item: #1 of 150 id: ejge-10003 author: Pérez Zabaleta, Amelia; Borrat Sanjuan, Monica; Borrat Sanjuan, Monica title: The role of the Water Framework Directive in enhancing water use efficiency in the EU date: 2024 words: 14544 flesch: 51 summary: R&D Expenditure (Millons of €) 9,148.942 Global 16,283.39 31.253 88,781.82 N 280.00 Enter 16,406.56 46.368 73,159.16 n 28.00 Intra 2,157.873 -5,043.518 24,771.6 T-bar 10.00 X4: Population Density (people /km2) 171.922 Global 245.128 17.300 1,408.4 N 280.00 Enter 249.047 17.680 1,326.37 n 28.00 Intra 8.019 129.852 253.9521 T-bar 10.00 X5: Gross Domestic Product (Millons of € at 2015 current prices) 1,849.161 Global 5,286,747 5,386.1 3,44 exp 7 N 280.00 Enter 4,697,630 11,174.02 2,51 exp 7 n 28.00 Intra 2,567,844 -2,32exp-7 3,22 exp 7 T-bar 10.00 X6: Percentage of public water to total water abstracted (%) 21.729 Global 12.212 1.799045 48.95259 N 180.00 Enter 12.946 3.404095 48.1831 n 24.00 Intra 2.281 13.81413 34.12986 T-bar 7.50 X7: Total public water supplied to industrial activities and services (Millions of m3) 975.490 Global 1,327.252 24.74 5,533.4 N 157.00 Enter 1,649.514 25.815 5,382.8 n 25.00 Intra 100.698 336.7903 1,338.49 T-bar 6.28 X8: Total Public Water Supplied (%) 92.011 Global 11.520 49.2 100 N 145.00 Enter 10.350 57.47778 100 n 23.00 Intra 1.640 83.73415 98.23415 T-bar 6.30 X9: Percentage of GPD associated to circular economy (%) 0.942 Global 0.187 0.36 1.35 N 168.00 Enter 0.188 0.405 1.21875 n 24.00 Intra 0.077 0.655 1.246 T-bar 7.00 X10: In this context, the most significant variables are those that contribute the most to population density, public water consumed in industrial and service activities, total consumption, percentage of public water, percentage of environmental taxes, percentage of the population connected, and governance. keywords: analysis; consumption; countries; data; directive; economic; efficiency; european; framework; management; model; population; productivity; public; total; variables; water; water framework; water productivity; water use; wfd cache: ejge-10003.pdf plain text: ejge-10003.txt item: #2 of 150 id: ejge-10168 author: Lamine, Ahlem; Zribi, Sirine; Lamine, Ahlem title: Do geopolitical risks affect stock market returns and volatilities: an analysis based on the TVP-VAR model date: 2024 words: 9332 flesch: 57 summary: [0.0034, 0.0233] 0.007 36.23 4.3.1 Time-varying effects of the GPR index on G7 stock market returns Figure 1 shows the responses of stock index returns in the G7 countries to geopolitical risk shocks (GPR index) at different time horizons. Our results show that the impulse responses of stock index returns following a shock to the GPR index vary over time. keywords: brics; countries; gpr; gpr index; indices; markets; responses; returns; risk; stock; stock index; stock market; time; volatilities; volatility cache: ejge-10168.pdf plain text: ejge-10168.txt item: #3 of 150 id: ejge-10173 author: Shaqiri , Gentjan; Kacani, Jolta; Qorraj , Gazmend; Kacani, Jolta title: Unlocking regional value chains: Fintech’s role in the Western Balkans' integration into global markets date: 2024 words: 9485 flesch: 40 summary: Establish a regulatory sandbox or innovation center in every country of the region within the financial oversight bodies to allow fintech enterprises and systems to flourish in a controlled testing environment. Table 5: Benchmarking indicators for fintech applications fintech applications in enterprises operating in the Western Balkan region. keywords: applications; balkan; chains; countries; digital; enterprises; et al; financial; fintech; fintech solutions; global; gvcs; industry; journal; potential; region; retail; services; solutions; value cache: ejge-10173.pdf plain text: ejge-10173.txt item: #4 of 150 id: ejge-10225 author: Dziuba, Pavlo; Hrysenko, Maryna ; Shtogrin, Kyryl ; Dziuba, Pavlo title: Investor sentiment and Euro area ETFs: an empirical analysis of consumer behaviour date: 2024 words: 9612 flesch: 46 summary: Therefore, investor sentiment is one of the main research topics in behavioural finance, and there is a large strand of literature covering the investors’ sentiment impact on global markets (Akçay, 2022; Loang, 2022; Vuong & Suzuki, 2022). In simple terms, investor sentiment is the anticipation of securities prices by an investor. keywords: analysis; cci; confidence; consumer; etf; etf prices; etfs; euro; factors; impact; investor; investor sentiment; market; prices; relationship; returns; sentiment cache: ejge-10225.pdf plain text: ejge-10225.txt item: #5 of 150 id: ejge-10584 author: Carranza-Bautista, Daniel; Valcarce-Torrente, Manel; Amaya-Sánchez, Blanca Esneda; Rojas-Núñes , Claudia Fernanda; Carranza Bautista, Daniel title: Key competencies and role profiles for sports managers: a multi-dimensional analysis date: 2024 words: 5940 flesch: 47 summary: Keywords: job profile; competence; sports management; sports manager; management skills JEL classification: Z20; Z22 1. Key competencies and role profiles for sports managers Finally, to conclude the research in a general way, it was determined that 15 codes, due to their high Gr, could be the basis for the generation of competencies that a sports or physical activity manager must have and develop, preferably in the variable that has the greatest impact, among these: leadership, assertive communication, planning, empathy, problem-solving, human resource management, teamwork, resource management, organization, responsibility, respect, financial management, honesty, coordinating activities, and knowledge in sports management (Figure 5). keywords: analysis; code; competencies; dimension; job; levels; management; manager; profile; skills; sports; study; variable cache: ejge-10584.pdf plain text: ejge-10584.txt item: #6 of 150 id: ejge-10797 author: Peng, Yiwen; Peng, Yiwen title: Analysis of industrial transformation and upgrading in resource-exhausted cities: evidence from city-level and enterprise-level panel data. date: 2025 words: 9348 flesch: 48 summary: For example, provide high-end talents with favorable treatments such as housing subsidies, preferential policies for children's education, and start-up funds for scientific research to attract talents with advanced technologies and management experience to work in transforming enterprises and make up for the shortage of professional talents in the process of enterprise transformation. According to the actual talent needs of enterprise transformation, jointly formulate training programs to cultivate skilled and innovative talents that meet the requirements of enterprise technological upgrading and business expansion. keywords: china; cities; city; data; development; enterprises; industrial; level; policy; regression; resource; results; tfp; transformation; upgrading; yes cache: ejge-10797.pdf plain text: ejge-10797.txt item: #7 of 150 id: ejge-10853 author: Pires, Clara; Borralho, Carlos; Cantarinha, Ana; Borralho, Carlos title: Do rising interest rates matter for bank profitability? Evidence from Portuguese banks date: 2024 words: 6635 flesch: 55 summary: Published: Dec 3, 2024 Article Do rising interest rates matter for bank profitability? Evidence from Portuguese banks Clara Pires,1 Carlos Borralho,1, * Ana Cantarinha1 1 Polytechnic Institute of Beja & CEOS.PP, Portugal *Correspondence: cborralho@ipbeja.pt Keywords: banks; profitability; Euribor JEL classification: G01 ; G21 ; G28 1. Introduction Studies around bank profitability have received a lot of attention from researchers. keywords: banks; et al; euribor; impact; interest; profitability; roa; roe; size; variables cache: ejge-10853.pdf plain text: ejge-10853.txt item: #8 of 150 id: ejge-11102 author: Khalil, Sidrah; Mansour, Sarah; Biltagy, Marwa Shibl; Khalil, Sidrah title: Behaviorally-informed policies to reduce materialism among youth in Egypt: experimental evidence date: 2025 words: 15368 flesch: 48 summary: This type of intervention has not been used before in boosting self-esteem in materialism studies. Policy interventions Many governmental attempts have been made to combat materialism levels mainly through campaigns such as the “Buy Nothing Day” in Sweden, Finland, the UK, and North America, and the “International Downshifting Week” and the “Turn Off Your TV Week”. keywords: consumer; empathy; esteem; et al; gratitude; impact; interventions; journal; kasser; life; materialism; people; personality; policies; psychology; research; self; study; survey; values; youth cache: ejge-11102.pdf plain text: ejge-11102.txt item: #9 of 150 id: ejge-11181 author: Kamberi, Artina; Bexheti, Abdylmenaf; kamberi, artina title: Public debt and fiscal consolidation in the Western Balkans: a panel analysis of growth effects date: 2025 words: 6831 flesch: 36 summary: The descriptive analysis identifies fiscal consolidation periods based on improvements in the cyclically-adjusted primary budget balance and subsequent changes in the public debt-to-GDP ratio. Fiscal consolidation periods are defined by either: - A one-year improvement in the cyclically-adjusted primary budget balance of at least 1.5% of GDP, or - Three consecutive years where this balance does not deteriorate by more than 0.5% of GDP. keywords: consolidation; countries; debt; economic; gdp; government; growth; percentage; periods; revenue; tax cache: ejge-11181.pdf plain text: ejge-11181.txt item: #10 of 150 id: ejge-11247 author: Abu-Alrop, Jalal Hafeth Ahmad; ABU-ALROP, JALAL title: Comparative evaluation of Quality of Life indicators: towards developing a comprehensive standard model for measuring Quality of Life date: 2025 words: 10376 flesch: 44 summary: Analysis of quality of life indicators revealed the following biases and influences: • Gross Domestic Product (GDP) indicator: Biased towards economic quality, unaffected by governance and health quality. Further research should expand to include diverse countries and regions to validate the proposed model and understand quality of life factors in different contexts. keywords: analysis; development; economic; education quality; factors; governance quality; hdi; health quality; human; index; indicators; life; life indicators; model; needs; quality; study; variables cache: ejge-11247.pdf plain text: ejge-11247.txt item: #11 of 150 id: ejge-11272 author: Singh, Alka; Chaudhry, Archna; Alka, Alka Singh title: Measuring the impact of democracy on gender equality: does choice of index matter? date: 2025 words: 10722 flesch: 48 summary: As far as size of population is concerned, its impact on gender equality is almost positive on gender equality indices across all regions except Europe and North America. Among gender equality variables, GEI exhibits the highest variation (51.7 percent) compared to GGI (8.8 percent) and GDI (7.6 percent). keywords: countries; democracy; eiud; gdi; gei; gender equality; ggi; impact; income; model; regression; variables; women cache: ejge-11272.pdf plain text: ejge-11272.txt item: #12 of 150 id: ejge-11299 author: Cid, Bianca; García-Álvarez, María Teresa; Cid, Bianca title: Barriers and policy solutions for electric vehicle adoption in Spain: a multidimensional analysis date: 2025 words: 12928 flesch: 41 summary: In 2022, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Barriers and policy solutions for electric vehicle adoption in Spain road transport alone accounted for an estimated 28.1% of total GHG emissions. 