assessing the decreasing role of geographical distance (as a result of globalisation) in the world economy spatial econometric techniquesDecreasing role of distance increasing importance of financial openness as channel of spillovers aross countries

This paper presents a comparative analysis of innovation behaviour at the firm level across countries with different levels of technological development. The literature has argued mostly from a macroeconomic perspective (e.g. Silverberg and Verspagen 1995, Acemoglu – Aghion – Zillibotti...

In this paper we look at the evolution of the R&D intensity gap between the EU and its major competitors using data from the Industrial Scoreboard covering the period 2002-2010. We focus on R&D intensity as it is normally recognized as an important determinant of the competitiveness of economic...

The Flemish economy is a very open economy and as such heavily relies on trade with both the neighbouring economies as well as more distanced economies and it also tries to attract foreign direct investments. The paper reviews the evolution and interrelation of some competitiveness indicators in...

The aim of this paper is to carry out a sectorial causality analysis between prices and unit labour costs for the Spanish regions. In order to achieve our goal, we have developed our own database for the unit labour costs (ULC). It includes data for Spain and five of its regions: Andalusia,...

Value creation processes based on economic dynamics of contribution – also referred as crowdsourcing or web 2.0 - take more and more importance in contemporary capitalism (Moulier-Boutang 2010; Moulier-Boutang 2011a). This paper’s aim is twofold: 1) to contribute to a better understanding of the...

GDP and its components’ evolution show an oscillatory behavior. As an alternative approach to classical cyclic behavior producing models, the paper analyses this behavior both by Fourier transforms of the data series and by a discussion of the roots configuration of the associated second order...

This work boasts a double objective: not only does it attempt to offer a complete panorama of the matching process in Andalusian public employment agencies (Servicio Andaluz de Empleo, SAE) for both sides of the job market, based on duration analysis, but also to assess the degree to which the...

We investigate the changes in women's employment patterns across EU countries over the last 20 years both in terms of labour market participation and type of jobs using individual data from ECHP and EUSILC databases. By means of a logistic multilevel model, we then pin down the role played by...

Considering the wide range of CPI applications in the economy, the accuracy of estimating changes in an average price of a consumer basket of goods attracts the attention of many economists. How the index of consumer prices is calculated is not, as it might seem, a merely statistical problem....