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        <title><![CDATA[Asset Allocation Using Flexible Dynamic Correlation Models With Regime Switching]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Impact Analysis Of Regional Knowledge Subsidy: A CGE Approach]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[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&amp;D policies to affect the long run rate of...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Clustering Mutual Funds By Return And Risk Levels]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Measuring Productivity]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[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,...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Agglomeration And Growth With Endogenous Expediture Shares]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[A Partecipative Procedure To Select Indicators Of Sustainable Urban Mobility Policies]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The Design Of Voluntary Agreements In Oligopolistic Markets]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Entry Barriers In Retail Trade]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[They Arrive With New Information: Tourism Flows And Production Efficiency In The European Regions]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Can National Survey Data Be Used To Select A Core Set Of Indicators For Monitoring The Sustainability Of Urban Mobility Policies?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Improving The Forecasting Of Dynamic Conditional Correlation: A Volatility Dependent Approach]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Clustering Heteroskedastic Time Series By Model-Based Procedures]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Precautionary Savings Under Liquidity Constraints: Evidence From Italy]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Knowledge Flows Across European Regions]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Assessing Visitor Satisfaction With Tourism Rejuvenation Policies: The Case Of Rimini, Italy]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[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....]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Delegation, Externalities And Organizational Design]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Crossing The Alps: Three Transport Policy Options]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 08:04:31 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Over-signaling Vs Underpricing: The Role Of Financial Intermediaries In Initial Public Offerings]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/whitepapers/over-signaling-vs-underpricing-the-role-of-financial-intermediaries-in-initial-public-offerings/2703087]]></link>
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        <description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Measures Of Wealth And Well-being. A Comparison Between GDP And ISEW]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/whitepapers/measures-of-wealth-and-well-being-a-comparison-between-gdp-and-isew/2703081]]></link>
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        <description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 08:01:27 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Reconsidering The Well-being: The Happy Planet Index And The Issue Of Missing Data]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[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'...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[High Skills, High Growth: Is Tourism An Exception?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[A Literature Review On The Tourism-led-growth Hypothesis]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Optimal Leniency Programs In Antitrust]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Risk-taking And Asset-side Contagion In An Originate-to-distribute Banking Model]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[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,...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Z-estimators And Auxiliary Information Under Weak Dependence]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Cycles In Crime And Economy: Leading, Lagging And Coincident Behaviors]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/whitepapers/cycles-in-crime-and-economy-leading-lagging-and-coincident-behaviors/2703039]]></link>
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        <description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Investigating The Behavior Of Embarking Cruisers In A Caribbean Homeport: A Factor And A Censured-Tobit Analysis]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/whitepapers/investigating-the-behavior-of-embarking-cruisers-in-a-caribbean-homeport-a-factor-and-a-censured-tobit-analysis/2703031]]></link>
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        <description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[TFP Convergence Across European Regions: A Comparative Spatial Dynamics Analysis]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/whitepapers/tfp-convergence-across-european-regions-a-comparative-spatial-dynamics-analysis/2703023]]></link>
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        <description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Education Or Just Creativity: What Matters Most For Economic Performance?]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/whitepapers/education-or-just-creativity-what-matters-most-for-economic-performance/2703019]]></link>
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        <description><![CDATA[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....]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[To Give Or Not To Give? Equity, Efficiency And Altruistic Behavior In A Survey-based Experiment]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[A Neoclassical Growth Model With Public Spending]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 07:43:49 -0800</pubDate>
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