1,000,000.00 Germany France Italy Poland Spain Netherlands Czech Republic Belgium Romania Greece Austria Hungary Portugal Ireland Bulgaria Finland Sweden Denmark Slovakia Croatia Lithuania Slovenia Estonia Latvia Luxembourg Cyprus Malta GHG emissions Co un tr y Barriers and policy solutions for electric vehicle adoption in Spain neutrality by 2050 (Ministerio para la Transición Ecológica y el Reto Demográfico, 2020). keywords: adoption; article; barriers; battery; cars; charging; countries; electric; emissions; energy; european; evs; figure; incentives; infrastructure; ministerio; mobility; para; points; policy; sector; spain; transition; transport; vehicle cache: ejge-11299.pdf plain text: ejge-11299.txt item: #13 of 150 id: ejge-11356 author: Gara, Atdhetar; Bilalli, Argjira; Beka, Artenisa; Gara, Atdhetar title: The influence of economic factors on sustainable energy consumption: a comparative approach between the OECD and Western Balkan countries date: 2025 words: 7341 flesch: 41 summary: Keywords: sustainable energy consumption; economic growth; inflation; foreign direct investment JEL classification: B22 ; Q4 ; Q43 1. Future research papers could be extended by including some other economic factors, such as the efficiency of the institution's performance, taking into account the fact that the mechanism of the institutions is considered fundamentally in terms of the policies in energy and their application, as well as additional groups of counties in order to measure the influence of such economic factors on sustainable energy consumption as a permanent source of life. keywords: balkans; countries; energy; energy consumption; energy use; factors; fdi; growth; impact; oecd; oecd countries; trade; use cache: ejge-11356.pdf plain text: ejge-11356.txt item: #14 of 150 id: ejge-11363 author: Gül, Mert; Tufaner, Mustafa Batuhan; Gül, Mert title: Do natural resources hinder or help? Exploring economic development in EU countries through human and institutional lenses date: 2025 words: 8947 flesch: 46 summary: A key strand of development economics focuses on natural resource dependence (NRD), defined as the degree to which an economy relies on revenues or exports related to natural resources. This study investigates the impact of natural resource dependence and abundance on economic development in 21 EU countries from 1996 to 2019, focusing on critical gaps in the literature on resource- driven development. keywords: capital; countries; dependence; development; economic; growth; hdi; human; model; nra; nrd; panel; resource; results; table; test; variables cache: ejge-11363.pdf plain text: ejge-11363.txt item: #15 of 150 id: ejge-11713 author: Phan Huy, Tam; Tran Bich, Quan; Nguyen Thi Mai, Vang; Do Tuong, Vy; Nguyen Thi Khanh, Linh; Phan Huy, Tâm title: Management impression and bank’s performance with NLP for chairperson’s statement date: 2025 words: 14875 flesch: 33 summary: 4.2 Regression analysis This study delves into the nuanced relationship between the net interest margin (NIM) and a blend of bank management impressions and chairperson characteristics. This study seeks to answer the central research question: How do impression management strategies embedded in chairperson’s statements influence bank performance in the Vietnamese banking sector? keywords: bank; bank performance; banking; chairperson; disclosures; et al; firms; impression management; influence; interest; journal; management; market; narrative; nim; nlp; perceptions; performance; research; stakeholders; statements; strategies; study cache: ejge-11713.pdf plain text: ejge-11713.txt item: #16 of 150 id: ejge-11723 author: Dao, Thi Bich Thuy; Dao, Thi Bich Thuy title: How government spending matters to FDI inflows in developing countries? date: 2025 words: 6566 flesch: 53 summary: 𝐹𝐹1 = �1, Lower middle income countries 0, Others 𝐹𝐹2 = �1, Upper middle income countries 0, Others 𝐹𝐹3 = �1, High income countries 0, Others How government spending matters to FDI inflows in developing countries? High income countries: Bahrain, Barbados, Brunei Darussalam, Chile, Israel, Korea (Republic), Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, United Arab Emirates, Uruguay. keywords: countries; country; development; effect; fdi; fdi inflows; government; government spending; income; income country; inflows; investment; level; middle; spending cache: ejge-11723.pdf plain text: ejge-11723.txt item: #17 of 150 id: ejge-12026 author: Lamprinidis, Lampros; LAMPRINIDIS, LAMPROS title: The implementation of socially responsible public procurement in Greece: barriers and prospects for Social Economy Entities date: 2025 words: 4949 flesch: 32 summary: Obstacles faced by social economy entities in public procurement tenders 5. By doing so, the research aims to contribute to both the academic literature on SRPP and the policy discourse on how public procurement can be leveraged to support the development of the Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE). keywords: economy; figure; greece; implementation; lamprinidis; law; policy; procurement; sees; srpp; tenders cache: ejge-12026.pdf plain text: ejge-12026.txt item: #18 of 150 id: ejge-12671 author: Sánchez-Gabarre, Mary Elena; Sánchez, Mary Elena title: Public policies and sustainable mobility in Spain: empirical analysis of household expenditure on bicycles date: 2025 words: 6556 flesch: 36 summary: This paper contributes to filling this gap by empirically analysing the determinants of household bicycle expenditure in Spain, with particular attention to its income elasticity. Household bicycle expenditure is not merely a function of preferences or income, but is shaped by a complex interplay of structural, territorial, and policy factors. keywords: bicycles; consumption; cycling; elasticity; expenditure; health; household; income; mobility; policies; policy; spain; spending; transport cache: ejge-12671.pdf plain text: ejge-12671.txt item: #19 of 150 id: ejge-4273 author: Varela, Diego; Benedetto, Giacomo; Sanchez-Santos, Jose Manuel title: Editorial statement: Why do we need a European Journal of Government and Economics? date: 2012 words: 1809 flesch: 46 summary: The shortage of academic journals The creation of this new journal is based on the belief that there is a general shortage of journals, and that this shortage is hindering the dissemination of existing research and, what is more serious perhaps, discouraging research in the first place. We argue that there is a general shortage of academic journals. keywords: access; government; impact; journal cache: ejge-4273.pdf plain text: ejge-4273.txt item: #20 of 150 id: ejge-4274 author: Studinger, Philipp; Bauer, Michael W. title: Regional demands for policy participation in the EU multilevel system date: 2012 words: 10231 flesch: 40 summary: By comparing the preference patterns for regional policy competences to what we deem would be the objective functional policy allocation, we are able to assess whether or not there is a correlation. The table shows the mean value of the desired number of policies for regional policy competences. keywords: allocation; competences; crats; european; government; individual; journal; level; model; national; participation; policies; policy; preferences; regional; regions; table; variable cache: ejge-4274.pdf plain text: ejge-4274.txt item: #21 of 150 id: ejge-4275 author: Buts, Caroline; Jegers, Marc; Jottier, Dimi title: The effect of subsidising firms on voting behaviour: Evidence from Flemish elections date: 2012 words: 7804 flesch: 53 summary: Instead of higher subsidies leading to better election outcome, one could argue that more subsidies are awarded to regions where incumbent support was rather low in the past. Throughout the four estimations, we find that there is a significant positive relationship between subsidies and the vote share in 2009, meaning that cantons that receive high subsidies the year previous to the elections reward incumbent 9 keywords: aid; economic; elections; european; firms; government; incumbent; journal; parties; politicians; spending; subsidies; vote cache: ejge-4275.pdf plain text: ejge-4275.txt item: #22 of 150 id: ejge-4276 author: Hughes Hallett, Andrew; Kuhn, Moritz; Warmedinger, Thomas title: The gains from early intervention in Europe: Fiscal surveillance and fiscal planning using cash data date: 2012 words: 10501 flesch: 63 summary: German government deficit plan, starting in 2002, as submitted in December 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 Deficit -2.0% -1.0% 0.0% 0.0% nominal GDP growth 2.77% 4.04% 4.04% 4.04% Debt 60.38% 59.04% 56.75% 54.55% Deficit and growth rates are taken from the plan submitted by the government. German government deficit plan after a one-time deviation in 2002 2002 2003 2004 2005 keywords: additive; constant; corrections; debt; deficit; european; gdp; government; interventions; plan; slope; sp