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Psychopathy and Economic Behavior Among Prison Inmates: An Experiment
Frontiers Media (2021)This paper investigates whether there is a connection between psychopathy and certain manifestations of social and economic behavior, measured in a lab-in-thefield experiment with prison inmates. In order to test this ... -
Public finances in Europe: Are they sustainable?
Springer (2018-07-17)In this paper we aim to analyse the degree of mean reversion of public expenditure, revenue and the difference between them, over GDP for 27 European Union (EU) countries. To gain flexibility in the analysis of the order ... -
Public finances in the EU-27: Are they sustainable?
Springer (2020)In this paper we aim to analyse the degree of mean reversion of public expenditure, revenue and the difference between them, over GDP for 27 European Union (EU) countries. To gain flexibility in the analysis of the order ... -
Punishing liars—How monitoring affects honesty and trust
Public Library of Science (2018)Previous experiments have shown that the possibility to punish liars does not per se increase honesty in principal-agent relationships. In this study, we first establish a punishment mechanism that substantially enhances ... -
Quality of government and economic growth at the municipal level: Evidence from Spain
Wiley (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 ... -
Quo Vadis, Raters? A frontier approach to identify overratings and underratings in sovereign credit risk
Taylor & Francis (2020-04-03)This study analyses overratings and underratings in sovereign credit risk. The analysis uses partial frontier methods, a technique rarely applied in this literature. By combining a robust variant of the free disposal hull ... -
R2 and idiosyncratic volatility: Which captures the firm-specific return variation?
Elsevier (2016)A growing literature regards R2 and idiosyncratic volatility as interchangeable proxies for firm-specific return variation and examines its relations to information efficiency. However, the question on choosing the ... -
Rail Freight Transport and Demand Requirements: an Analysis of Attribute Cut-Offs Through a Stated Preference Experiment
Springer Verlag (2014)This paper analyses the choice between road and rail in Spain where rail market share for freight is still residual. Discrete choice models are estimated with data obtained through a two-phase fieldwork, thus allowing us ... -
Re-assessing causality between energy consumption and economic growth
Public Library of Science (2018)The energy consumption-growth nexus has been widely studied in the empirical literature, though results have been inconclusive regarding the direction, or even the existence, of causality. These inconsistent results can ... -
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 ... -
Real convergence in Europe: A cluster analysis
Elsevier (2013)In this paper we analyse real convergence in GDP per worker in the EU member states. The aim is to test whether there is evidence of club convergence in the EU, i.e. divergence in GDP per worker. Evidence in favour of ... -
Real exchange rate misalignments in CEECs: Have they hindered growth?
Springer (2019-07-16)We study the impact of exchange rate misalignment on economic activity in nine Central and Eastern European economies. Exchange rate misalignments are computed from country-specific long-run exchange rate relationships ... -
Real unit labour costs in Eurozone countries: drivers and clusters
Springer Verlag (2015)We examine the trajectories of the real unit labour costs (RULCs) in a selection of Eurozone economies. Strong asymmetries in the convergence process of the RULCs and its components – real wages, capital intensity, and ... -
Reciprocity in Labor Market Relationships: Evidence from an Experiment across High-Income OECD Countries
MDPI (2015)We study differences in behavior across countries in a labor market context. To this end, we conducted a bilateral gift-exchange experiment comparing the behavior of subjects from five high-income OECD countries: Germany, ... -
La red de ferrocarriles en el laboratorio
Ministerio de Energía, Turismo y Agenda Digital (2017)Las redes de transporte se construyen en espacios definidos y limitados por especificidades geográficas y límites geopolíticos. En consecuencia, dichas redes acaban asumiendo asimetrías inevitables, contrarias a los ... -
Regional Hub port development : the case of Montevideo, Uruguay
Inderscience (2011)This paper reflects on port development in Uruguay in an environment of trilateral interport competition. The regional characteristics of port development in terms of their geographical, functional and operational ... -
Regional income convergence in Colombia: population, space, and long-run dynamics
Springer (2023)We examine the trajectory of regional income dynamics in Colombia. Using data on all 33 Colombian departments from 2000 to 2016, we employ extensions of (spatial) Markov chains, space-time mobility measures, along with a ... -
Regional versus global production networks: where does Latin America stand?
Taylor & Francis (2015)This article quantifies the effects of the Latin American Integration Association (LAIA) and the Southern Common Market (Mercosur) on the trade of intermediate goods and also on the trade of final goods. It is the first ... -
Regional well-being in the OECD
Springer (2018-08)This paper analyses convergence in well-being across 395 OECD regions in the period 2000–2014 using data from the Regional Well-being Dataset. It is widely known that well-being is a concept that ... -
Regionalismo, variación subnacional y gravedad: Una historia de cuatro países
Asociación Española de Ciencia Regional (2016)This paper argues that the use of subnational data allows an accurate assessment of the effect of trade agreements on bilateral exports within a gravity model framework. We examine the effect of regional integration on ...