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The supply of personal information : a study on the determinants of information provision in e-commerce scenarios
Potoglou, Dimitris; Palacios, Juan; Feijoo, Claudio; … - 2015
Disjoint research efforts have so far considered latent constructs (e.g. privacy concerns) either as an independent variable to explore consumers' actual or stated intentions or - to a less extent - as dependent variable explained through a number of antecedents (e.g. privacy awareness,...
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The impact of US macroeconomic news announcements on Chinese commodity futures
Cai, Haidong; Ahmed, Shamim; Jiang, Ying; Liu, Xiaoquan - In: Quantitative finance 20 (2020) 12, pp. 1927-1966
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Swedish regional development initiatives in a gender perspective : a regional policy programme evaluated against transversal objective
Widerstedt, Barbro - 2011
Gender equality has long been a focus in regional development in the European Union. In a Swedish context, the interest has been borne from the fact that rural and sparsely populated areas have a 'women shortage', and that this tendency is accelerating as young women move to cities, while young...
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Does globalization affect regional growth? : evidence for NUTS-2 regions in EU-27
Polasek, Wolfgang; Sellner, Richard - 2011 - Preprint
We analyze the influence of newly constructed globalization measures on regional growth for the EU-27 countries between … growth enhancing eff ect accrues from the structural funds expenditures in the EU. …
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Human capital, R&D and productivity convergence of European regions : a spatial analysis of RHOMOLO's semi endogenous growth approach.
Manca, Fabio; Piroli, Giuseppe - 2011 - Very preliminary
The aim of the paper is to test the Benhabib and Spiegel (2005) productivity (TFP) catch-up framework on European regions. Differences in the stock of human capital across regions are hypothesized to be the cause of differences in the speed by which follower regions converge and catch-up with...
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The distribution of the economic activity in European region : identification of cluster
López, Fernando A.; Angulo, Ana M.; Mur, Jésus; Artal … - 2011
Agglomeration economies play an important role in the explanation of the development and regional growth. For this reason, there exists a growing interest in the analysis of standards of co-localisation of the economic activities. This topic has been dealt with from different approaches using a...
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RHOMOLO : a dynamic general equilibrium modelling approach to the evaluation of the EU's regional policies
Gardiner, Ben; Kancs, D'Artis - 2011
the European Commission (JRC-IPTS, together with DG REGIO) for evaluating EU Cohesion Policy. The design of the model … - regionally, the aim is for complete NUTS2 (NUTS1 for Germany) coverage of the EU27, while the potential sector coverage is 23 …
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Trends in convergence in EU : differences between EU-10 and EU-15
Albu, Lucian-Liviu - 2013
convergence process among countries. Generally, empirical evidences from the EU history have confirmed this process. Intuitively …, some authors could consider that current crisis seems to affect convergence in EU. Contrary, how our analysis demonstrated … the period of last decade a significant convergence in EU, in matter of GDP per capita. However, differences in matter of …
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Effectiveness of structural funds : microlevel perspective (case of Slovakia)
Šipikal, Miroslav - 2011
Cohesion policy and regional policy as a main part of cohesion policy are the most important policies of European Union. This could also be view from the volume of financial resources allocated for these policies. One of the main current research issues is analyzing efficiency and effectiveness...
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The economic effect of the EU Eastern enlargement in 2004 on border regions in the old member states
Wassmann, Pia - 2015 - This version: July 20, 2015, preliminary version
The paper evaluates the impact of the EU Eastern enlargement 2004 on the economic performance of border regions located … EU Eastern enlargement not taken place. Results show that, overall, the EU Eastern enlargement 2004 had no statistically … from the EU enlargement, for the Italian region, the effect is negative. This heterogeneity seems to be driven by …
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