plan; time cache: ejge-4276.pdf plain text: ejge-4276.txt item: #23 of 150 id: ejge-4277 author: Ben Arfa, Nabil title: Sources of economic fuctuations in France: A structural VAR model date: 2012 words: 6759 flesch: 54 summary: JEL Classification E32; F41; C22 Keywords economic fluctuations; external shocks; internal shocks; oil price shock; .0010 .0012 5 10 15 20 25 30 Response ot the growth rate to oil price shock Indeed, as it was predicted by economic theory, a positive supply shock involves an improvement of the activity level, this improvement remains rather bearable in long-term. keywords: demand; demand shock; economic; exchange; journal; model; oil; price; price shock; rate; response; shock; var cache: ejge-4277.pdf plain text: ejge-4277.txt item: #24 of 150 id: ejge-4278 author: Cancelo, Jose Ramon title: Cyclical synchronization in the EMU along the financial crisis: An interpretation of the conflicting signals date: 2012 words: 6824 flesch: 50 summary: JEL classification E32; F42; F44 Keywords international business cycles; euro area; cyclical convergence; asymmetric responses * Address for correspondence: José Ramón Cancelo, University of A Coruña, Faculty of Economics and Business, Campus de Elviña, 15071 A Coruña, Spain. After this introduction, Section 2 reviews the literature on currency areas, to make clear why cyclical synchronization is so important for a monetary union, and to highlight the factors that strengthen the convergence of the national cycles of its members. keywords: correlations; countries; crisis; cycle; emu; euro area; european; figure; member; synchronization; trade cache: ejge-4278.pdf plain text: ejge-4278.txt item: #25 of 150 id: ejge-4279 author: Varela, Diego; Benedetto, Giacomo; Sanchez-Santos, Jose Manuel title: Editorial statement: The first year of the European Journal of Government and Economics date: 2012 words: 1063 flesch: 49 summary: The DOAJ itself is not only open access, but nor does it charge indexed journals or publishers. A particularity of this index, as its name indicates, is that it only lists journals that use a funding model that does not charge readers or their institutions for access. keywords: economics; government; journal cache: ejge-4279.pdf plain text: ejge-4279.txt item: #26 of 150 id: ejge-4280 author: Helland, Leif; Hovi, Jon; Monkerud, Lars title: Can exit prizes induce lame ducks to shirk less? Experimental evidence date: 2012 words: 9867 flesch: 52 summary: These results make it evident that position C subjects behave differently in the prize and no-prize treatments. We find that a significantly higher number of outgoing subjects contribute in the treatment with exit prizes than in the baseline treatment without exit prizes. keywords: contribute; economics; equilibrium; game; group; path; period; player; position; prize; prize treatment; subjects; table; treatment; trigger cache: ejge-4280.pdf plain text: ejge-4280.txt item: #27 of 150 id: ejge-4281 author: Fiorino, Nadia; Galli, Emma; Petrarca, Ilaria title: Corruption and Growth: Evidence from the Italian regions date: 2012 words: 7811 flesch: 48 summary: We re-address this issue for a more recent period of the Italian history (1980-2004) characterised by high variability in both growth rates and corruption crimes. GDP growth is measured as the percentage change from the past years' GDP growth; crimes are measured as per capita prosecutions for corruption crimes. keywords: corruption; crimes; data; economic; equation; european; expenditure; gdp; gdp growth; government; growth; italian; journal; model; regions; variables cache: ejge-4281.pdf plain text: ejge-4281.txt item: #28 of 150 id: ejge-4282 author: Cseres-Gergely, Zsombor title: Can the modernisation of a public employment service be an effective labour market intervention? The Hungarian experience, 2004-2008 date: 2012 words: 9414 flesch: 46 summary: Using data at the level of local offices, I calculate programme effects using a difference-in-difference estimator. For we need a comparison group to measure programme effects, only outcomes for participating offices can be measured. keywords: data; education; effect; employment; european; exit; labour; market; matching; offices; pes; programme; programme effect; public cache: ejge-4282.pdf plain text: ejge-4282.txt item: #29 of 150 id: ejge-4283 author: Garcia-del-Barrio, Pedro title: External economies of scale, government purchasing commitment and welfare improvements in the vaccines industry date: 2012 words: 8261 flesch: 50 summary: Precisely, Gordon and Samant (2008: 41) point out that the size of the market is a European Journal of Government and Economics 1(2) 169 crucial factor in developing new vaccines: ‘A typical vaccine company will have several vaccine candidates in basic research... Although 60 or so small companies claim engagement in vaccine research and development, only about a dozen or so consider it a major activity.’ keywords: consumers; cost; economies; government; industry; market; scale; subsidy; vaccines; welfare cache: ejge-4283.pdf plain text: ejge-4283.txt item: #30 of 150 id: ejge-4284 author: Lodge, David; Rodriguez-Vives, Marta title: How long can austerity persist? The factors that sustain fiscal consolidations date: 2013 words: 10094 flesch: 41 summary: However, they also find that a) positive large output gaps increases the likelihood of starting fiscal consolidations, although they reduce the chances of success, and b) that fiscal consolidation is likely to start when the domestic economy is doing well compared to other economies. JEL Classification C23; E20; E62; H62 Keywords Government debt; government deficit; fiscal consolidation; panel data; survival function Acknowledgements keywords: adjustment; analysis; conditions; consolidation; countries; debt; duration; factors; gdp; government; growth; hazard; interest; rate; role; years cache: ejge-4284.pdf plain text: ejge-4284.txt item: #31 of 150 id: ejge-4285 author: Hartlapp, Miriam; Rauh, Christian title: The Commission’s internal conditions for social re-regulation: Market efficiency and wider social goals in setting the rules for financial services in Europe date: 2013 words: 8872 flesch: 37 summary: Consequently, it is relevant to ask for the conditions under which EU market regulation pursues social goals that go beyond mere market efficiency. We draw up two ideal-type perspectives of market regulation – being either efficiency or equality enhancing – that differ systematically in terms of rationale, degree of intervention, patterns of stakeholder access and conflict within the regulator. keywords: access; commission; consumer; efficiency; enhancing; equality; european; financial; journal; market; policy; proposal; regulation; regulatory; services; state cache: ejge-4285.pdf plain text: ejge-4285.txt item: #32 of 150 id: ejge-4286 author: Pajala, Antti title: Government vs opposition voting in the Finnish parliament Eduskunta since World War II date: 2013 words: 9435 flesch: 59 summary: With respect to plenary voting opposition parties can act in two ways: vote more frequently with the government or against it. However, as plenary votes are mostly a product of opposition activity and opposition parties support their own initiatives, intuitively it should be the case that opposition parties move apart from the government during the last year of an electoral period. keywords: coalition; eduskunta; government; government groups; groups; opposition; opposition groups; opposition voting; pajala; parties; party; plenary; ppgs; votes; voting cache: ejge-4286.pdf plain text: ejge-4286.txt item: #33 of 150 id: ejge-4287 author: Soare, Florin Stanica title: Ceausescu’s population policy: a moral or an economic choice between compulsory and voluntary incentivised motherhood? date: 2013 words: 10716 flesch: 45 summary: The ban on abortion, as an attempt to control fertility and influence the natural movement of the population, was a widely popular measure in (but not restricted to) totalitarian systems, being one of the lynchpins of population policy. The regime’s propaganda constantly linked population policy to the economic development of Romania, population policy being considered to be ‘an integral part of the economic and social policy of the state’ (Pavelescu, 1977: 8). keywords: a.n.i.c; abortions; birth; c.c; ceausescu; children; committee; dosar; fond; health; measures; number; p.c.r; policy; population; population policy; pronatalist; romania; secţia; state cache: ejge-4287.pdf plain text: ejge-4287.txt item: #34 of 150 id: ejge-4288 author: Muñoz-Goy, Celia title: Social capital in Spain: Are there gender inequalities? date: 2013 words: 7286 flesch: 47 summary: JEL classification Z13; J16 Keywords Social capital; social networks; civic participation; gender inequalities Muñoz-Goy ● Social capital in Spain 80 Introduction The main results show gender differences in the access, mobilisation and type of social networks, as well as in the extent and type of social participation. keywords: capital; differences; education; gender; groups; n.s; network; organisations; spain; status; women cache: ejge-4288.pdf plain text: ejge-4288.txt item: #35 of 150 id: ejge-4289 author: Varela, Diego; Benedetto, Giacomo; Sanchez-Santos, Jose Manuel title: Editorial statement: The first two years of EJGE date: 2013 words: 2005 flesch: 46 summary: JEL classification A12; A30; P27 Keywords Academic publishing; academic journal; internationalisation; indexing; academic impact European Journal of Government and Economics 2(2) 96 Introduction One year has passed since our last editorial, in which we discussed our efforts to include the journal in some indices in order to improve its visibility and impact. In our first editorial we also discussed the shortage of academic journals and the role of EJGE in filling this gap (Varela et al., 2012b). keywords: economics; european; government; journal; year cache: ejge-4289.pdf plain text: ejge-4289.txt item: #36 of 150 id: ejge-4290 author: Kiss, Aron title: The optimal top marginal tax rate: Application to Hungary date: 2013 words: 9965 flesch: 52 summary: JEL