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High Skills, High Growth: Is Tourism An Exception?
June 8, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Despite the emphasis placed by growth models on technological progress, recent empirical evidence shows that tourism, a low-skill/low-tech sector and one of the fastest growing industries in the...
Provided by Centre For North South Economic Research
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A Neoclassical Growth Model With Public Spending
January 17, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper analyses the effect of public expenditures in the context of a modified Solow model of capital accumulation with optimizing agents. The model identifies optimal government size and...
Provided by Centre For North South Economic Research
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To Give Or Not To Give? Equity, Efficiency And Altruistic Behavior In A Survey-based Experiment
December 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper presents the results of a survey-based experiment on the role of equity and efficiency for altruistic behavior. Using simple binary decisions for a representative pool of subjects, the...
Provided by Centre For North South Economic Research
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Education Or Just Creativity: What Matters Most For Economic Performance?
December 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
There is a large consensus among researchers on the positive role played by human capital on economic performances although the debate on its measurement (education or creativity) is still open....
Provided by Centre For North South Economic Research
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TFP Convergence Across European Regions: A Comparative Spatial Dynamics Analysis
December 24, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper proposes a fixed-effect panel methodology that enables one to simultaneously take into account both TFP and traditional neoclassical convergence. The authors analyze a sample of 199...
Provided by Centre For North South Economic Research
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Investigating The Behavior Of Embarking Cruisers In A Caribbean Homeport: A Factor And A Censured-Tobit Analysis
December 24, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper analyses embarking cruisers' experience in a homeport. Survey data were collected from passengers that embarked in Cartagena de Indias (Colombia) during the 2009-2010season. A...
Provided by Centre For North South Economic Research
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Cycles In Crime And Economy: Leading, Lagging And Coincident Behaviors
November 17, 2010, 12:00am PST
In the last decades, the interest in the relationship between crime and business cycle has widely increased. It is a diffused opinion that a causal relationship goes from economic variables to...
Provided by Centre For North South Economic Research
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Z-estimators And Auxiliary Information Under Weak Dependence
November 17, 2010, 12:00am PST
In this paper the authors introduce a weighted Z-estimator for moment condition models in the presence of auxiliary information on the unknown distribution of the data under the assumption of weak...
Provided by Centre For North South Economic Research
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Risk-taking And Asset-side Contagion In An Originate-to-distribute Banking Model
October 19, 2010, 12:00am PDT
During the Subprime crisis the entire banking industry risked collapsing under an unprecedented lack of liquidity. This work tries and find what channel allowed a relatively small systemic shock,...
Provided by Centre For North South Economic Research
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Optimal Leniency Programs In Antitrust
October 19, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper analyses the incentive structure underlying the adoption of leniency programs in antitrust enforcement. The enforcement of competition law is treated as the delegation of the economic...
Provided by Centre For North South Economic Research
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A Literature Review On The Tourism-led-growth Hypothesis
October 19, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The aim of this paper is to provide a comprehensive literature review on the temporal relationship between tourism and economic growth. Specifically, the role of such an economic activity, as a...
Provided by Centre For North South Economic Research
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Reconsidering The Well-being: The Happy Planet Index And The Issue Of Missing Data
April 30, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The main aim of this paper is to build up and to analyze a composite indicator, the Happy Planet Index (HPI), as an alternative measure to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in evaluating nations'...
Provided by Centre For North South Economic Research
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Measures Of Wealth And Well-being. A Comparison Between GDP And ISEW
April 30, 2010, 12:00am PDT
It is well known that, as a measure of well-being, the Gross Domestic Product does not reflect the real wealth of a country but just its monetary counterpart. Thus, it is not fit to differentiate...
Provided by Centre For North South Economic Research
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Over-signaling Vs Underpricing: The Role Of Financial Intermediaries In Initial Public Offerings
December 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
The authors consider a model of Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) where issuing firms of better quality are more reluctant to go public. IPOs either generate or destroy value depending on the type...
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Crossing The Alps: Three Transport Policy Options
January 7, 2008, 12:00am PST
In recent years crossing the Alps has become a central issue in transport policy. The constant increase in global transport flow has contributed to bringing two distinct objectives to the centre...
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Delegation, Externalities And Organizational Design
November 9, 2007, 12:00am PST
In multi unit organizations, with externalities (the choices made by one unit affect the profit of the others); two key factors will drive the task allocation problem: externalities and asymmetric...
