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The Causal Relationship between Equipment Investment and Infrastructures on Economic Growth in China
Higher Education Press (2010)There is agreement in the literature on economic growth concerning the transitory effects of capital accumulation on the process of economic development. However, controversy arises if this effect is permanent. In this ... -
The Challenges of Socially Responsible Investment Among Institutional Investors: Exploring the Links Between Corporate Pension Funds and Corporate Governance
Wiley (2009)During the last few decades, globalization of finance markets has come under increasing pressure to manage the many risks that companies face due to the negative impact that certain financial crises have had on securities ... -
The cluster is not flat. Uneven impacts of brokerage roles on the innovative performance of firms
Elsevier (2018)This paper investigates whether and to what extent individual firms improve their innovation from behaving as brokers connecting other actors in the Spanish ceramic tile cluster. The effects of the brokerage roles are ... -
The complete Gaussian kernel in the multi-factor Heston model: Option pricing and implied volatility applications
(2020-12-05)In this paper, we propose two new representation formulas for the conditional marginal probability den- sity of the multi-factor Heston model. The two formulas express the marginal density as a convolution with suitable ... -
The complete gaussian kernel in the multifactor Heston model: option pricing and implied volatility applications
Elsevier (2020-12-05)In this paper, we propose two new representation formulas for the conditional marginal probability density of the multi-factor Heston model. The two formulas express the marginal density as a convolution with suitable ... -
The cost efficiency of water utilities: when does public ownership matter?
Taylor & Francis (2016)This study explores the impact of different ownership types on the efficiency of water utilities. Theories and evidence have shown a puzzling relationship between ownership and performance. Moreover, relatively recent ... -
The Current Account Sustainability of European Transition Economies
Wiley (2013-02-07)This article presents an analysis of the sustainability of the current accounts of a group of central and eastern European countries. Given the link between national savings (public and private) and investment, the current ... -
The day after tomorrow: financial repercussions of COVID-19 on systemic risk
Springer (2022)In this paper, we study the financial repercussions of COVID-19 and the effect of anti-epidemic measures on financial markets. By using a composite dataset con- taining stock market indices of 10 countries characterized ... -
The demand for structured products: an experimental approach
Wiley (2014)Guaranteed investment funds are showing an important growth in the mutual fund industry. We analyze this type of fund’s demand using the experimental methodology. Different types of structured guaranteed funds, with ... -
The desertion of rich countries and the mutual support of the poor ones: preferential lending agreements among the PIGS
Elsevier (2019-08-09)By using the BIS data, we analyze the evolution of credit relationships among banks of the Euro-zone during the pre-crisis period (2006Q1–2007Q4), the global financial crisis (2008Q1–2010Q4) and the debt sovereign crisis ... -
The determinants of international financial integration revisited: the role of networks and geographic neutrality
Walter de Gruyter (2011-01)Over the last two decades, the degree of international financial integration has increased substantially, becoming an important area of research for many financial economists. This paper explores the determinants of the ... -
The Driving Forces behind China’s Growth
Wiley (2010)The main objective of this paper is to disentangling the determinants of the Chinese economic growth that occurred from 1965 to 2000. We have explored, first, the time series properties of the growth rates of GDP and labour ... -
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 ... -
The dynamics pattern of price dispersion in retail fuel markets
Elsevier (2018-08)This paper empirically investigates the dynamics of price dispersion in retail fuel markets as a response to the corresponding wholesale price changes. For this purpose we take advantage ... -
The Economic crisis and immigration: Romanian citizens in the ceramic tile district of Castello (Spain)
University of Bucharest (2011)Between 2001 and 2007 an exceptional number of immigrants arrived in the province of Castelló (Spain), the majority of whom were from Romania, attracted by the plentiful employment prospects offered by a model of production ... -
The education pillar of the Europe 2020 strategy: a convergence analysis
Springer (2021-03-26)In March 2010, the European Commission launched the Europe 2020 strategy ‘for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth’ in the EU. Education is a major pillar of the Europe 2020 strategy due to its long-run impact on economic ... -
The effect of economic integration and institutional quality of trade agreements on trade margins: evidence for Latin America
Springer (2015)This paper studies the effects of economic integration, as well as the institutional quality of existing trade agreements in Latin America, on the margins of trade. The analysis is performed on bilateral exports of goods ... -
The Effect of ICT on Trade: Does Product Complexity Matter?
Elsevier (2019-08)We use a gravity model of trade to investigate the effect of internet use on aggregate trade flows. We apply a structural gravity model using up-to-date PPML estimation techniques to a sample of bilateral exports of 120 ... -
The Effect of Income on Democracy Revisited A Flexible Distributional Approach
Springer (2017-12-26)We reexamine the effect of economic development on the level of democ- racy based on the data sets of Acemoglu et al. (Am Econ Rev 98(3):808–842, 2008) with a novel regression specification utilizing a zero–one-inflated ... -
The effect of maritime transport costs on the extensive and intensive margins: Evidence from the Europe–Asia trade
Palgrave Macmillan (2014)This article investigates the determinants of maritime trade. It focuses in particular on the extent to which variations in trade-related costs between Asia and Europe help to explain the surge in Euro–Asian trade in eight ...