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Common smooth transition trend-stationarity in European unemployment
(Elsevier, 2008)
This paper analyzes the hypothesis of hysteresis in Europe. The results are favorable to smooth transition trend-stationarity in European unemployment rates around highly persistent structural changes. In addition, we find ...
Sensitivity analysis of efficiency and Malmquist productivity indices: An application to Spanish savings banks
(Elsevier, 2008)
Hypothesis testing and statistical precision in the context of non-parametric efficiency and productivity measurement have been investigated since the early 1990s. Recent contributions focus on this matter through the use ...
Separation costs, job heterogeneity and labor market volatility in the matching model
(Elsevier, 2008)
This paper extends the standard matching model by introducing a gap in separation costs between entrant and incumbent workers. We show that when this gap is omitted from the model, these costs do not improve the labor ...
Is the environmental performance of industrialized countries converging? A 'SURE' approach to testing for convergence
(Elsevier, 2008)
In this paper, we test for convergence in the environmental performance of a sample of OECD countries, with data ranging from 1971 to 2002. First, we use Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to compute two environmental performance ...
The real exchange rate of the dollar for a panel of OECD countries: Balassa-Samuelson or distribution sector effect?
(Elsevier, 2008)
The purpose of this paper is to analyse the role of productivity in the behaviour of the real exchange rate of the dollar against the currencies of a group of OECD countries. To do this, a general specification is tested, ...
Treatment satisfaction [La satisfacción con el tratamiento]
(Elsevier, 2009)
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The Taylor Rule, Wealth Effects and the Exchange Rate
(Wiley, 2016)
In this study, we develop the Taylor rule and Taylor rule-based exchange rate models that consider wealth effects as represented by both asset prices and asset wealth. Using data for Australia, Sweden, the UK and the USA, ...
Which cryptocurrency data sources should scholars use?
(Elsevier, 2022-02-16)
Inspired by Alexander and Dakos (2020), we shed more light on the adequacy of data in the cryptocurrency literature by analysing the scaling properties and underlying processes of the main cryptocurrency databases ...
El fruto de la inseguridad. Vino, contrato óptimo y derechos de propiedad en Cataluña (1898–1935)
(Cambridge University Press, 2017)
Most of the Catalan vineyards were cultivated by means of sharecropping
contracts that granted the sharecropper ownership rights over the land. This
paper maintains that the
“
bundle of rights
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view of property is ...
From financial instability to green finance: the role of banking and credit market regulation in the Eurace model
(Springer, 2019-03)
We investigate appropriate banking and regulatory policies aimed at pushing the banking sector to shift from speculative lending, the cause of asset bubbles and economic crises, to green investments lending, so as to foster ...