classification H21; H24 Keywords Optimal income taxation; top income tax rate; Hungary; emerging markets Acknowledgements This research had been conducted before the author started to work at the European Commission. ‘Using elasticities to derive optimal income tax rates’, Review of Economic Studies 68(1): 205-229. keywords: effect; income; income tax; parameter; pension; percent; rates; revenue; tax rate; value cache: ejge-4290.pdf plain text: ejge-4290.txt item: #37 of 150 id: ejge-4291 author: Greer, Alan title: The Common Agricultural Policy and the EU budget: stasis or change? date: 2013 words: 9929 flesch: 47 summary: JEL classification Q18; H230 Keywords Agricultural Policy, CAP reform, Multi-annual Financial Framework, co-decision European Journal of Government and Economics 2(2) 120 Introduction Agriculture has always provided a fertile field for students of politics and public policy, especially those of us fascinated by how the political power of farmers in Europe has persisted despite the long gradual decline in their number and the relative economic importance of the sector. Greer ● The Common Agricultural Policy and the EU budget 121 Budgetary considerations have played a key role in agricultural policy change, sometimes bringing the issue onto the policy agenda and opening a policy window for CAP reform, for example the crisis of over-production in the 1980s. keywords: agriculture; budget; cap; cap reform; cent; change; commission; eu budget; european; mff; payments; pillar; policy; reform; spending cache: ejge-4291.pdf plain text: ejge-4291.txt item: #38 of 150 id: ejge-4292 author: Ikpe, Marius; Nteegah, Alwell title: Value Added Tax and price stability in Nigeria: A partial equilibrium analysis date: 2013 words: 5734 flesch: 45 summary: Bogetic and Hasan (1993) found that Indonesia introduced VAT in 1983, and by 1988, the ratio of VAT revenue to GDP had risen to 4.5 percent. For instance, VAT revenue in the year of its inception (1994) was N8.194 billion, which was 36.5 percent greater than the projected N6 billion for that year (Ajakaiye, 1999). keywords: analysis; impact; inflation; level; model; nigeria; price; rate; revenue; tax; value; vat cache: ejge-4292.pdf plain text: ejge-4292.txt item: #39 of 150 id: ejge-4293 author: Kouprianova, Nina title: Modernity and natalism in Russia: Historic perspectives date: 2013 words: 6908 flesch: 38 summary: Post-Soviet Russia With that in mind, let us have a look at the last 20 or so years of Russia’s demographic policies and cultural perspectives, informed by an understanding that post-Soviet Russia has partially adopted the liberal-capitalist system. Economic stability is not an unimportant factor, yet it is authentic traditional culture that is of equal, if not greater, importance, even if expressed through state policies. keywords: children; dugin; european; government; modernity; natalism; new; period; population; russia; soviet; state; traditionalism; ussr; western cache: ejge-4293.pdf plain text: ejge-4293.txt item: #40 of 150 id: ejge-4294 author: Bolin, Niklas title: New party parliamentary entry in Western Europe, 1960-2010 date: 2014 words: 8167 flesch: 56 summary: Although the number of studies of new political parties is gradually increasing, we still lack a comprehensive understanding of when new parties manage to enter national parliaments. Although the number of studies of new political parties is gradually increasing, we still lack a comprehensive understanding of when new parties manage to enter the most important political assembly, namely national parliaments. keywords: entry; europe; factors; model; new; number; parties; party; success; system; threshold; turnout; western cache: ejge-4294.pdf plain text: ejge-4294.txt item: #41 of 150 id: ejge-4295 author: Hoff-Elimari, Eivind; Bardi, Anat; Matti, Simon; Östman, Kristina title: Collective action problems: Disentangling possible feedback loops between government policies and the public’s value-change date: 2014 words: 9508 flesch: 53 summary: Judging from Figure 5, both causal directions between public opinion and government value priorities are possible: ESS4 was recorded 11 September 2009-12 March 2010, the elections took place on 25 February 2011, and ESS5 was recorded 20 September 2011-31 January 2012. Public values and conflicting views about justice', Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 53(1): 201–211. keywords: action; change; countries; elections; ess; european; feedback; government; journal; opinion; policies; policy; priorities; problems; public; schwartz; score; self; transcendence; value cache: ejge-4295.pdf plain text: ejge-4295.txt item: #42 of 150 id: ejge-4296 author: Kanol, Direnç title: Interest group influence in micro-states: the role of networking skills date: 2014 words: 7073 flesch: 55 summary: Keywords Cyprus; interest groups; interest group influence; lobbying; micro-states; networking skills. European Journal of Government and Economics 3(1) 48 Introduction What determines interest group influence? keywords: cyprus; group; influence; information; interest; makers; micro; organisations; policy; politics; public; skills; states cache: ejge-4296.pdf plain text: ejge-4296.txt item: #43 of 150 id: ejge-4297 author: Bilgin, Cevat title: Determinants of tax morale in Spain and Turkey: an empirical analysis date: 2014 words: 7167 flesch: 51 summary: Alm and Torgler (2005) compared tax morale levels of USA with Spain by using 1990 and 1995 WVS data that concluded that tax morale level in USA is higher. When it comes to tax morale level, level 4 gives the highest rate which is that 80 percent of respondents find that cheating on taxes is never justifiable. keywords: confidence; education; level; morale; percent; spain; tax; tax morale; variables cache: ejge-4297.pdf plain text: ejge-4297.txt item: #44 of 150 id: ejge-4298 author: Martinez-Lopez, Diego; Sjongren, Tomas title: Vertical externalities with lump-sum taxes: how much difference does unemployment make? date: 2014 words: 5566 flesch: 53 summary: But here the effect of federal public input on state policy variable is not so clear. Consequently, the behaviour of federal government becomes a crucial issue to determine the effect of unemployment on the achievement of the production efficiency condition in the provision of public inputs. keywords: externalities; government; inputs; provision; public; tax; taxes; unemployment cache: ejge-4298.pdf plain text: ejge-4298.txt item: #45 of 150 id: ejge-4299 author: Varela, Diego; Benedetto, Giacomo; Sanchez-Santos, Jose Manuel title: Editorial statement: Lessons from Goodhart’s law for the management of the journal date: 2014 words: 1529 flesch: 46 summary: Keywords Academic publishing; academic journal; Goodhart’s law; indicators; research assessment. We have also been accepted by one new index in this period, namely Latindex, which is probably the most prominent index for journals based in Spain, Portugal and Latin America. keywords: goodhart; indicators; journal; law cache: ejge-4299.pdf plain text: ejge-4299.txt item: #46 of 150 id: ejge-4300 author: Schomaker, Rahel title: Institutional quality and private sector participation: theory and empirical findings date: 2014 words: 7907 flesch: 33 summary: Schomaker ● Institutional quality and private sector participation 117 Parker, David and Keith Hartley (2005) ‘Transaction costs, relational contracting and public private partnerships: a case study of UK defence’ in Darrin Grimsey and Mervyn K. Lewis (eds) The Economics of Public Private Partnerships, Cheltenham and Northampton: European Journal of Government and Economics 3(2) 116 Dudkin, G. and Välilä, T. (2005) ‘Transaction Costs in Public Private Partnerships: A First Look at the Evidence’, European Investment Bank Economic and Financial Report 2005/03. keywords: costs; country; development; economic; governance; government; growth; infrastructure; institutions; investment; level; participation; partnerships; ppp; public; quality; sector; services; transaction cache: ejge-4300.pdf plain text: ejge-4300.txt item: #47 of 150 id: ejge-4301 author: Söderberg, Charlotta title: What drives sub-national bioenergy development? Exploring cross-level implications of environmental policy integration in EU and Swedish bioenergy policy date: 2014 words: 10897 flesch: 43 summary: Furthermore, interviews with key Biofuel Region actors provide insight into what role EU and Swedish bioenergy policy, respectively, play for sub-national bioenergy development. Thus, Biofuel Region actors put renewable European Journal of Government and Economics 3(2) 130 policy goals and political funding of investments in renewable energy forward as important policy instruments for sub-national bioenergy development. keywords: actors; bfr; bioenergy; bioenergy development; bioenergy policy; biofuel; biofuel region; development; epi; learning; level; national; policy; region; sub; swedish cache: ejge-4301.pdf plain text: ejge-4301.txt item: #48 of 150 id: ejge-4302 author: Lagadec, Gael title: Are political support-driven policies always bad? The case of large interest groups date: 2014 words: 4925 flesch: 49 summary: The case of large interest groups Gael Lagadec, University of New Caledonia, New Caledonia Abstract The action of active interest groups (lobbies) has been traditionally considered to be a source of harmful waste for the economy which reduces social well-being. So, there is a strong presumption that this empirical evidence confirms the relevance of our analysis that large interest groups passively shape political support-driven policies. keywords: groups; interest; lobbies; lobbying; policies; policy; protection; support; welfare cache: ejge-4302.pdf plain text: ejge-4302.txt item: #49 of 150 id: ejge-4303 author: Castellanos García, Pablo; Pérez Díaz del Río, Indalecio; Sanchez-Santos, Jose Manuel title: The role of confidence in the evolution of the Spanish economy: empirical evidence from an ARDL model date: 2014 words: 7006 flesch: 52 summary: Results of unit root tests Variable s ADF test PP test KPSS test Tests with breaks Additive Outlier Innovative