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Unemployment Hysteresis in Transition Countries: Evidence using Stationarity Panel Tests with Breaks
Wiley-Blackwell (2008)This paper tests hysteresis e¤ects in unemployment using panel data for Tran- sition Countries covering the period 1992:1-2003:11. The tests exploit the cross- section variations of the series, and additionally, allow ... -
Unit Labour Costs and the Dynamics of Output and Unemployment in the South ern European Crisis Countries
Springer (2018-07-17)The GIPS countries, the south ern European crisis countries, have seen depressed output dynamics and high unemployment rates during the great recession following the 2007 - 2008 financial crisis . ... -
Unraveling the multi-scalar and evolutionary forces of entrepreneurial ecosystems: A historical event analysis applied to IoT Valley
Elsevier (2021-12-01)Entrepreneurial Ecosystems (EEs) have attracted growing attention in the academic world as well as in policy spheres during this last decade. The internal and systemic mechanics of EEs are now based on solid theoretical ... -
Unsupervised machine learning approach for building composite indicators with fuzzy metrics
Elsevier (2022-04-04)This study aims at developing a new methodological approach for building composite indicators, focusing on the weight schemes through an unsupervised machine learning technique. The composite indicator proposed is based ... -
Upside versus downside risk: Gender, stakes, and skewness
Elsevier (2022-05-29)Risky choices often involve a tradeoff between expected payoff and payoff variability. Subjects in a simple experiment, however, exhibit more aversion to “downside risk” (with a small probability of a low payoff) and more ... -
Using mixed research approaches to understand rural depopulation
Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (2019)There is a growing consensus on the need to propose specific policies to face rural depopulation. This article applies fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) to define the presence or absence in each municipality ... -
Value added, educational accountability approaches and their effects on schools' rankings: Evidence from Chile
Elsevier (2016-09)Value added models have been proposed to analyze different aspects related to school effectiveness on the basis of student growth. There is consensus in the literature about the need to control for socioeconomic status and ... -
Value-chain activities and individual wages
Emerald (2018)Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to contribute to a better understanding of whether emerging economies benefit or suffer more because of value-chain activities than advanced economies do. Specifically, it focuses on ... -
Variable selection in the analysis of energy consumption-growth nexus
Copyright © 2015 Elsevier B.V (2015-10-30)There is abundant empirical literature that focuses on whether energy consumption is a critical driver of economic growth. The evolution of this literature has largely consisted of attempts to solve the problems and answer ... -
Voluntary contributions in a system with uncertain returns: a case of systemic risk
Springer (2019-12-06)This paper investigates systemic risk that emerges from the interplay between uncertain returns to individual actions, uncertainty on others’ behavior and all this filtered through individual attitudes toward risk. We ... -
Voluntary Contributions with Risky and Uncertain Marginal Returns: The Importance of the Parameter Values
John Wiley & Sons (2013)Previous research indicates that risky and uncertain marginal returns from a public good lower contributions significantly. This paper presents experimental results showing that this effect depends on the employed ... -
Voluntary insurance vs. stabilization funds: An experimental analysis on bank runs
Elsevier (2024-03-19)Banking crises have recurrently emphasized the crucial need for establishing effective mechanisms to prevent bank runs, and different organizations are exploring a range of potential measures. With the aim of contributing ... -
Weighted convergence and regional clusters across China
Wiley-Blackwell (2011)We analyse per capita GDP convergence among 28 Chinese provinces between 1952 and 2005 using the distribution dynamics approach. Compared with previous studies, we provide a more complete view by including some additional ... -
Well-being and the Great Recession in Spain
Taylor & Francis (2019)This letter assesses the impact of the Great Recession on well-being in Spanish provinces using two alternative composite indicators of objective well-being that include somewhat different dimensions. Whereas the crisis ... -
What distinguishes individual stocks from the index?
Springer-Verlag (2010)Stochastic volatility models decompose the time series of financial returns into the product of a volatility factor and an iid noise factor. Assuming a slow dynamic for the volatility factor, we show via nonparametric tests ... -
What Drives Africa's Inability to Comply with EU Standards? Insights from Africa's Institution and Trade Facilitation Measures
Springer (2022-08-10)Over the years, there have been a significant number of Africa’s food exports rejected at the European Union (EU) borders due to their non-compliance with EU food safety standards. This paper, therefore, provides an in-depth ... -
What drives German foreign direct investment? New evidence using Bayesian statistical techniques
Elsevier (2019-09-14)Despite the importance of Germany as an issuer of foreign direct investment (FDI), the studies analyzing its determinants are far from conclusive. This research contributes to filling this gap providing new evidence for ... -
What drives interdependence of FDI among host countries? The role of geographic proximity and similarity in public debt
Elsevier (2016-11)We investigate the drivers of interdependence between flows of foreign direct investment (FDI), focusing on two potential channels: interdependence between geographically close FDI destination countries, and between ... -
What Drives the Location of Spanish Multinationals in Developing and Transition Countries?
Wiley (2018-01)In this paper, we investigate the location determinants of Spanish multinational firms in developing and transition economies. We pay particular attention to the role played by market potential and agglomeration economies ... -
What Explains Indirect Exports of Goods and Services in Eastern Europe and Central Asia?
Springer (2018-05)This paper investigates the determinants of indirect exporting, using firm- level data for 27 countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Indirect exporting depends on a combination of fixed and variable trade cost ...