The objective of the present paper is to examine market conduct and its determinants in the Greek food industry and to measure how and to what degree the industry and the firm's structural characteristics affect advertising intensity. An advertising intensity model giving emphasis to intangible...

In this study, we attempt to examine the possibility of emergence of significant fluctuations of the exchange rates in the future for the candidate EMU countries. In doing so, we estimate the equilibrium rate of the nominal effective exchange rate for Poland, Hungary, Slovak Republic and Malta...

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate empirically regional convergence in Greece during the 1981-1991 period of participation in the European Economic Community (EEC). Census data at NUTS III level of regional disaggregation are used. A number of structural policies undertaken in the 1980s,...

1. Computational methods and tools for decision support in biomedicine / Ioannis Dimou ... [et al.] -- 2. Integrating imaging and clinical data for decision support / William Hsu ... [et al.] -- 3. Analysis and quantification of motion within the cardiovascular system / Spyretta Golemati, John...

In this paper, we examine the inflation persistence puzzle by applying the robust control approach of Hansen and Sargent (2008). In line with the literature suggesting that inflation persistence may be affected by the monetary policy design and its institutional characteristics, we find that...

This paper addresses the issue of impacts of central banks’ transparency on stock market volatility. Using a simple theoretical macroeconomic model, we analytically find a negative link between stock prices volatility and central bank transparency. By applying panel data analysis on a set of...

[fre] L'objectif de cet article est de rechercher un mécanisme de propagation des chocs susceptible d''expliquer l'émergence des phénomènes de persistance du taux de chômage en Allemagne. Notre travail s''appuie sur un modèle théorique au travers duquel nous construisons la dynamique qui...

In a setting with a risk-adverse union, we study the effects of central bank's political transparency on wage level and inflation volatility according to its degree of conservativeness. We obtain some results that contrast with these obtained in the same kind of model or in a Rogoff type model...