La diversificación de actividades productivas en las explotaciones agrarias es una realidad que va adquiriendo mayor relevancia frente a la tendencia hacia la especialización productiva. A partir de una encuesta a 125 explotaciones agrarias y una serie de entrevistas en profundidad se analizan...

Directors at large, publicly-listed firms tend to hold several directorships. The literature on quot;social networksquot; suggests that directors with multiple directorships may spread what they learn on one board to another board. This suggests that overlapping directors may cause corporate...

This paper studies the nexus between the property market and the macroeconomy of Mainland China in 1998-2004, using panel data models covering 31 provinces and major cities. The estimates suggest three main conclusions. First, there seemed to be a two-way linkage between property price and GDP...

The securities industry is more important than ever to the New York City economy, and a protracted downturn in the industry's employment could seriously hurt the overall job picture. Increased stability in other New York City industries, however, could help soften the economic effects of such a...

This paper proposes a new GMM estimator for spatial regression models with moving average errors. Monte Carlo results are given indicating that the GMM estimates are close to expectation and robust to non-normality, and the Bootstrap method is suggested as a way of testing the significance of...