This master thesis discusses selected topics of Functional Data Analysis (FDA). FDA deals with the random variables (and process) with realizations in the (smooth) functional space. The first part of this thesis introduces the basic assumptions, notation and ideas of FDA, here we will mainly...

This paper depicts a typology of regions, capturing the diversity of regional innovationsystems across the EU-10 (the enlargement member States). Following the RegionalInnovation Systems (RIS) literature, our research selects 21 variables related to theability of a region to generate and absorb...

The Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI) has been proposed by collaboration of the World Economic Forum, Geneva, Center for International Earth Science Information Network, Columbia University, and Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy, New Haven as a measure of the overall state of...

It is well known that income per capita and most widely reported non-economic well-being achievement measures are highly correlated among countries. Yet many countries exhibit higher achievement in the latter than predicted by the former. The reverse is true for many other countries. This paper...

The aim of this research is to examine the reasons of the level of FDI inflow differences among countries and try to understand why some countries are more attractive for investors. The research used a dataset of 103 countries for due to data availability and created a FDI Inflow Index for 2016....

En este trabajo se analiza el posicionamiento económico de España en el exterior, mediante la elaboración de un indicador sintético que toma en consideración los intercambios comerciales (bienes, servicios y turismo) y las posiciones de inversión extranjera directa, agregados a través de...

Dynamic factor models (DFM) and dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models are widely used for empirical research in macroeconomics. The empirical factor literature argues that the co-movement of large panels of macroeconomic and financial data can be captured by relatively few common...

En los países donde existe un elevado grado de descentralización administrativa, la dimensión regional cobra especial relevancia, dada la existencia de interacciones entre la actividad de las regiones o de posibles impactos asimétricos de las perturbaciones macroeconómicas que afectan al...

This paper shows that the response of agricultural commodity prices in the U.S. related to fluctuations in oil prices in the international market may differ greatly depending on whether the increase is driven by demand or supply shocks in the crude oil market. In the long-run, around 2-7 percent...

Intertemporal general-equilibrium models with Keynesian features such as imperfect competition and imperfectly flexible prices which give rise to a (at least) short-run non-neutrality of monetary policy have become the workhorse model for monetary macroeconomics. This thesis now makes four...