The Olympic Games are among the largest and most visible sporting events in the world. Every twoyears, the world’s best athletes from some 200 countries come together to compete in lavish new venues in front of thousands of spectators. Hundreds of millions of sports fans worldwide watch the...

Economic competitiveness is today, more than ever, related to business innovation capacity. Given this fact, the present paper offers an insight into the contemporary pattern of innovativeness of small and medium size enterprises (SMEs), which often represent the most dynamic actors in national...

This paper presents state-of-the-art conceptual and empirical output of recent research work on the identification of the factors that determine the innovativeness and competitiveness of SMEs in Europe and East Asian countries. In the context of globalisation, new technology and learning-based...

The present paper is based on state-of-the-art research in European and Asian labour-intensive and technology-intensive industries, concerning the competitiveness of small and medium size enterprises in the context of knowledge-economy. Cross-country and cross-industry econometric analysis of...

This paper tried to examine the level of cointegration among various nations across the continents in regard to the globalisation. Also here attempt is made to analyse the nature of inter and intra continental variation in globalisation over time. The proximity and convergence over time in terms...

Using a rich database of non-prime mortgages from New York City, we find that census tract level neighborhood characteristics are important predictors of default behavior, even after controlling for an extensive set of controls for loan and borrower characteristics. First, default rates increase...

<b>RESUMEN:</b><br> <br> Este trabajo pretende aportar nueva evidencia empírica sobre los efectos que ciertos factores empresariales ejercen en la formación de la estructura financiera de las PYMES, debido al importante papel que confiere la literatura financiera a tales factores. El estudio se ha...

<b>Resumen:</b><br> <br> A lo largo de la última década Andalucía se ha caracterizado por vivir un intenso proceso de convergencia con la economía nacional, pese a lo cual sigue manteniendo respecto a ésta, así como respecto a la mayoría de las Comunidades Autónomas (CC.AA.), un gap elevado en...

<b>Resumen:</b><br> <br> En este trabajo se analiza la estructura del gasto de los hogares españoles en las distintas Comunidades Autónomas y su variación a través de los datos que suministra la Encuesta de Presupuestos Familiares. Se realiza una estimación de los distintos tipos efectivos que soportan...

<b>Resumen:</b><br> <br> En este trabajo se estiman los rendimientos del capital humano en la hostelería española utilizando una versión ampliada de la ecuación de salarios de Mincer (1974) y se cuantifican las diferencias salariales de las principales regiones turísticas a partir de la descomposición...