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Subjective well-being and selected economic, demographic, and job factors in OECD countries

Marilou, Ioakimidis; Kiohos, Apostolos - In: Advances in management & applied economics 2 (2012) 3, pp. 71-81

This study compared 10 economic, demographic, and job factors between happier and less happy OECD countries based upon scores of subjective well-being (SWB), a concept commonly meaning happiness or life satisfaction. In 2009, the scores of residents in the happier OE CD countries were...

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Multicriteria evaluation of national entrepreneurship in newly EU countries

Zvirblis, Algis; Buracas, Antanas - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 4 (2011) 1, pp. 79-94

When evaluating entrepreneurship at the national level, the influence of small and mediumsized enterprises (SMEs) on the state economic development is analyzed. Also, the impact of significant factors (goods and services competitiveness, innovations, diversification, clusterization, creating...

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How does economic crisis change the landscape of real convergence for Central and Eastern Europe?

Alexe, Ileana - In: Romanian journal of fiscal policy : RJFP 3 (2012) 1, pp. 1-8

The paper aims at analyzing the impact of the recent economic crisis on the real convergence with the Euro area for ten … benchmark years for our study and GDP per capita at PPP, as the most relevant indicator in terms of real convergence. The study … Euro area average, while Poland and Slovakia improved their convergence. -- real convergence ; Euclidian distances …

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Alternativas metodológicas para el cálculo de las series retrospectivas regionales de EPA tras el cambio en la Clasificación Nacional de Actividades Económicas

Pavía, José M.; Fabuel, Francisco; Morillas, Francisco G. - In: Revista de métodos cuantitativos para la economía y … 14 (2012), pp. 76-123

In order to overcome the potential loss of information that the transition to the new National Classification of Economic Activities could provoke in EPA series, INE has proposed a methodology to link CNAE 1993 and CNAE 2009 series. The procedure is based on employing a national transition...

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A chronology of turning points in economic activity : Spain, 1850 – 2011

Berge, Travis J.; Jordà, Òscar - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 4 (2013) 1, pp. 1-34

This paper codifies in a systematic and transparent way a historical chronology of business cycle turning points for Spain reaching back to 1850 at annual frequency, and 1939 at monthly frequency. Such an exercise would be incomplete without assessing the new chronology itself and against...

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A factor analysis for the Spanish economy

Cuevas, Ángel; Quilis, Enrique M. - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 3 (2012) 3, pp. 311-338

We present a medium-scale dynamic factor model to estimate and forecast the rate of growth of the Spanish economy in the very short term. The intermediate size of the model overcomes the serious specification problems associated with large scale-models and the implicit loss of information of...

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Distribución espacial de la pobreza en Chile

Agostini, Claudio A.; Brown, Philip H.; Góngora, Diana … - In: Estudios de economía 35 (2008) 1, pp. 79-110

Chile's recent success in reducing poverty has been remarkable, with poverty rates falling by approximately two-thirds over the last 20 years. However, further gains against poverty may be inhibited by the increasing difficulty associated with targeting fewer poor people and better, more...

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Infrastructure, knowledge and economic growth in China : 1953–2004

Ramesh, Sangaralingam - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 5 (2012) 1, pp. 23-50

This paper evaluates the economic development of China using the New Economic Geography (NEG) as a framework of analysis. The NEG addresses the formation of agglomeration economies accruing to physical linkages in one location leading to the formation of a coreperiphery pattern between the...

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Geographic positioning as a determination of tourism development of Gevgelija region

Gjorgievski, Mijalce; Gramatnikovski, Sasko; Nakovski, Dejan - In: UTMS journal of economics / University of Tourism and … 4 (2013) 1, pp. 61-69

The research of this paper is about casinos in the southernmost city in the Republic of Macedonia – Gevgelija, its geographical position and their role on the development of gambling tourism. Gambling tourism as a special form of tourism, for some world famous tourist destinations is the main...

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Algunas observaciones acerca del uso de software en la estimación del modelo Half-Normal

Ortega Irizo, Francisco Javier; Gavilán Ruiz, José Manuel - In: Revista de métodos cuantitativos para la economía y … 11 (2011), pp. 3-16

Using the maximum likelihood method, in order to estimate Half-Normal stochastic frontier production models, entails several practical di±culties that, perhaps, have not been su±ciently emphasised. In employing FRONTIER software, we analyse the case in which the estimation obtained suggests...

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