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Relationship between spatial agglomeration and hotel prices. Evidence from business and tourism consumers
Elsevier (2013-06)In this paper we examine the relationship between number of local competitors and both the average and the dispersion of retail prices in urban hotels using a dataset from the metropolitan area of Madrid (Spain). By ... -
Residential energy consumption: A convergence analysis across Chinese regions
Elsevier (2017-02)The process of urbanization and the raise of living standards in China have led an increasing trend in the patterns of residential consumption. Projections for the population growth rate in urban areas do not paint a very ... -
Rethinking banking and finance: Money, markets and models
Elsevier (2013-12)The papers included in this special issue have been selected from the papers presented at the 2012 International Finance and Banking Society (IFABS) conference that was held in Valencia on 18–20 June, 2012, in collaboration ... -
Review of some statistical methods for constructing composite indicators
Universidad de Almería (2020-02-04)The methodology for the construction process of composite indicators is reviewed in a step-by-step approach ranging from the ex-ante definition of the latent variable that is intended to be measure, through the construction ... -
Revisiting the quiet life hypothesis in banking using nonparametric techniques
Copyright © 2014 Taylor & Francis (2014-12)Early studies testing the quiet life hypothesis in banking found strong evidence that banks in more concentrated markets exhibit lower cost efficiency levels. More recent studies have reexamined the issue in different ... -
Rich regions, poor regions and bank branch deregulation in Spain
Taylor & Francis (2016)Rich regions, poor regions and bank branch deregulation in Spain. Regional Studies. The links between financial deregulation and economic performance are evaluated in a European context. Specifically, the study analyses ... -
Risk attitude elicitation using a multi-lottery choice task: Real vs. hypothetical incentives
Editorial de Derecho Financiero (2011-10)We present a bi-dimensional multi lottery choice task which can be used in order to elicit the agents' risk attitudes in financial environments. This task is implemented both with hypothetical and real monetary incentives ... -
Risk aversion, over-confidence and private information as determinants of majority thresholds
Wiley (2014)We present and experimentally test a theoretical model of majority threshold determina-tion as a function of voters’ risk preferences. The experimental results confirm the theoreticalprediction of a positive correlation ... -
Risk aversion, prudence and temperance: It is a matter of gap between moments
Elsevier (2020-01-07)Higher order risk preferences are important determinants of choices under uncertainty. We build a questionnaire different from usually adopted ones: our questionnaire is simpler in order to reduce the number of random ... -
Risk perception and commitment to reduce global climate change in Spain
CSIC (2014-01)Una encuesta online a la población española (n = 602) examina los factores que predicen el apoyo al compromiso con el medio ambiente por parte de los participantes para reducir el cambio climático global. Se realizó una ... -
Risk-taking and fairness among cocaine-dependent patients in dual diagnoses: Schizophrenia and Anti-Social Personality Disorder
Nature Research (2020)This study reports experimental results from a clinical sample of patients with a cocaine-related disorder and dual diagnosis: Schizophrenia and Anti-Social Personality Disorder. Both types of patients as well as a ... -
Risk-taking behavior, earnings quality, and bank performance: A profit frontier approach
Elsevier (2019)After the financial crisis of 2007–2008, some bank performance dimensions have been the subject of debate, two of which are bank efficiency, and bank risk-taking behavior. The literature on bank efficiency and productivity ... -
Robot adoption and export performance: Firm-level evidence from Spain
Elsevier (2022-06-02)Export activities are crucial for firm performance. Existing evidence shows that technology adoption is an essential determinant of firm competitiveness. Nevertheless, scarce attention has been devoted to robotisation, a ... -
Rural credit acquisition for family farming in Brazil: Evidence from the Legal Amazon
Elsevier (2023-07)Family farmers are important actors to sustain food security and job generation in Brazilian rural areas. The National Program for Strengthening Family Farming (PRONAF) is the main public program offering microcredits to ... -
Searching for the optimal territorial structure: the case of Spanish provincial councils
Taylor and Francis Group (2019)Modern states are organized in multi-level governance structures with economic and political authorities dispersed across them. However, although there is relatively widespread consensus that this form of organization ... -
Sector cultural y creativo y riqueza de las regiones: en busca de causalidades
Gobierno Vasco.Departamento de Economía y Hacienda (2011)El concepto de «industrias culturales y creativas» es relativamente reciente. Varios trabajos han tratado de relacionarlo con el bienestar de las regiones. Sin embargo, no hay una doctrina concluyente al respecto. En este ... -
Sectoral scope and colocalisation of Spanish manufacturing industries
Springer Verlag (2016)In this paper, we use distance-based methods, specifically a slight variation of Ripley’s K function and a bivariate generalisation of this function, to explore the detailed location pattern of the Spanish manufacturing ... -
Securing support for eye health policy in low- and middle-income countries: Identifying stakeholders through a multi-level analysis
Palgrave Macmillan (2013)This article empirically evaluates advocacy in low- and middle-income countries as a key tool for raising policy priority and securing high-level decision maker support in eye health. We used a unique data set based on a ... -
Selecting A Suitable Approach To Analyze The Future Of Higher Education
Elsevier (2016)How are higher education organizations going to cope with the challenges of a society that is continuously changing? Although the education sector needs to adapt to technological and socioeconomic changes, methodologies ... -
Selection of the distributional rule as an alternative tool to foster cooperation in a Public Good Game
Elsevier (2017)This paper presents an investigation about cooperation in a Public Good Game using an Agent Based Model calibrated on experimental data. Starting from the experiment proposed in Colasante and Russo (2016), we analyze the ...