Outlier ESI_Sp Not stationary Not stationary Stationary Stationary Stationary Outliers: 1Q95, 2Q09 Outliers: 2Q93, 2Q07 dESI_Sp Stationary Stationary Stationary According to the results reported in Table 3, in the model in which the ESI of Spain is included as dependent variable, the null hypothesis of the absence of a cointegration relationship between the variables could not be rejected. keywords: confidence; debt; economic; economy; esi_sp; model; rate; sentiment; term; test; unemployment; variables; vix cache: ejge-4303.pdf plain text: ejge-4303.txt item: #50 of 150 id: ejge-4304 author: Alfano, Maria Rosaria; Baraldi, Anna Laura title: The role of political competition in the link between electoral systems and corruption: an extension date: 2015 words: 10290 flesch: 49 summary: 5 Alfano and Baraldi ● Political competition, electoral systems and corruption Introduction The choice of an electoral system is one of the most important institutional decisions for any democracy. That is, changes in the Italian electoral 9 Alfano and Baraldi ● Political competition, electoral systems and corruption system during the period under exam concerned all the regions at the same time. keywords: abc; competition; corruption; corruption index; countries; country; degree; economic; effect; electoral; gdi; government; index; journal; proportionality; system; test; variable cache: ejge-4304.pdf plain text: ejge-4304.txt item: #51 of 150 id: ejge-4305 author: Pere, Engjell title: Impact of good governance in the economic development of Western Balkan countries date: 2015 words: 7598 flesch: 55 summary: Following the introduction, the paper will continue with three other sections: section 2 will present the variation of good governance indicators in Western Balkan countries; section 3 shows the positive economic growth in the region; and section 4 analyzes the correlation between economic growth and good governance. In fact, this conclusion is clearly shown in the graphs above regarding good governance indicators (Graphs 1 to 6) and economic growth (Graphs 7 to 8). keywords: balkan; bank; countries; development; gdp; governance; governance indicators; growth; indicators; law; world cache: ejge-4305.pdf plain text: ejge-4305.txt item: #52 of 150 id: ejge-4306 author: Senderski, Marcin title: Inhibited privatization: a hurdle race over vested interests date: 2015 words: 10903 flesch: 44 summary: Abstract This paper recognizes vested interests as one of the primary premises that reduce the effectiveness of privatization policy, stall its momentum and produce structural problems in the long-run. The level of complexity varies and while some scholars have found evidence that fiscal constraints, political and ideological considerations are decisive determinants of privatization policy (Bel and Fageda, 2009:116), others rather point out pragmatic concerns such as service quality (Warner and Hebdon, 2001). keywords: countries; development; economics; employees; enterprises; firms; governance; government; interests; management; market; new; ownership; paper; poland; policy; politicians; privatization; public; research; soes; sponsorship; sports; state; transition; value; working cache: ejge-4306.pdf plain text: ejge-4306.txt item: #53 of 150 id: ejge-4307 author: Prado-Dominguez, Javier; Fernández-Herráiz, Carlos title: A Sharpe-ratio-based measure for currencies date: 2015 words: 3863 flesch: 57 summary: This is a key question to consider because, at the end of the day, the interest rate spread is another way of looking at currency risks. This work presents an adaptation of the ex-ante Sharpe Ratio for currencies where we consider a random walk approach for the currency behavior and implied volatility as a proxy for market expectations of future realized volatility. keywords: currency; peso; rate; ratio; return; risk; sharpe; volatility cache: ejge-4307.pdf plain text: ejge-4307.txt item: #54 of 150 id: ejge-4308 author: Vanlaer, Willem; Marneffe, Wim; Vereeck, Lode; Vanovertveldt, Johan title: Does debt predict growth? An empirical analysis of the relationship between total debt and economic output date: 2015 words: 12546 flesch: 66 summary: Simultaneously however, a large construction bubble was building up, as private debt levels soared from around 125% of GDP at the start of the decade to more than 220% when the crisis struck in 2007-2008. Comparing the impact of public debt and private debt levels is beyond the scope of this paper. keywords: al g; debt; e al; e r; g d; g ro; gdp; growth; ta g; th r; total cache: ejge-4308.pdf plain text: ejge-4308.txt item: #55 of 150 id: ejge-4309 author: Soldatos, Gerasimos T.; Varelas, Erotokritos title: A first formal approach to animal spirits beyond uncertainty date: 2015 words: 5526 flesch: 44 summary: A first formal approach to animal spirits beyond uncertainty Gerasimos T. Soldatos, American University of Athens, Greece Erotokritos Varelas, University of Macedonia, Greece Abstract Standard Macroeconomics treats animal spirits as a source of uncertainty disturbing otherwise rational expectations. The introduction of a policy-maker, holding its own view of private welfare in a society of emotional individuals, generates by itself, i.e. in the absence of animal spirits, uniform business fluctuations. keywords: animal; animal spirits; emotion; income; individual; maker; policy; spirits; welfare cache: ejge-4309.pdf plain text: ejge-4309.txt item: #56 of 150 id: ejge-4310 author: Antelo, Manel; Santias, Francisco Reyes; Calvo, Adela Martinez title: Bed capacity and surgical waiting lists: a simulation analysis date: 2015 words: 7154 flesch: 51 summary: In this subsection we examine what happens in the simulation analysis if the number of hospital beds increases. It is well known that, if the number of hospital beds increases, inpatient activity tends to adapt itself to the hospital’s new productive capacity. keywords: activity; beds; capacity; cent; days; hospital; increase; inpatient; inpatient activity; length; lists; number; simulation; waiting cache: ejge-4310.pdf plain text: ejge-4310.txt item: #57 of 150 id: ejge-4311 author: Di Foggia, Giacomo; Arrigo, Ugo title: The scope of public organisations with productive functions: insights from the inefficiency of Italian local public transport date: 2015 words: 9672 flesch: 44 summary: We also agree with findings of the Competition authority AGCOM (2014) who advises that the most important aspects for the market development are the proper definition of the areas of public service, both in terms of territory as regards the nature of the services offered and the definition of minimum services and the related question of the correct quantification of the compensation of the public service obligations. Amaral, Miguel, Stéphane Saussier and Anne Yvrande-Billon (2009) ‘Auction procedures and competition in public services: The case of urban public transport in France and London’, Utilities Policy 17(2):166-175. keywords: administration; companies; competition; economics; efficiency; european; firms; government; index; italy; journal; lpt; management; market; organisations; performance; public; results; sector; services; soes; state; transport cache: ejge-4311.pdf plain text: ejge-4311.txt item: #58 of 150 id: ejge-4312 author: Lempert, David title: A quick indicator of effectiveness of “capacity building” initiatives of NGOs and international organizations date: 2015 words: 23317 flesch: 35 summary: In short, foxes have entered the henhouse in design and implementation of capacity building projects in international development as well as many other governmental systems, and there is a need to devise better oversight systems. The (perhaps intended) result is that development projects often serve the interests of those government bureaucrats channelling the funds and those who receive them rather than the public that is supposed to benefit from measurable results (Lempert, 2008). keywords: accountability; bank; capacity building; capacity development; development; donors; european; foreign; funds; governance; government; indicator; international; interventions; lempert; loss; officials; organizations; points; problem; project; public; questions; scoring; standards; systems; uncdf; undp; use; world cache: ejge-4312.pdf plain text: ejge-4312.txt item: #59 of 150 id: ejge-4313 author: Ciriani, Stephane; Lebourges, Marc title: The role of market power in economic growth: an analysis of the differences between EU and US competition policy theory, practice and outcomes date: 2016 words: 12602 flesch: 39 summary: According to Marty and Pillot (2009), a core principle of US competition policy is the preservation of firms’ incentives to acquire market dominance. The Commission’s economic doctrine posits that the ever-increasing level of competition intensity invariably leads to higher investment in innovation, and that competition policy is a major instrument to foster economic growth. keywords: antitrust; chicago; competition; competition authorities; competition law; competition policy; doctrine; effects; efficiency; european commission; firms; growth; innovation; investment; journal; level; market power; markets; productivity cache: ejge-4313.pdf plain text: ejge-4313.txt item: #60 of 150 id: ejge-4314 author: Gomez-Roman, Cristina; Sabucedo, Jose Manuel title: The Occupy and Indignados movement and the importance of political context: differences between occasionals and regulars in Spain and the UK date: 2016 words: 8810 flesch: 49 summary: Gledhill, Jim (2012) ‘Collecting Occupy London: Public collecting institutions and social protest movements in the 21st century’ Social Movement Studies 11(3-4): 342-348. The analysis of political protests, and more specifically the Occupy/Indignados movement, cannot be carried out in isolation, studying one single action. keywords: context; countries; demonstration; differences; movement; occasionals; occupy; participants; participation; people; protest; regulars; spain cache: ejge-4314.pdf plain text: ejge-4314.txt item: #61 of 150 id: ejge-4315 author: Mitrofanova, Ekaterina; Artamonova, Alyona title: The perspectives