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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 ...
Exports and governance: the role of private voluntary agrifood standards
(Wiley, 2019)
The empirical evidence that institutional differences across countries affect bilateral trade is robust. The crucial question remains how countries can enhance trade amid these differences. In this article, we measure the ...
Co-movement between residential and commercial housing prices: evidence from a new database
(Taylor & Francis, 2020)
The aim of this paper is to shed some light on the issue of the co-movement between residential real estate and commercial real estate using a newly developed database by the Bank if International Settlements. Our results ...
Club Convergence of Sectoral CO2 Emissions in the European Union.
(Elsevier, 2019-10-22)
An understanding of the evolution of sectoral CO2 emissions for all EU countries in recent
decades would clearly be useful for political authorities when designing future environmental
policies. This paper investigates ...
The relationship between cultural tourist behaviour and destination sustainability
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)
Tourism based on cultural issues is growing fast in recent years. This type of tourism promotes the diversification of demand and supply at destinations, while keeping and valuing the local culture. Improving our knowledge ...
An Agent-based Stock-flow Consistent Model of the Sustainable Transition in the Energy Sector
(Elsevier, 2018-03)
In this paper, we investigate the effects on the economy of a feed-in tariff policy mechanism aimed to foster investments in renewable energy production capacity. To this purpose, we employ an enriched version of the ...
Systemic financial risk indicators and securitised assets: an agent-based framework
(Springer, 2019-09-04)
The paper presents an agent-based model of a credit economy which includes a securitisation process and a bailout mechanism for bank bankruptcies. Within this framework, banks are able to sell mortgages to a financial ...
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 ...
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
. ...
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 ...