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Oil Price Shocks and Labor Market Fluctuations
International Association for Energy Economics (2011-07)We examine the impact of real oil price shocks on labor market flows in the U.S. We first use smooth transition regression (STAR) models to investigate to what extent oil prices can be considered as a driving force of labor ... -
Oil price shocks and unemployment in Central and Eastern Europe
Elsevier (2018-03)The aim of this paper is to examine the effect of oil price movements on unemployment in Central and Eastern Europe. We do this by disentangling oil prices movements by their sign and from there we analyse the separate ... -
Oil prices and unemployment in the UK before and after the crisis: A Bayesian VAR approach. A note.
Elsevier (2018)The aim of this paper is to analyse the role of oil price movements in the evolution of unemployment in the UK, accounting for asymmetric effects. Distinguishing between positive and negative innovations in oil prices ... -
Oil prices, unemployment and the financial crisis in oil-importing countries: The case of Spain
(2019-08-15)The aim of this paper is to analyse the effect of oil price shocks on unemployment in an oil-importing country such as Spain to determine whether they affect unemployment differently in times of financial distress. In order ... -
On rational forward-looking behavior in economic geography: An experimental analysis
Elsevier (2021)This paper adapts the canonical New Economic Geography model for experimental testing of the model's behavioral assumptions by developing a finite-player, finite-horizon dynamic game of migration. Our analysis gives ... -
On Spatially Dependent Risk Preferences: The Case of Nigerian Farmers
Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (2021-05-25)Rice farmers’ attitudes toward risk-taking have been identified as one of the factors affecting investment decisions and wealth accumulation. While existing studies have identified the socioeconomic factors driving ... -
On the comparative performance of socially responsible and islamic mutual funds
Elsevier (2013-07)This is the first study to provide comprehensive analyses of the relative performance of both socially responsible investment (SRI) and Islamic mutual funds. The analysis proceeds in two stages. In the first, the performance ... -
On the consistency of the individual behavior when facing higher-order risk attitudes
Elsevier Inc. (2022-08-27)We propose and analyze three procedures to elicit participants’ behavior regarding their higherorder risk attitudes. Our procedures relax the rigidity of having to choose among only two alternatives (as usual in the ... -
On the determination of the granular size of the economy
Elsevier (2018-12)Introducing the granular hypothesis, Gabaix (2011) shows that the idiosyncratic shocks of a few “granular” firms account for a significant fraction of aggregate fluctuations of the US business cycle. In ... -
On the distribution of links in the interbank network: evidence from the e-MID overnight money market
Springer Berlin Heidelberg (2015)Previous literature on statistical properties of interbank networks has reported various power-laws, particularly for the degree distribution (i.e., the distribution of credit links between institutions). In this paper, ... -
On the distributional properties of size, profit and growth of Icelandic firm
Springer Verlag (2012)In this paper, we analyze the distributional properties of the balance sheets of Icelandic firms by performing an empirical analysis of total assets, profit rates and growth rates using a data set of 2,818 Icelandic firms ... -
On the dynamics of eco-efficiency performance in the European Union
Elsevier (2016-02)This paper evaluates the evolution of environmental performance in the context of the European Union (EU), over the period 1993–2010. The context is particularly relevant, due to the traditionally high concerns of the EU ... -
On the dynamics of sovereign debt in China: Sustainability and structural change
Elsevier (2018-01)The dynamics of public debt are an important determinant of the macroeconomic environment of an economy and of the investment climate in the private sector. There have been concerns recently about the sustainability of ... -
On the effect of EU trade preferences evidence for monthly exports of fruit and vegetables from Morocco
Ciheam (2016-06)This paper analyzes the effect of monthly trade preferences granted to Morocco by the EU in fruit and vegetables. We apply a gravity framework that takes into account the potential endogeneity of preferences in the estimation, ... -
On the evolution of competitiveness in Central and Eastern Europe: Is it broken?
Wiley (2023)In this article, we analyse the evolution of the real effective exchange rate (REER) as a measure of competitiveness for a group of Central and Eastern European countries. To do this, we employ unit-root tests with breaks ... -
On the informativeness of persistence for evaluating mutual fund performance using partial frontiers
Elsevier (2014)The last few years have witnessed a rapid evolution in the literature evaluating mutual fund performance using frontier techniques. The instruments applied, mostly DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis) and, to a lesser extent, ... -
On the long-run dynamics of income and wealth inequality
Springer (2021-04-07)We analyse top income and wealth shares data, by conducting a robust estimation of trends, tests for structural breaks, and tests for determining persistence. We include Anglo-Saxon countries, continental Europe and Asian ... -
On the relationship between society and higher education: what path should we take?
Taylor and Francis (2018-02-11)The current network society, with its primacy of information and communication technologies, is challenging the higher education model. The needs and expectations of today’s students differ from those of students in the ... -
Optimal extensions of compactness properties for operators on Banach function spaces
Elsevier (2015-04)Compactness type properties for operators acting in Banach function spaces are not always preserved when the operator is extended to a bigger space. Moreover, it is known that there exists a maximal (weakly) compact linear ... -
Output complexity, environmental conditions, and the efficiency of municipalities
Springer US (2013)Over the last few years, many studies have analyzed the efficiency of local governments in different countries. An accurate definition of their output bundles—i.e., the services and facilities they provide to their ...