competitiveness. Existing evidence suggests that the harmonisation of standards to international benchmarks reduces compliance costs and is less trade-inhibiting, ...
Are the transport fuel retail markets regionally integrated in Spain? Evidence from price transmission
(Elsevier, 2014-10)
In this paper we explore whether the Spanish retail fuel markets are integrated at the regional level. We perform a comparative analysis of the transmission of international wholesale fuel prices to retail fuel prices. Our ...
The environmental Kuznets curve: functional form, time-varying heterogeneity and outliers in a panel setting
(John Wiley & Sons, 2013)
This paper contributes to extend the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) literature by introducing a new estimation technique able to deal with the issue of slope heterogeneity, functional form issues, the role of unobserved ...
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 ...
The dynamics of international trade integration: 1967–2004
(Springer Verlag, 2014)
This article explores how trade integration has advanced over the last four
decades and what the foreseeable future holds, among other related questions. To
this end, we consider certain methods which have scarcely been ...
Exploiting ergodicity in forecasts of corporate profitability
(Elsevier, 2019-12-13)
Theory suggests that competition tends to equalize profit rates through the process of capital reallocation, and numerous studies have confirmed that profit rates are indeed persistent and mean-reverting. Recent empirical ...
Trade and transport connectivity: a spatial approach
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)
This article aims to analyse whether transport connectivity affects trade flows using a spatial approach. We consider first-order contiguity and incorporate logistics network structure dependence in a spatial autoregressive ...
Large-Scale Modeling of Economic Systems
(Complex Systems Publications, 2013)
Following the events of the credit crunch and the onset of a global reces- sion, alternative ways of modeling modern economies and mechanisms for carrying out policy analysis are now an urgent priority. Traditional ...