of family policy in Russia amid increasing cohabitation date: 2016 words: 8453 flesch: 48 summary: In the second stage the practice of cohabitation becomes more common, and it can be found in almost all social layers, yet these unions remain short (marriages are still longer than cohabitations), are considered as the first step to marriage and regarded as inappropriate for childbirth and parenting. These chro solitude or Marriage a end of the decreases place to th traditional f confirms th 4 We used th The role of co various types regated fa quence Ana ve events of vents, we ad statuses of ours of repre 7, we see ts over gene e responden yet reached s we had to proportions o onograms sh r Living Apa nd marriage age window during the hose who ra form of matr he assumptio he R package T Europ onception in t s (PFS) amily form lyses,4 we f both surve ded the sec life of the re esentatives o the distribu erations. keywords: behaviour; children; cohabitation; conception; education; entry; family; generations; ggs; group; life; marital; marriage; models; people; pfs; population; russia; second; table; transition; union; years cache: ejge-4315.pdf plain text: ejge-4315.txt item: #62 of 150 id: ejge-4316 author: Sarker, Sandip; Khan, Arifuzzaman; Mannan, Mehdad Mamur title: Urban population and economic growth: South Asia perspective date: 2016 words: 5185 flesch: 50 summary: The further panel Vector Error Correction Model (VECM) suggests that there is long run causality running from urban population growth to economic growth in South Asia. C (1) is the residuals of the one period lag of the cointegrating vector between GDP growth and urban population growth. keywords: asia; data; growth; panel; population; relationship; run; south; study; test; urbanization; world cache: ejge-4316.pdf plain text: ejge-4316.txt item: #63 of 150 id: ejge-4317 author: Varela, Diego; Benedetto, Giacomo; Sanchez-Santos, Jose Manuel title: Editorial statement: The first five years of the European Journal of Government and Economics date: 2017 words: 1430 flesch: 44 summary: Peter Benczur, European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy  Oscar Calvo-Gonzalez, World Bank, Washington DC, United States  Jose Ramon Cancelo, Universidade da Coruña, Spain  Raul Caruso, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano, Italy  Luiz de Mello, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, France  Michael Ehrmann, European Central Bank, Frankfurt, Germany  Fabio Franchino, Università degli studi di Milano, Italy  Miriam Hartlapp, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, Germany  Robert Thomson, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom  Frantisek Turnovec, Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Czech Republic  Richard C. Whitaker, University of Leicester, United Kingdom keywords: economics; european; government; journal; years cache: ejge-4317.pdf plain text: ejge-4317.txt item: #64 of 150 id: ejge-4318 author: Paz Pardo, Gonzalo title: Productivity in Europe during the Great Recession: Any evidence for creative destruction? date: 2017 words: 9218 flesch: 55 summary: All companies Small companies Larger companies Pre-crisis productivity * crisis 0.0000912*** (0.00002) 0.0000826*** (0.00002) 0.0001012*** (0.00003) RZ external dependence * crisis -0.0001844*** (0.00005) -0.0001422 Main regression, all firms Dependent variable: log number of employees All companies (10+ employees) RZ measure RZ_eur RZ_US Pre-crisis productivity * crisis 0.0000912*** (0.00002) 0.0000903*** (0.00002) RZ external dependence * crisis -0.0001835*** (0.00005) -0.0001716*** (0.00004) Pre-crisis indebtedness * crisis -0.0000034*** (1.4e-6) -0.00000339 keywords: companies; company; crisis; destruction; effect; employees; firms; growth; level; number; productivity; recessions; year cache: ejge-4318.pdf plain text: ejge-4318.txt item: #65 of 150 id: ejge-4319 author: Pateiro-Rodriguez, Carlos; Prado-Domínguez, Javier; García-Iglesias, Jesús Manuel; Barreiro-Viñán, José Manuel title: Switching costs in the European postal service. Are there any solutions? date: 2017 words: 8271 flesch: 47 summary: Article 6 states that Member States will adopt the necessary measures to ensure that users and postal service providers regularly receive up-to-date information and with sufficient accuracy from UPS providers regarding their universal services. Keywords Liberalization; universal postal service; switching costs; postal network. keywords: access; boxes; competition; costs; customer; delivery; european; incumbent; information; journal; mail; market; new; postal; provider; sector; service; switching cache: ejge-4319.pdf plain text: ejge-4319.txt item: #66 of 150 id: ejge-4320 author: Meyer-Sahling, Jan-Hinrik; Janta, Barbara; Reinholde, Iveta; van Stolk, Christian title: Hidden costs of cuts: Austerity, civil service management and the motivation of public officials in Central and Eastern Europe after the crisis date: 2017 words: 9296 flesch: 48 summary: It builds on the literature on human resource management, motivation and performance in the public and private sector to examine the impact of post-crisis cutbacks in the area of civil service management on the motivation of public officials. Note also that our understanding of motivation differs from the notion of ‘public service motivation’. keywords: administration; austerity; change; crisis; cuts; government; latvia; management; measures; motivation; officials; policy; public; salary; service; training cache: ejge-4320.pdf plain text: ejge-4320.txt item: #67 of 150 id: ejge-4321 author: Huhtilainen, Matias title: The Short Selling Regulation in the EU: Assessing the Authorization Granted for ESMA to Prohibit Short Selling date: 2017 words: 7818 flesch: 52 summary: The difference-in-differences regression and repeated measures GLM were used to test whether short selling bans were successful in containing volatility of those Spanish and Italian stocks that were subject to two back-to-back prohibitions during the years 2011-2013. They further propose that short selling bans may alleviate panic in the markets. keywords: ban; control; economics; european; government; group; italy; journal; market; price; regulation; selling; short; spain; time; volatility cache: ejge-4321.pdf plain text: ejge-4321.txt item: #68 of 150 id: ejge-4322 author: Peón, David; Antelo, Manel; Calvo-Silvosa, Anxo title: An inclusive taxonomy of behavioral biases date: 2017 words: 15999 flesch: 44 summary: Open debate The clash between the efficient and the inefficient shortcut views stands on whether the availability heuristic is useful to assess probability because instances of large classes are better recalled, or it leads to decision biases since it is affected by factors other than frequency –e.g. imagination, familiarity and salience. In te rt em po ra l pr ef er en ce s PREFERENCE REVERSALS Projection bias Projection bias: Loewenstein et al. (2003) Self control Precommitment Self-control: Loewenstein (1996) keywords: aversion; behavior; biases; choice; decision; economics; effects; et al; european journal; evidence; finance; financial; framing; government; heuristic; journal; kahneman; literature; loss; making; people; peón; psychology; reference; research; review; risk; self; thaler; theory; tversky cache: ejge-4322.pdf plain text: ejge-4322.txt item: #69 of 150 id: ejge-4323 author: Soboleva, Natalia title: Perceptions of gender equality in post-crisis Europe date: 2017 words: 8212 flesch: 59 summary: Bergh defines gender attitudes as ‘normative beliefs about what gender relations in society should be like, or the extent to which a person supports the norm of gender equality’ (Bergh, 2006: 6). Perceptions of gender equality in post-crisis Europe European Journal of Government and Economics 6(1), June 2017, 59-77. keywords: attitudes; change; countries; crisis; equality; gdp; gender; gender equality; level; perceptions; unemployment; women cache: ejge-4323.pdf plain text: ejge-4323.txt item: #70 of 150 id: ejge-4324 author: Boadi, Isaac; Amegbe, Hayford title: The Link between Quality of Governance and Stock Market Performance: International Level Evidence date: 2017 words: 9693 flesch: 55 summary: The expanding and improving stock markets in developing countries demonstrate an important concern of how government frameworks affect stock market performance. The present study investigates the link between quality of governance and stock market performance within the context of international markets. keywords: corruption; countries; country; economics; equity; governance; government; income; international; journal; law; level; market; middle; performance; quality; stock; stock market; study cache: ejge-4324.pdf plain text: ejge-4324.txt item: #71 of 150 id: ejge-4325 author: Boudreaux, Christopher J; Holcombe, Randall title: Institutional quality and the wealth of autocrats date: 2017 words: 8044 flesch: 40 summary: While the quality of economic institutions appears to have weak effects on autocrat wealth, as political institutions do. 116 C. Boudreaux and R. Holcombe / European Journal of Government and Economics 6(2), 106-125 In all regressions, whether the Polity2 index or variants of the Freedom House index are used to quantify the quality of political institutions, lower-quality political institutions are associated with higher levels of autocrat wealth. keywords: autocrats; benefit; countries; freedom; government; initial; institutions; journal; power; quality; quality institutions; rights; tenure; wealth cache: ejge-4325.pdf plain text: ejge-4325.txt item: #72 of 150 id: ejge-4326 author: Brady, Gordon L.; Magazzino, Cosimo title: Sustainability of Italian budgetary policies: a time series analysis (1862-2013) date: 2017 words: 9472 flesch: 61 summary: Intertemporal budget constraint and public debt sustainability: 141 G. Brady and C. Magazzino / European Journal of Government and Economics 6(2), 126-145 the case of Italy. Italian public debt does not seem to be sustainable although consolidation efforts in the Nineties have stabilized Italian debt. keywords: