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The effect of rating agencies on herd behaviour
(Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2014-04)
This paper purports to provide some evidence on the effect of rating agencies in financial markets. By means of a laboratory experiment, we investigate the effect and interaction between private and public information. We ...
The Emotional and Attentional Impact of Exposure to One’s Own Body in Bulimia Nervosa: A Physiological View
(Public Library of Science, 2014)
Background: Body dissatisfaction is the most relevant body image disturbance in bulimia nervosa (BN). Research has shown
that viewing one’s own body evokes negative thoughts and emotions in individuals with BN. However, ...
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 ...
Energy intensity and investment ownership across Chinese provinces
(Elsevier, 2013)
The main objective of this paper is to investigate whether openness and investment ownership are key factors in explaining the diffusion of energy-saving technologies in China. Compared with previous studies, the novel ...
Fighting the COVID-19 Crisis: Debt Monetisation and EU Recovery Bonds
(Springer, 2020-07-28)
This paper highlights some peculiar characteristics of the economic crisis induced by the spread of COVID-19. It suggests two intertwined policy measures in order to tackle the emergency phase of the crisis and to support ...
Are higher wages good for business? An assessment under alternative innovation and investment scenarios
(Cambridge University Press, 2020)
This paper aims at investigating the interplay between inequality, innovation dynamics,
and investment behaviors in shaping the long-run patterns of growth of a closed economy.
By extending the analysis proposed in Caiani ...
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 ...
Capital goods imports and long-run growth: Is the Chinese experience relevant to developing countries?
(Elsevier, 2013)
In this paper, we analyze the role played by capital goods imports in the long-run growth of developing countries. We focus in the case of the Chinese economy in the last few decades. We find evidence that the ratio of ...
Export Structure Upgrading and Economic Growth in the Western Balkan Countries
(Taylor & Francis, 2019)
In this paper, we seek to analyze the impact that the ability to produce more sophisticated goods
has on the economic performance of the Western Balkan region and to determine the factors
fostering this process. To do ...
Ethical allocation of scarce vaccine doses: The Priority-Equality protocol
(Frontiers Media, 2022)
Background: Whenever vaccines for a new pandemic or widespread epidemic
are developed, demand greatly exceeds the available supply of vaccine doses
in the crucial, initial phases of vaccination. Rationing protocols must ...