Πλοήγηση ανά Θέμα "Economics"
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Disentangling different patterns of business cycle synchronicity in the EU regions
(2015)The present paper provides a comprehensive and consolidated analysis of the business cycle synchronicity between European regions and EU-14. Our study is conducted in three levels. First, we analyse regional business cycle ... -
Does central bank transparency affect stock market volatility?
(2014)This paper addresses the issue of impacts of central banks' transparency on stock market volatility. Using a simple theoretical macroeconomic model, we analytically find a negative link between stock prices volatility and ... -
Does Terrorism Affect the Stock-Bond Covariance? Evidence from European Countries
(2013)Using daily stock and bond returns data from four European countries-France, Germany, Spain, and Great Britain-that have been the victims of significant terrorist activity, this study addresses the issue of whether ... -
Does the Home Country's National Culture Affect MNCs' Performance? Empirical Evidence of the World's Top 100 East-West Non-financial MNCs
(2008)The question of why some multinational corporations (MNCs) perform better than others is at the centre of the analysis of many international business disciplines and the subject of a never-ending debate of policy-makers. ... -
A double-auction mechanism for mobile data-offloading markets
(2015)The unprecedented growth of mobile data traffic challenges the performance and economic viability of today's cellular networks and calls for novel network architectures and communication solutions. Mobile data offloading ... -
Dynamic European stock market convergence: Evidence from rolling cointegration analysis in the first euro-decade
(2010)The introduction of the euro epitomizes European economic integration. This paper assesses the dynamic process of convergence among four major European stock markets in the first euro-decade. Using tests that allow for ... -
Dynamics of productivity taking into consideration the impact of energy consumption and environmental degradation
(2018)This study deals with the nonparametric frontier analysis in the case of the EU 28 countries for a period spanning from 1993 to 2015. It provides statistical inference about the radial output based measure of technical ... -
An eco-efficient and economical optimum evaluation technique for the forest road networks: the case of the mountainous forest of Metsovo, Greece
(2018)The sustainable forest management can be achieved only through environmentally sound and economically efficient and feasible forest road networks and transportation systems that can potentially improve the multi-functional ... -
Economic aspects of urban green space: A survey of perceptions and attitudes
(2009)Urban green space constitutes a crucial element of all cities. It affects the overall physical and built environment of the city, making cities attractive places not only to their own citizens, but also to external visitors ... -
Economic efficiency and growth in the EU enlargement
(2009)This paper deals with the effects of EMU enlargement (European Economic and Monetary Union) by evaluating the economic efficiency of growth policies of the 25 member countries. By using Data Envelopment Window Analysis the ... -
Economic fluctuations and political self-placement
(2013)This paper examines whether economic conditions affect citizens' political self-placement on the left-right scale of the political spectrum. A cohort of factors influence and determine such self-placements by citizens ... -
Economic growth and environmental efficiency: Evidence from US regions
(2013)This paper proposes a conditional directional distance function estimator in order to examine the link between regional environmental efficiency and GDP per capita levels. As an illustrative example we apply our model to ... -
Economic growth, efficiency and environmental elasticity for the G7 countries
(2019)In this study the non-parametric method of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is applied to determine the technical efficiency (TE) index of the G7 countries, when variable returns to scale (VRS) hold for the entire period ... -
Economic integration between the European Union and the transition economies of Central European Initiative countries
(2001)In this article we examine the main factors influencing trade and FDI flows between the transition countries of the Central European Initiative (CEI) and the EU member states. We distinguish three groups of CEI countries, ...