cointegration; debt; doi; economics; european; government; italian; italy; journal; magazzino; period; policy; root; series; sustainability; tests; time; unit cache: ejge-4326.pdf plain text: ejge-4326.txt item: #73 of 150 id: ejge-4327 author: Membiela-Pollán, Matías; Pena-López, José Atilano title: Clarifying the concept of social capital through its three perspectives: individualistic, communitarian and macrosocial date: 2017 words: 11856 flesch: 48 summary: Social capital; individual social capital; communitarian perspective of social capital; general trust JEL classification. Social capital; individual social capital; communitarian perspective of social capital; general trust JEL classification. keywords: capital; civic; concept; economics; government; individual; journal; lópez; membiela; networks; pena; perspective; putnam; resources; social; society; trust cache: ejge-4327.pdf plain text: ejge-4327.txt item: #74 of 150 id: ejge-4328 author: Ruesga-Benito, Santos Miguel; González-Laxe, Fernando Ignacio; Picatoste, Jose title: The debate on the economic effects of minimum wage legislation date: 2017 words: 9481 flesch: 56 summary: Minimum wage effects on hours, employment and number of firms: the Iowa case. The central contribution of this paper is providing a general reflection on theoretical and empirical analysis about the debate on minimum wage and its effects. keywords: benito; doi; economic; effects; employment; european; government; growth; increase; journal; labor; market; minimum; minimum wage; ruesga; wage; workers cache: ejge-4328.pdf plain text: ejge-4328.txt item: #75 of 150 id: ejge-4329 author: Nawaz, Nasreen title: An optimal quantity tax path in a dynamic setting date: 2017 words: 11079 flesch: 63 summary: The area between the lines 0,=)(tM and )(=)( ∞MtM is the efficiency loss resulting from a difference in pre and post tax market equilibriums. The area between the lines 0,=)(tM and )(=)( ∞MtM is the efficiency loss resulting from a difference in pre and post tax market equilibriums. keywords: demand; economics; equilibrium; government; inventory; market; middleman; price; supply; tax; time cache: ejge-4329.pdf plain text: ejge-4329.txt item: #76 of 150 id: ejge-4330 author: Hawley, Adrian John title: Regulating labour platforms, the data deficit date: 2018 words: 8714 flesch: 38 summary: Data; gig economy; social market; labour platforms; public policy; soft power 1. Data; gig economy; social market; labour platforms; public policy; soft power References keywords: data; economics; economy; employment; european; gig; government; hawley; journal; labour; market; paper; platforms; policy; social; uber; work; workers; working cache: ejge-4330.pdf plain text: ejge-4330.txt item: #77 of 150 id: ejge-4331 author: Martín-Legendre, Juan Ignacio title: The challenge of measuring poverty and inequality: a comparative analysis of the main indicators date: 2018 words: 7461 flesch: 55 summary: Income inequality, indicators, inequality metrics, poverty metrics JEL classification. By doing so, if we calculate the Atkinson index for different levels of inequality aversion, we can determine if the changes in income inequality in a certain population are being driven more by changes at the top or at the bottom of the distribution. keywords: countries; distribution; economics; income; income distribution; index; inequality; line; population; poverty cache: ejge-4331.pdf plain text: ejge-4331.txt item: #78 of 150 id: ejge-4332 author: Haile, Meaza Birhane; Mastalka, Martin title: Contemporary decision-making of mid-size city in the Czech Republic using Multiple Criteria Decision-making date: 2018 words: 6066 flesch: 60 summary: The criteria that are designed by the local government and used by the sample municipality for selecting projects are: • urgency, • availability of external sources, • economy, • readiness, • compliance with city strategic development plan, and • synergy with other projects. Synergy with other projects – several projects are linked to each other. keywords: ahp; city; criteria; decision; government; journal; making; methods; process; project cache: ejge-4332.pdf plain text: ejge-4332.txt item: #79 of 150 id: ejge-4333 author: Raifu, Isiaka Akande; Raheem, Abiodun Najeem title: Do Government Revenues Matter for Economic Growth? Evidence from Nigeria date: 2018 words: 12409 flesch: 52 summary: 76 that there exists a unidirectional causality between oil revenues, non-oil revenues and total revenues with the direction of causality running from oil revenue, non-oil revenue and total revenue to economic growth. Trend of real GDP and oil revenue growth rate (1982-2013) keywords: economic; economy; government; government revenues; growth; journal; nigeria; oil; oil revenues; relationship; results; revenues; run; t t; tax; test cache: ejge-4333.pdf plain text: ejge-4333.txt item: #80 of 150 id: ejge-4334 author: Lopez-Bermudez, Beatriz; Freire-Seoane, María Jesús; de la Peña Zarzuelo, Ignacio title: The impact of port governance and infrastructures on maritime containerized trade on the West Coast of Latin America date: 2018 words: 6675 flesch: 57 summary: To analyze the relationship between TEUs, GDP and port variables, a regression panel data model has been used with the aim of achieving consistent and efficient estimators of the partial effects of the observable independent variables on the dependent one, expressed as β = ∂E[yit | xit]/∂xit (Greene, 2001). The impact of port governance and infrastructures on maritime containerized trade on the West Coast of Latin America European Journal of Government and Economics 7(1), June 2018, 85-101. keywords: data; economics; european; governance; government; growth; journal; latin; model; port; teus; trade; transport; web cache: ejge-4334.pdf plain text: ejge-4334.txt item: #81 of 150 id: ejge-4411 author: Martín Palmero, Federico; González Laxe, Fernando title: Path – Dependence and European Fisheries Management date: 2018 words: 7529 flesch: 51 summary: Also, thanks to this disagreement, the failure of attempts to palliate the effects of more intensive fishing by rebuilding fishing stocks is also evident. The externalities in the fisheries sector are a consequence of market failures and this brings about serious consequences as regards fishing management policies. keywords: cfp; dependence; economics; european; fisheries; fishing; gonzález; government; journal; laxe; management; path; policy; stocks cache: ejge-4411.pdf plain text: ejge-4411.txt item: #82 of 150 id: ejge-4423 author: Figueira, Filipa title: Why the current Peak in Populism in the US and Europe? Populism as a Deviation in the Median Voter Theorem date: 2018 words: 8623 flesch: 51 summary: In Riker’s seminal “Liberalism versus Populism” (1982), populism is understood as the view that democracy should be primarily a mechanism for ensuring that people’s views are represented – in opposition to liberalism, where democracy should be primarily concerned with ensuring that people’s best interests are represented. Populism, persistent republicanism and declinism: An empirical analysis of populism as a thin ideology. keywords: article; europe; european; government; journal; left; median; parties; populism; right; spectrum; theorem; voter cache: ejge-4423.pdf plain text: ejge-4423.txt item: #83 of 150 id: ejge-4508 author: Risso, Wiston title: Deciding on Financial Renegotiation in Public-Private Partnership Projects date: 2018 words: 12948 flesch: 53 summary: The control of moral hazard in PPP project renegotiation. Before conducting the analysis of the four case studies, an exercise was carried out to determine whether the level of PPP contract renegotiations might have some connection with the probability of renegotiating. keywords: case; contract; cost; developer; doi; economics; european; government; indicator; infrastructure; journal; ppp; project; public; rate; renegotiation; risk; risso; sector; vfm cache: ejge-4508.pdf plain text: ejge-4508.txt item: #84 of 150 id: ejge-4509 author: Jiménez, Juan Luis; Albalate, Daniel title: Transparency and local government corruption: what does lack of transparency hide? date: 2018 words: 7092 flesch: 46 summary: Among others, one mechanism through which transparency mitigates corruption has to do with the principal-agent theory. European Journal of Government and Economics ISSN: 2254-7088 Number 7, issue 2, December 2018 DOI: https://doi.org/10.17979/ejge.2017.7.2 Transparency and local government corruption: what does lack of transparency hide? 106-122 Juan Luis Jiménez, Daniel Albalate 106-122 Exchange policy credibility through the lens of the carry trade: The Mexican peso and the Brazilian real. keywords: albalate; cases; corruption; doi; economics; european; government; information; jiménez; journal; local; municipalities; public; spain; transparency cache: ejge-4509.pdf plain text: ejge-4509.txt item: #85 of 150 id: ejge-4520 author: Fernández-Herraiz, Carlos; Prado Domínguez, Antonio Javier; Pateiro-Rodriguez, Carlos; Garcia-Iglesias, Jesus M. title: Exchange policy credibility through the lens of the carry trade: The Mexican peso and the Brazilian real. date: 2018 words: 6618 flesch: 53 summary: Global speculators' access to shadow banking financing allows them to build dynamic carry trade strategies that are a source of potential financial instability. One might therefore wonder whether it is not the financing of trade in these assets that underpins carry trade strategies, and whether the ocean on which they are traded is not shadow banking. keywords: brazilian; carry; carry trade; currency; exchange; journal; market; policy; real; strategies; strategy; trade cache: ejge-4520.pdf plain text: ejge-4520.txt item: #86 of 150 id: ejge-4565 author: Iheonu, Chimere Okechukwu title: Governance and Domestic Investment in Africa date: 2019 words: 8179 flesch: 52 summary: The study empirically examined the impact of governance on domestic investment in 16 African countries with a balanced panel data set, between the years 2002 and 2015. The Driscoll and Kraay Fixed Effects model which accounts for serial correlation, groupwise heteroskedasticity and