Search Results - "Applied Economics Letters"

Empirical evidence on the effectiveness of environmental taxes by Morley, Bruce

“…The aim of this study is to determine whether environmental taxes affect levels of pollution and energy consumption. Using a panel of European Union (EU)…”
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Searching for the picture: forecasting UK cinema admissions using Google Trends data by Hand, Chris, Judge, Guy

“…This article investigates whether Google Trends search information can improve forecasts of cinema admissions. Using monthly data for the United Kingdom for…”
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How do banking crises impact on income inequality? by Agnello, Luca, Sousa, Ricardo M.

“…We show that banking crises have an important effect on income distribution: inequality increases before banking crisis episodes and sharply declines…”
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Is the tourism-led growth hypothesis valid for Turkey? by Gunduz, Lokman, Hatemi-J, Abdulnasser

“…Like many developing countries, Turkey has also given priority to the development of tourism industry as a part of its economic growth strategy. This study…”
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More inequality, less social mobility by Andrews, Dan, Leigh, Andrew

“…We investigate the relationship between inequality and intergenerational mobility. Proxying fathers' earnings with using detailed occupational data, we find…”
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On the application of the dynamic conditional correlation model in estimating optimal time-varying hedge ratios by Ku, Yuan-Hung Hsu, Chen, Ho-Chyuan, Chen, Kuang-Hua

“…This article applies the dynamic conditional correlation model of Engle ( 2002 ) with error correction terms in order to investigate the optimal hedge ratios…”
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Does age matter for employability? A field experiment on ageism in the Swedish labour market by Ahmed, Ali M., Andersson, Lina, Hammarstedt, Mats

“…This article presents the findings of the first field experiment on age discrimination in the Swedish labour market. Pairs of matched applications, one from a…”
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Assessing health efficiency across countries with a two-step and bootstrap analysis by Afonso, António, St. Aubyn, Miguel

“…Regressing Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) output efficiency scores on nondiscretionary variables, with a two-stage DEA/Tobit and bootstrap procedures, we show…”
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European stock market comovement dynamics during some major financial market turmoils in the period 1997 to 2010 - a comparative DCC-GARCH and wavelet correlation analysis by Dajcman, Silvo, Festic, Mejra, Kavkler, Alenka

“…This article examines the comovement dynamics between the developed European stock markets of the United Kingdom, Germany, France and Austria. After applying a…”
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Economic growth and openness in Africa: What is the empirical relationship? by Chang, Ching-Cheng, Mendy, Michael

“…This study examines the effects of trade policies on economic growth in Africa. The econometric methodology follows the cross-country studies by Barro ( 1991 )…”
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Technical analysis and the London stock exchange: testing the MACD and RSI rules using the FT30 by Chong, Terence Tai-Leung, Ng, Wing-Kam

“…This article examines two oscillators - the Moving Average Convergence-Divergence (MACD) and the Relative Strength Index (RSI) - to see if these rules are…”
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Governance and foreign direct investment links: evidence from panel data estimations by Gani, Azmat

“…This article presents panel data estimates of the relationship between indicators of governance and foreign direct investment (FDI) using a sample of countries…”
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The effects of countercyclical capital buffers on bank lending by Drehmann, Mathias, Gambacorta, Leonardo

“…This article provides a simulation on how the countercyclical capital buffer designed in the Basel III package could impact on bank lending. It finds that the…”
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A monthly consumption indicator for Germany based on Internet search query data by Vosen, Simeon, Schmidt, Torsten

“…This study introduces a monthly coincident indicator for consumption in Germany based on Google Trends data on web search activity. In real-time nowcasting…”
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Revealing taste-based discrimination in hiring: a correspondence testing experiment with geographic variation by Carlsson, Magnus, Rooth, Dan-Olof

“…The standard Correspondence Testing Experiment (CTE) does not identify whether employer prejudice, as opposed to statistical discrimination, drives…”
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Investor sentiment in the Chinese stock market: an empirical analysis by Chi, Lixu, Zhuang, Xintian, Song, Dalei

“…This article focuses on investor sentiment and its relationships to stock returns and volatility in the Chinese stock market. By using mutual fund flows as a…”
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Physical attractiveness, employment and earnings by Pfeifer, Christian

“…Survey data are used to estimate the impact of physical attractiveness rated by the interviewer as well as by the respondent on employment probability and…”
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Internet and the 'Long Tail versus superstar effect' debate: evidence from the French book market by Peltier, Stéphanie, Moreau, François

“…From a comprehensive database of monthly sales of comic books and literature books in France over the period 2003 to 2007, we show that (i) bestsellers got…”
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Tracking the Libor rate by Abrantes-Metz, Rosa M., Villas-Boas, Sofia B., Judge, George

“…With an eye to providing a methodology for tracking the dynamic integrity of prices for important market indicators, in this article we use Benford second…”
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Portuguese football league efficiency and players' wages by Ribeiro, António S., Lima, Francisco

“…In this article, we use Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to measure the efficiency of Portuguese football clubs in the First League for seasons 2002/03 to…”
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