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Is Western European Agriculture Resilient to High Temperatures?
Massetti, Emanuele - 2019
We estimate a Ricardian model of Western European agricultural land values using farm-level data. We model the effect of temperature on land values using a flexible specification of daily mean temperature to test if there are temperature threshold effects. Results indicate that there are no...
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Financial Integration and European Tourism Stocks
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Yfanti, Stavroula; … - 2023
This study examines the macro drivers of the time-varying (dynamic) connectedness between eleven European tourism … estate activity. Further, economic and political uncertainty is found to intensify the macro effects on tourism correlations … crash, also magnify the impact of macro drivers on the evolution of co-movement and integration in the tourism sector …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014261022
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Looking back on anger: Explaining the social origins of left-wing and nationalist-separatist terrorism in Western Europe, 1970-2007
Brockhoff, Sarah; Krieger, Tim; Meierrieks, Daniel - 2012
A unique dataset is used to separately analyze the social origins of left-wing and nationalist-separatist terrorism in 17 Western European countries between 1970 and 2007. We argue that the differences in the historic roots, ultimate goals as well as their negotiability, levels of domestic and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281914
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We Were the Robots : Automation and Voting Behavior in Western Europe
Anelli, Massimo - 2019
We investigate the impact of robot adoption on electoral outcomes in 14 Western European countries, between 1993 and 2016. We employ both official election results at the district level and individual-level voting data, combined with party ideology scores from the Manifesto Project. We measure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012865699
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Voting Up? The Effects of Democracy and Franchise Extension on Human Stature
Batinti, Alberto - 2019
We study the health effects of the spread of democratic institutions and the extension of voting rights in 15 European countries since the middle of the nineteenth century. We employ both cross country and cohort variation in heights and employ a new instrument for democracy and the extension of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012866876
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Culture, Institutions & the Long Divergence
Bisin, Alberto; Rubin, Jared; Seror, Avner; Verdier, Thierry - 2021
Recent theories of the Long Divergence between Middle Eastern and Western European economies focus on Middle Eastern (over-)reliance on religious legitimacy, use of slave soldiers, and persistence of restrictive proscriptions of religious (Islamic) law. These theories take as exogenous the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013245626
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How New Airport Infrastructure Promotes Tourism : Evidence from a Synthetic Control Approach in German Regions
Doerr, Luisa - 2020
We examine how new airport infrastructure influences regional tourism. Identification is based on the conversion of a … new commercial airport increased tourism in the Allgäu region over the period 2008-2016. The positive effect is especially …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012844207
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The End of Tourist Traps : A Natural Experiment on the Impact of Tripadvisor on Quality Upgrading
Donati, Dante - 2022
Asymmetric information can distort market outcomes. I study how the online disclosure of information affects consumers’ behavior and firms’ incentives to upgrade product quality in markets where information is traditionally limited. I first build a model of consumer search with firms’...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014080609
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Exchange Rate Elasticities of International Tourism and the Role of Dominant Currency Pricing
Ding, Ding; Timmer, Yannick - 2022
We estimate exchange rate elasticities of international tourism. We show that, in addition to the bilateral exchange … rate, the exchange rate between the tourism origin country vis-à-vis the U.S. dollar is an important driver of tourism … flows, indicating a strong role of U.S. dollar pricing. The U.S. dollar exchange rate is more important for tourism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083483
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Tourism Persistence in the Southeastern European Countries : The Impact of COVID-19
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Imeri, Amir; Gil-Alana, Luis A. - 2022
This paper examines tourism persistence in a group of Southeastern European (SEE) countries (Albania, Bosnia, Bulgaria …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014243164