Provided by Centre For North South Economic Research
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Assessing Visitor Satisfaction With Tourism Rejuvenation Policies: The Case Of Rimini, Italy
November 13, 2007, 12:00am PST
In this paper the authors assess the appeal of potential interventions on the tourism offer of Rimini, a popular Italian seaside holiday destination, by means of a choice modeling analysis....
Provided by Centre For North South Economic Research
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Knowledge Flows Across European Regions
July 11, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The recent resurgence of growth studies has clearly established that technological progress and knowledge accumulation are among the most important factors in determining the performance of...
Provided by Centre For North South Economic Research
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Precautionary Savings Under Liquidity Constraints: Evidence From Italy
December 29, 2009, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the author empirically investigates precautionary savings under liquidity constraints in Italy using household panel data. Following Jappelli and Pistaferri (2000) the author...
Provided by Centre For North South Economic Research
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Clustering Heteroskedastic Time Series By Model-Based Procedures
February 12, 2008, 12:00am PST
Financial time series are often characterized by similar volatility structures, often represented by GARCH processes. The detection of clusters of series displaying similar behavior could be...
Provided by Centre For North South Economic Research
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Improving The Forecasting Of Dynamic Conditional Correlation: A Volatility Dependent Approach
November 27, 2009, 12:00am PST
Forecasting volatility in a multivariate framework has received many contributions in the recent literature, but problems in estimation are still frequently encountered when dealing with a large...
Provided by Centre For North South Economic Research
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Can National Survey Data Be Used To Select A Core Set Of Indicators For Monitoring The Sustainability Of Urban Mobility Policies?
October 29, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The gradual expansion of urban transport systems brings a series of undesirable socio-economic and environmental impacts that affect the quality of life in cities. Assessing the performance of...
Provided by Centre For North South Economic Research
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They Arrive With New Information: Tourism Flows And Production Efficiency In The European Regions
October 29, 2009, 12:00am PDT
It is well known that firms productivity is influenced by information spillovers generated either by other firms located nearby or by direct contacts with final demand or by foreign demand in the...
Provided by Centre For North South Economic Research
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Entry Barriers In Retail Trade
September 9, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The 1998 reform of the Italian retail trade sector delegated the regulation of entry of large stores to the regional governments. The authors use the local variation in regulation to determine the...
Provided by Centre For North South Economic Research
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The Design Of Voluntary Agreements In Oligopolistic Markets
July 29, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper analyses the conditions under which a group of firms is incentivised to sign a Voluntary Agreement (VA) to control polluting emissions even in the presence of free-riding by other firms...
Provided by Centre For North South Economic Research
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A Partecipative Procedure To Select Indicators Of Sustainable Urban Mobility Policies
July 22, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Starting from an original framework based on four dimensions and thirteen objectives of sustainable urban mobility policies, this paper advocates the selection of a core set of performance...
Provided by Centre For North South Economic Research
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Agglomeration And Growth With Endogenous Expediture Shares
October 20, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The authors develop a New Economic Geography and Growth model which, by using a CES utility function in the second-stage optimization problem, allows for expenditure shares in industrial goods to...
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Measuring Productivity
December 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Quantifying productivity is a conditio sine qua non for empirical analysis in a number of research fields. The identification of the measure that best fits with the specific goals of the analysis,...
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Clustering Mutual Funds By Return And Risk Levels
July 23, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Mutual funds classifications, often made by rating agencies, are very common and sometimes criticized. In this paper, a three-step statistical procedure for mutual funds classification is...
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Impact Analysis Of Regional Knowledge Subsidy: A CGE Approach
July 18, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In this paper the authors present a computable general equilibrium model for the region of Sardinia for the purpose of evaluating the capacity of R&D policies to affect the long run rate of...
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Asset Allocation Using Flexible Dynamic Correlation Models With Regime Switching
July 16, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The asset allocation decision is often considered as a trade-off between maximizing the expected return of a portfolio and minimizing the portfolio risk. The riskiness is evaluated in terms of...
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Asset Allocation Using Flexible Dynamic Correlation Models With Regime Switching
July 16, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The asset allocation decision is often considered as a trade-off between maximizing the expected return of a portfolio and minimizing the portfolio risk. The riskiness is evaluated in terms of...
