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Do deep and comprehensive regional trade agreements help in reducing air pollution?
Springer Nature (2018-09)Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) is suggested to play a key role in moderating the benefits of physical activity (PA) on cognition. Previous research found that PA may have an impact on peripheral BDNF expression. ... -
Do political connections matter for bank efficiency in times of crisis?
John Wiley and Sons Ltd (2024-01-23)Do political connections affect bank efficiency during crises? This study addresses this question by adopting a two-stage approach that performs a quantile regression analysis on a unique dataset of listed banks in a region ...
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Do Transfer Costs Matter for Foreign Remittances? A Gravity Model Approach
Kiel Institute for the World Economy (2016)Using bilateral data on remittance flows to Pakistan for 23 major host countries, this is the first study that examines the effect of transaction costs on foreign remittances. The authors find that the effect of transaction ...
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Do transport costs have a differential effect on trade at the sectoral level?
Chapman and Hall (London) (2008)This article aims to analyse the determinants of transport costs and to investigate their influence in international trade with a sample of disaggregate trade data. First, we estimate a transport-cost function using ...
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Does Aid Promote Donor Exports? Commercial Interest versus Instrumental Philanthropy
John Wiley & Sons (2014)This paper investigates by means of advanced panel data techniques whether bilateral aid has been successful in promoting bilateral exports to recipient countries during the period 1988–2007 and to what extent changes in ...
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Does classical competition explain the statistical features of firm growth?
Elsevier (2008)We propose a statistical equilibrium model where the tendency for competition to equalize profit rates results in an exponential power (or Subbotin) distribution. The model supports and extends recent evidence on the Laplace ... -
Does climate change concern alter individual tax preferences? Evidence from an Italian survey
Emerald (2023-01-20)Purpose This paper analyzes the role that the climate change concern (CCCi) has on the willingness to accept an environmental tax. The author aims to grasp how individual general tax preferences can differ with respect ...
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Does digitalization in higher education help to bridge the gap between academia and industry? An application to COVID-19
SAGE Publications Ltd (2021-01-27)There are three different types of activities performed in higher education institutions that, taken together, form the components of a trilemma in higher education. These include traditional academic activities (research ...
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Does Environmetal Policy Stringency Foster Innovation and Productivity in OECD Countries?
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (2016)In this paper we use panel data models and quantile regressions to test the “weak” and “strong” versions of the Porter hypothesis, using data from 14 OECD countries over the period 1990-2011. A newly-released environmental ...
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Does foreign aid promote recipient exports to donor countries?
Springer (2013)This paper uses the gravity model of trade to investigate the effect of foreign aid on exports of aid recipients to donor countries. Most of the theoretical work emphasises the possible negative impact of aid on recipient ...
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Does foreign aid really raise per capita income? A time series perspective
Wiley (2012-02)We analyze the relationship between per capita income and foreign aid. We employ annual data and five-year averages and carefully examine the time-series properties of the data. Panel estimations with dynamic feasible ...
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Does foreign ownership promote environmental protection? Evidence from firm-level data
Springer (2022)This paper examines the role played by foreign ownership as a determinant of the environmental behaviour of Spanish manufacturing firms. Unlike previous studies, our analysis distinguishes between current expenditure on ...
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Does German Development Aid boost German Exports and German Employment? A Sectoral Level Analysis
De Gruyter (2016)This paper uses an augmented gravity model of trade to investigate the link between German development aid and sectoral exports from Germany to aid recipient countries with data from 1978–2011. The findings indicate that ...
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Does German development aid promote German exports?
Wiley-Blackwell (2009-08)This paper uses a static and dynamic gravity model of trade to investigate the link between German development aid and exports from Germany to the recipient countries. The findings indicate that, in the long run, German ...
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Does internationalisation increase exchange rate exposure?- Evidence from Chinese financial firms
Elsevier (2018-03)This study investigates both the symmetric and asymmetric exchange rate exposures of Chinese financial firms in the context of an accelerated pace of RMB internationalisation. We find that an increasing number of Chinese ...
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Does multimarket contact affect prices in the retail fuel industry? First empirical evidence
Elsevier (2020-12-09)Although multimarket competition is a fairly common characteristic in the retail fuel industry, its effect on the corresponding prices remains unexplored. By using a large dataset of service stations in Spain, a first set ...
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Does new donors' aid affect gross exports and GVC participation differently?
Routledge (2021-07-05)This paper investigates whether new donors use foreign aid to facilitate their integration in the world economy. With this aim, the effect of foreign aid on gross trade and global value chains (GVC) is estimated for a ...
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Does Perceived Corruption Converge? International Evidence
De Gruyter (2022-03-17)This article analyses the evolution over time of perceived corruption for a large set of countries worldwide. To proxy corruption, we use the recently proposed Bayesian Corruption Index (Standaert, S. (2015). Divining the ...
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Does revealing personality data affect prosocial behaviour?
Elsevier (2019-03)Many modern organisations collect data on individuals’ personality traits as part of their human resource selection processes. We test experimentally whether revealing information on personality data impacts on pro-social ...
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Does social capital matter for European regional growth?
Elsevier (2015)This paper analyzes the role of different elements of social capital in economic growth for a sample of 85 European regions during the period 1995–2008. Despite the remarkable progress that social capital and European ...
