Πλοήγηση ανά Θέμα "Economics"
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Competition and regulation in a wireless operator market: An evolutionary game perspective
(2012)We consider a communication market where a set of wireless operators compete over a large common pool of users. The latter have a reservation utility of U0 units or, equivalently, an alternative option to satisfy their ... -
Conceptualizing Smart Government: Interrelations and Reciprocities with Smart City
(2021)Smart government (SG) is an emerging topic, which increasingly attracts attention from scholars who work in public administration, political, and information sciences. Smart city (SC) on the other hand, is an emerging and ... -
A conditional directional distance function approach for measuring tax collection efficiency: evidence from Spanish regional offices
(2021)This paper analyzes the evolution of the technical efficiency of Spanish regional tax offices with respect to the main devolved taxes for the period 2005–2014. We apply the conditional directional distance function ... -
Contesting the autonomy of political economy: The early positivist criticism of economic knowledge
(2008)A strong critical movement emerged in the mid 1860s based on Auguste Comte's idea of a unified social science. Presented here is the debate over the independence of political economy vis-a-vis the other branches of social ... -
Corruption and Economic Efficiency: Panel Data Evidence
(2010)This paper investigates empirically the effect of corruption on countries' economic efficiency. By using a sample of 79 countries for the time period 2000-2006 the paper applies DEA window analysis and econometric panel ... -
Cost of capital, audit and earnings quality under financial crisis: A global empirical investigation
(2015)This paper investigates the cost of capital and the changes of audit quality and earnings management influencing on it due to financial crisis of 2008. Using linear regression analysis, 137,091 firm-year observations from ... -
The creative potential of medium-sized and small Greek cities: Reflections on contemporary cultural strategies
(2010)As the creative city discourse has come to the centre of cultural policy debates, its rhetoric often neglects smaller cities and emphasises the cases of large cities that employ culture as a driver for economic growth. ... -
Crime and the effectiveness of public order spending in Greece: Policy implications of some persistent findings
(2013)Increasing crime rates invariably result in calls for more police protection which requires the allocation of additional scarce resources to policing and public order. In an environment of fiscal pressures, the effectiveness ... -
Critical values for testing a unit root in finite samples from the MA(1)
(2007)This study, using a certain simulation strategy, for the exact maximum likelihood estimator of theta from the MA( 1), estimates appropriate percentiles, together with their standard errors, offering a new set of critical ... -
Cross-border cooperation in southeastern Europe - The enterprises' point of view
(2003)This article examines the current status, limits, prospects, and policies of cross-border cooperation in the border zone of Albania, Bulgaria, FYROM (Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia), and Greece on the basis of a ... -
Data protection in smart cities: Application of the EU GDPR
(2019)Urban growth, combined with the development of digital technology, has led to the recent boom of smart cities worldwide. Smart cities make use of all available information and communications technology in the built environment ... -
Database design of a geo-environmental information system
(2014)Environmental protection from productive investments becomes a major task for enterprises and constitutes a critical competitiveness factor. The region of Central Greece presents many serious and particular environmental ... -
Defence expenditure and economic growth in the European Union - A causality analysis
(2004)This paper examines the relationship between military expenditure and growth among the EU15 members using co-integration and causality tests for the period 1961-2000. Although the results reported herein do not reveal a ... -
THE DETERMINANTS OF CONSUMPTION FOR ORGANIC AQUACULTURE PRODUCTS-EVIDENCE FROM GREECE
(2014)This study investigates Greek consumers' behavior towards organic aquaculture products, identifying possible distinct consumer groups and examining possible linkages between consumer characteristics and marketing aspects ... -
Determinants of hazard confronting new entry: Does financial structure matter?
(2000)This paper attempts to identify the determinants of hazard confronting 219 new manufacturing firms established in 1982-84 and followed up to 1992 using a Cox regression model. Three sets of variables are combined in the ... -
Determinants of willingness to pay for coastal zone quality improvement
(2012)Individuals' decision to use a particular coastal beach is influenced by their preferences and perceptions as well as site's characteristics. This study examines visitors' attributes and desired site specific characteristics ...