Provided by Centre For North South Economic Research
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White Papers
Impact Analysis Of Regional Knowledge Subsidy: A CGE Approach
July 18, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In this paper the authors present a computable general equilibrium model for the region of Sardinia for the purpose of evaluating the capacity of R&D policies to affect the long run rate of...
Provided by Centre For North South Economic Research
-
White Papers
Clustering Mutual Funds By Return And Risk Levels
July 23, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Mutual funds classifications, often made by rating agencies, are very common and sometimes criticized. In this paper, a three-step statistical procedure for mutual funds classification is...
Provided by Centre For North South Economic Research
-
White Papers
Measuring Productivity
December 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Quantifying productivity is a conditio sine qua non for empirical analysis in a number of research fields. The identification of the measure that best fits with the specific goals of the analysis,...
Provided by Centre For North South Economic Research
-
White Papers
Agglomeration And Growth With Endogenous Expediture Shares
October 20, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The authors develop a New Economic Geography and Growth model which, by using a CES utility function in the second-stage optimization problem, allows for expenditure shares in industrial goods to...
Provided by Centre For North South Economic Research
-
White Papers
A Partecipative Procedure To Select Indicators Of Sustainable Urban Mobility Policies
July 22, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Starting from an original framework based on four dimensions and thirteen objectives of sustainable urban mobility policies, this paper advocates the selection of a core set of performance...
Provided by Centre For North South Economic Research
-
White Papers
The Design Of Voluntary Agreements In Oligopolistic Markets
July 29, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper analyses the conditions under which a group of firms is incentivised to sign a Voluntary Agreement (VA) to control polluting emissions even in the presence of free-riding by other firms...
Provided by Centre For North South Economic Research
-
White Papers
Entry Barriers In Retail Trade
September 9, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The 1998 reform of the Italian retail trade sector delegated the regulation of entry of large stores to the regional governments. The authors use the local variation in regulation to determine the...
Provided by Centre For North South Economic Research
-
White Papers
They Arrive With New Information: Tourism Flows And Production Efficiency In The European Regions
October 29, 2009, 12:00am PDT
It is well known that firms productivity is influenced by information spillovers generated either by other firms located nearby or by direct contacts with final demand or by foreign demand in the...
Provided by Centre For North South Economic Research
-
White Papers
Can National Survey Data Be Used To Select A Core Set Of Indicators For Monitoring The Sustainability Of Urban Mobility Policies?
October 29, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The gradual expansion of urban transport systems brings a series of undesirable socio-economic and environmental impacts that affect the quality of life in cities. Assessing the performance of...
Provided by Centre For North South Economic Research
-
White Papers
Improving The Forecasting Of Dynamic Conditional Correlation: A Volatility Dependent Approach
November 27, 2009, 12:00am PST
Forecasting volatility in a multivariate framework has received many contributions in the recent literature, but problems in estimation are still frequently encountered when dealing with a large...
Provided by Centre For North South Economic Research
-
White Papers
Clustering Heteroskedastic Time Series By Model-Based Procedures
February 12, 2008, 12:00am PST
Financial time series are often characterized by similar volatility structures, often represented by GARCH processes. The detection of clusters of series displaying similar behavior could be...
Provided by Centre For North South Economic Research
-
White Papers
Precautionary Savings Under Liquidity Constraints: Evidence From Italy
December 29, 2009, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the author empirically investigates precautionary savings under liquidity constraints in Italy using household panel data. Following Jappelli and Pistaferri (2000) the author...
Provided by Centre For North South Economic Research
-
White Papers
Knowledge Flows Across European Regions
July 11, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The recent resurgence of growth studies has clearly established that technological progress and knowledge accumulation are among the most important factors in determining the performance of...
Provided by Centre For North South Economic Research
-
White Papers
Assessing Visitor Satisfaction With Tourism Rejuvenation Policies: The Case Of Rimini, Italy
November 13, 2007, 12:00am PST
In this paper the authors assess the appeal of potential interventions on the tourism offer of Rimini, a popular Italian seaside holiday destination, by means of a choice modeling analysis....
Provided by Centre For North South Economic Research
-
White Papers
Delegation, Externalities And Organizational Design
November 9, 2007, 12:00am PST
In multi unit organizations, with externalities (the choices made by one unit affect the profit of the others); two key factors will drive the task allocation problem: externalities and asymmetric...
