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The nexus between creative workforce and economic development: looking for the causal relation

Russo, Antonio Paolo; Domínguez, Alan Quaglieri; … - 2012

Building on work funded by the ESPON 2013 Program, the paper analyses the regional trajectories of development of a "creative workforce" among its active population against regional economic growth, measured by changes in per capita GDP over the period 2001-2008 in 317 NUTS2 regions of the ESPON...

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Are Economists Rational? On the Rationality of the 'Rational Choice' Paradigm

Binswanger, Johannes - 2010

Today, an overwhelming part of academic analysis is based on the rational choice paradigm. This is true, in particular, for theoretical analyses; but it also holds for empirical analyses as far as they are based on a structural model. It also holds in spite of the existence of the behavioral...

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Criminality spread: A "boomerang effect" of public transport improvements?

Bacares, Carlos Augusto Olarte - 2013

This paper aims to reveal the importance of public transport policies in the evolution of crime configuration and so, the vital responsibility of urban transports and criminality in social sprawl, entrepreneurial configuration and social structure on a city. Public transport policies have an...

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Do public transport improvements increase employment and income in a city?

Bacares, Carlos Augusto Olarte - 2013

dependent variable (3), the validation of endogeneity gives enough tools to infer a positive or a negative causality of … causality relationship changes depending on the size of companies established on each zone. Results of this empirical research … give some robust evidences. In the case of Bogotá, public transports improvements have a causality relationship on the …

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Child Costs and the Causal Effect of Fertility on Female Labor Supply: An investigation for Indonesia 1993-2008

Priebe, Jan - 2011

Over the last two decades Indonesia has experienced a significant decline in fertility rates and substantial increases in the level of education of women. Despite this development female labor force participation rates have remained roughly constant throughout this period. This paper explores...

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Bitcoin and Web Search Query Dynamics: Is the price driving the hype or is the hype driving the price?

Süssmuth, Bernd - 2019

search queries with regard to their mutual predictability, Granger-causality and cause-effect delay structure. The Bitcoin is … relatively high frequencies ranging from two to five months. In the other direction, causality runs from the cryptocurrency price … measure for the relevant frequency bands with significant causality ranges from slightly more than one month to about four …

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Farm size and profitability: The village as collateral factor

Merce, Cristian C.; Merce, Emilian; Pocol, Cristina Bianca - 2016

The goal of the study is to analyse and compare agrarian structures in several EU countries, analysed separately according to their degree of economic consolidation. The study points out that, in order to characterize the agrarian structures of a country, is not sufficient to determine the...

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ICT Use, Connectivity, and Innovation Capability in Japanese SMEs

Shigeno, Hidenori; Tsuji, Masatsugu; Matsuzaki, Taisuke; … - 2017

This paper seeks to construct a new theory on SME innovation by reviewing and comprehending findings and knowledge obtained to date from a unified perspective. Conventional research on innovation in general has focused thematically on individual factors such as absorptive capability, R&D, and...

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Elasticities of Regional and Local Administrations Expenditures - the Portuguese case

Mourão, Paulo - 2004

expenditures. JEL Codes: H50; H54; H72; C13 Keywords: Public Expenditures; Cointegration; Decentralization …

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Cointegration of Matched Home Purchases and Rental Price Indexes ¨C Evidence from Singapore

Li, Jing; Baltagi, Badi - 2015

This paper exploits the homogeneity feature of the Singapore private residential condominium market and constructs matched home purchase price and rental price series using the repeated sales method. These matched series allow us to conduct time series analysis to examine the long-term present...

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