When skilled labour is imported to work in a creative industry, local workers may benefit, in terms of their own level of skill, through contact with new techniques and practices. European basketball offers an opportunity to investigate the reality of this general claim. For a panel of 47...

Meeting the goals of sustainable growth of food production and reducing rural poverty requires assisting family farmers to develop more productive, profitable, resource efficient and environmentally friendly farms. Faced with decreasing product prices and increasing production costs during the...

This work studies long-term autocorrelation asymmetries in the dynamics of crude oil markets for prices in the period from 1986 to 2014. Autocorrelations in crude oil price returns are quantified in terms of the Hurst exponent estimated with the rescaled range (R/S) method. The results obtained...