Provided by Centre For North South Economic Research
-
White Papers
Crossing The Alps: Three Transport Policy Options
January 7, 2008, 12:00am PST
In recent years crossing the Alps has become a central issue in transport policy. The constant increase in global transport flow has contributed to bringing two distinct objectives to the centre...
Provided by Centre For North South Economic Research
-
White Papers
Over-signaling Vs Underpricing: The Role Of Financial Intermediaries In Initial Public Offerings
December 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
The authors consider a model of Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) where issuing firms of better quality are more reluctant to go public. IPOs either generate or destroy value depending on the type...
Provided by Centre For North South Economic Research
-
White Papers
Measures Of Wealth And Well-being. A Comparison Between GDP And ISEW
April 30, 2010, 12:00am PDT
It is well known that, as a measure of well-being, the Gross Domestic Product does not reflect the real wealth of a country but just its monetary counterpart. Thus, it is not fit to differentiate...
Provided by Centre For North South Economic Research
-
White Papers
Reconsidering The Well-being: The Happy Planet Index And The Issue Of Missing Data
April 30, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The main aim of this paper is to build up and to analyze a composite indicator, the Happy Planet Index (HPI), as an alternative measure to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in evaluating nations'...
Provided by Centre For North South Economic Research
-
White Papers
High Skills, High Growth: Is Tourism An Exception?
June 8, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Despite the emphasis placed by growth models on technological progress, recent empirical evidence shows that tourism, a low-skill/low-tech sector and one of the fastest growing industries in the...
Provided by Centre For North South Economic Research
-
White Papers
A Literature Review On The Tourism-led-growth Hypothesis
October 19, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The aim of this paper is to provide a comprehensive literature review on the temporal relationship between tourism and economic growth. Specifically, the role of such an economic activity, as a...
Provided by Centre For North South Economic Research
-
White Papers
Optimal Leniency Programs In Antitrust
October 19, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper analyses the incentive structure underlying the adoption of leniency programs in antitrust enforcement. The enforcement of competition law is treated as the delegation of the economic...
Provided by Centre For North South Economic Research
-
White Papers
Risk-taking And Asset-side Contagion In An Originate-to-distribute Banking Model
October 19, 2010, 12:00am PDT
During the Subprime crisis the entire banking industry risked collapsing under an unprecedented lack of liquidity. This work tries and find what channel allowed a relatively small systemic shock,...
Provided by Centre For North South Economic Research
-
White Papers
Z-estimators And Auxiliary Information Under Weak Dependence
November 17, 2010, 12:00am PST
In this paper the authors introduce a weighted Z-estimator for moment condition models in the presence of auxiliary information on the unknown distribution of the data under the assumption of weak...
Provided by Centre For North South Economic Research
-
White Papers
Cycles In Crime And Economy: Leading, Lagging And Coincident Behaviors
November 17, 2010, 12:00am PST
In the last decades, the interest in the relationship between crime and business cycle has widely increased. It is a diffused opinion that a causal relationship goes from economic variables to...
Provided by Centre For North South Economic Research
-
White Papers
Investigating The Behavior Of Embarking Cruisers In A Caribbean Homeport: A Factor And A Censured-Tobit Analysis
December 24, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper analyses embarking cruisers' experience in a homeport. Survey data were collected from passengers that embarked in Cartagena de Indias (Colombia) during the 2009-2010season. A...
Provided by Centre For North South Economic Research
-
White Papers
TFP Convergence Across European Regions: A Comparative Spatial Dynamics Analysis
December 24, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper proposes a fixed-effect panel methodology that enables one to simultaneously take into account both TFP and traditional neoclassical convergence. The authors analyze a sample of 199...
Provided by Centre For North South Economic Research
-
White Papers
Education Or Just Creativity: What Matters Most For Economic Performance?
December 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
There is a large consensus among researchers on the positive role played by human capital on economic performances although the debate on its measurement (education or creativity) is still open....
Provided by Centre For North South Economic Research
-
White Papers
To Give Or Not To Give? Equity, Efficiency And Altruistic Behavior In A Survey-based Experiment
December 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper presents the results of a survey-based experiment on the role of equity and efficiency for altruistic behavior. Using simple binary decisions for a representative pool of subjects, the...
Provided by Centre For North South Economic Research
-
White Papers
A Neoclassical Growth Model With Public Spending
January 17, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper analyses the effect of public expenditures in the context of a modified Solow model of capital accumulation with optimizing agents. The model identifies optimal government size and...
Provided by Centre For North South Economic Research
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