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Fossil and renewable energy stock indices : connectedness and the COP meetings

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Spagnolo, Nicola; Almajali, Awon - 2022

This paper investigates static and dynamic connectedness between the first and second moments of fossil and renewable energy stock indices in the last decade at the daily frequency. For this purpose the Diebold and Yilmaz (2014) methodology is applied; in addition, endogenous break tests are...

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European SMEs and resource efficiency measures : firm characteristics and contextual factors

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Donati, Cristiana; Spagnolo, … - 2023

and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) to adopt different types of resource efficiency measures (REMs), possibly …

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Energy consumption in the GCC countries : evidence on persistence

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Gil-Alaña, Luis A.; Monge, … - 2019

This paper examines the statistical properties of energy consumption in the GCC countries applying fractional integration methods to annual data from 1980 to 2014. The results indicate that both the raw and the logged series exhibit a (statistically significant) linear time trend in the case of...

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The Covid-19 pandemic and European trade flows : evidence from a dynamic panel model

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Sova, Anamaria Diana; Sova, … - 2022

This paper investigates the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on trade flows in the case of the European countries. First, an ARDL dynamic panel model is estimated using the PMG method to analyse monthly data covering the most recent period (2019M1-2021M12); then, the GMM and PCSE approaches are...

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Incentives to work and performance in the public sector

Oikonomidēs, Geōrgios; Philippopulos, Apostolēs; … - 2015

productive efficiency, in the public sector. We focus on reforms aiming to establish parity between work conditions in the public …

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Trade intensity and output synchronisation : on the endogeneity properties of EMU

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; De Santis, Roberta; Girardi, … - 2013

Using annual bilateral data over the period 1988-2011 for a panel of 24 industrialised and emerging economies, we analyse in a time-varying framework the determinants of output synchronisation in EMU (European Monetary Union) distinguishing between core and peripheral member states. The results...

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The Covid-19 pandemic and European trade patterns : a sectoral analysis

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Sova, Anamaria Diana; Sova, … - 2022

This paper examines how the Covid-19 pandemic affected European trade patterns. Specifically, dynamic panel data models are estimated to assess the effects on exports and imports of various sectors and products (selected on the basis of their trading volume or strategic importance) of the...

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Are user fees really regressive?

Oikonomidēs, Geōrgios; Philippopulos, Apostolēs - 2012

by the Ramsey government not only increases aggregate efficiency, but it also decreases inequality. This result is in … contrast to common view and policy practice. -- user fees ; Ramsey taxation ; efficiency ; inequality …

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The role of government in anti-social redistributive activities

Angelopoulos, Konstantinos (contributor); … - 2005

government share in GDP; and as a measure of government efficiency, we construct an index by following the methodology of Afonso … efficiency. Specifically, while a larger size of government is bad for incentives when one ignores efficiency, the results change … drastically when government efficiency is also taken into account. Only when our measure of size exceeds our measure of efficiency …

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Public providers, versus private providers, of public goods : a general equilibrium study of the role of the state

Oikonomidēs, Geōrgios; Philippopulos, Apostolēs; … - 2011

providers cannot beat private providers in terms of aggregate efficiency. We finally design a transfer scheme that can make a …

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