cross-sectional dependence were employed with empirical results revealing that all the indicators of governance positively and significantly influence domestic investment in Africa, except for government effectiveness which happens to be insignificant. keywords: africa; corruption; countries; doi; economic; effects; governance; government; growth; investment; journal; model; quality; rate; study; test cache: ejge-4565.pdf plain text: ejge-4565.txt item: #87 of 150 id: ejge-4572 author: Yoon, Donghun title: The evaluation index improvement for the relocation of research equipment date: 2019 words: 7620 flesch: 42 summary: The evaluation index for research equipment relocation needs for the objective and fair relocation of research equipment. There were so many researchers who had applied for research equipment utilization that it was necessary to develop an evaluation index for the objective and fair relocation of research equipment. keywords: contribution; cost; economics; european; evaluation; government; index; journal; policy; r&d; relocation; research equipment; science; table; technology; utilization cache: ejge-4572.pdf plain text: ejge-4572.txt item: #88 of 150 id: ejge-4573 author: Mihálik, Jaroslav; Horváth, Peter; Švikruha, Martin title: Give me liberty or give me money: the fiscal decentralization and autonomy of regional governance in Slovakia date: 2019 words: 6692 flesch: 53 summary: In the discussion, objections may arise in the case of inclusion of income tax revenues for regional governments in ordinary non-specific subsidies. Although regional governments are responsible, pursuant to law, for the comprehensive integrative development of the respective region, their own direct impact over the economic, social and environmental development is substantially low. keywords: autonomy; budget; decentralization; european; government; income; income tax; level; regional; regions; self; state; tax cache: ejge-4573.pdf plain text: ejge-4573.txt item: #89 of 150 id: ejge-4574 author: Biltagy, Marwa Shibl title: Economic Analysis of Supply Functions, Private Returns to Investment in Education and Skill Mismatch in Egypt date: 2019 words: 5888 flesch: 50 summary: They argued that private returns to higher education have increased over time and females continue to have higher average rates of return to schooling. Among the challenges facing educational institutions is the issue of incompatibility between outputs of higher education on the one hand and the requirements of the labor market on the other, which resulted in the existence of large numbers of graduates without work (high rates of unemployment). keywords: earnings; education; individual; investment; journal; labor; market; rate; return; schooling; supply cache: ejge-4574.pdf plain text: ejge-4574.txt item: #90 of 150 id: ejge-4575 author: Nayebyazdi, Arash title: Social capital and banking system profitability: A survey of European Union countries date: 2019 words: 6731 flesch: 51 summary: Abstract: Over the last years, the concept of social capital as a facilitator of economic activities has been a remarkable issue among economists. In this article, we study the impact of social capital on banking performance focusing on profitability in the European Union for period 2008-2016. keywords: bank; banking; capital; countries; data; doi; economics; european; government; impact; journal; performance; profitability; social; trust; variables cache: ejge-4575.pdf plain text: ejge-4575.txt item: #91 of 150 id: ejge-4580 author: Ramón Cardona, José; Álvarez Bassi, Daniel; Sánchez-Fernández, María Dolores title: Residents’ attitudes towards different tourist offers: Maldonado-Punta del Este conurbation (Uruguay) date: 2019 words: 7515 flesch: 50 summary: 4.048 0.940 0.737 Social Benefits: Thanks to tourism residents have a better and wider range of leisure and entertainment. The objective of this paper is to analyse the relationship between the perception of the different types of impacts, the general attitude toward tourism and various types of tourism offer: sport tourism, maritime tourism, nature tourism and sun and beach tourism. keywords: acceptance; analysis; attitude; benefits; costs; doi; economics; effect; general; hypothesis; journal; perception; research; residents; tourism cache: ejge-4580.pdf plain text: ejge-4580.txt item: #92 of 150 id: ejge-4656 author: Huhtilainen, Matias title: The Impact of CRD IV on Bank Lending date: 2019 words: 6369 flesch: 54 summary: Discussion This study contributed to the literature on bank capital requirements in two ways. Similarly, the results by Noss and Toffano (2016) suggest a decrease in lending subsequent to an increase in aggregate bank capital requirement, but that the effect is larger in corporate lending vis-à-vis to the household lending. keywords: assets; bank; banking; capital; credit; doi; economics; european; journal; lending; loans; regulation; requirements; supply cache: ejge-4656.pdf plain text: ejge-4656.txt item: #93 of 150 id: ejge-4970 author: Asongu, Simplice title: FDI in Selected Developing Countries: Evidence from Bundling and Unbundling Governance date: 2019 words: 12582 flesch: 50 summary: Secondly, the significance of the governance dynamics in increasing order of magnitude are general governance, political governance, economic governance, political stability, regulation quality and government effectiveness. Thirdly, for non-contemporary specifications, the significance of governance variables is as follows in ascending order of magnitude: economic governance, institutional governance, general governance, corruption-control, political governance and political stability. keywords: africa; asongu; business; contemporary; control; countries; december; determinants; development; doi; economic; effects; european; fdi; foreign; governance; government; investment; journal; quality; stability; variables cache: ejge-4970.pdf plain text: ejge-4970.txt item: #94 of 150 id: ejge-4989 author: Bonanno, Filippo title: Why regions fail (or succeed). The Role of Government Institutions in the Long-Run date: 2019 words: 10036 flesch: 48 summary: By adopting an approach to growth analysis based on binary response models, this paper quantifies the extent to which the quality of government institutions has shaped regional economic performances in the European Union throughout the period comprising the Great Recession. Next, a Probit model will be estimated for each of the four cases in order to explain to what extent institutional quality has shaped regional economic performances during the period under analysis. keywords: average; economics; eqi; european; gdp; government; growth; gva; institutions; investment; journal; market; probability; quality; regions; services cache: ejge-4989.pdf plain text: ejge-4989.txt item: #95 of 150 id: ejge-5074 author: Öz Yalaman, Gamze title: The Relationship Between Corporate Tax Rate and Economic Growth During the Global Financial Crisis: Evidence from a Panel VAR date: 2019 words: 6149 flesch: 60 summary: GRi,t denotes economic growth rate in different countries, while TRi,t denotes corporate tax rates. Lee and Gordon (2005) investigate taxation policies and economic growth relationship in a cross-section data set of 70 countries over the period from 1970-1997. keywords: crisis; doi; economic; effect; growth; journal; period; rate; relationship; tax; taxation cache: ejge-5074.pdf plain text: ejge-5074.txt item: #96 of 150 id: ejge-5231 author: Duffield, John S title: The politics of renewable power in Spain date: 2020 words: 11032 flesch: 37 summary: One set of common efforts focused on slowing the growth in renewable power support (del Río 2016). The politics of renewable power in Spain Vol.9 • No.1 2020 ISSN: 2254-7088 European Journal of Government and Economics 9(1), June 2020. keywords: capacity; del; duffield; economics; electricity; energy; energía; european; government; journal; june; percent; power; río; solar; spain; support; wind cache: ejge-5231.pdf plain text: ejge-5231.txt item: #97 of 150 id: ejge-5426 author: Daskalopoulou, Irene title: Voting turnout in Greece: expressive or instrumental? date: 2020 words: 9087 flesch: 47 summary: In particular, we test for the effects of citizens’ socio-economic features, political participation, activism and trust as pointing to either an expressive or instrumental voting decision process. voting turnout; political participation; activism; trust; economic crisis; Greece JEL Codes. keywords: crisis; daskalopoulou; democracy; economic; european; government; greece; journal; june; model; participation; trust; turnout; voters; voting cache: ejge-5426.pdf plain text: ejge-5426.txt item: #98 of 150 id: ejge-5478 author: Catarino, João Ricardo; Moraes e Soares, Ricardo title: Restructuring the European VAT tax system: advantages and disadvantages of the adoption of a single-rate model - a study based on the Portuguese case date: 2019 words: 8099 flesch: 55 summary: The economist Arthur Laffer conceived in 1974, a curve to explain the elasticity of tax revenue, and how tax rates influence the amount of revenue. For Laffer, the main objective of the curve was to incite to a critical reflection on distortions and the loss of incentives that tax rates create in the economy, and these rates, as they are increased, can reduce tax revenue (Lima et al., 2006) keywords: december; economics; european; gdp; government; journal; model; portugal; rate; rate model; revenue; tax; tax rate; tax revenue; vat; vat rate cache: ejge-5478.pdf plain text: ejge-5478.txt item: #99 of 150 id: ejge-5714 author: Stricker, Luzius; Baruffini, Moreno title: The effect of reduced unemployment duration on the unemployment rate: a Synthetic Control Approach date: 2020 words: 11142 flesch: 53 summary: Unemployment rates Employment Social indexes Education SECO ILO swiss foreign -ers annual growth rate tertiary sector share assist -ance poverty median taxable income maturit y quota unit rate rate rate rate rate quota quota quota CHF quota Canton Basel- Stadt mean 3.738 4.038 2.814 5.672 0.007 0.718 6.144 11.067 52175 31.571 sd 0.904 0.585 0.639 1.811 0.013 0.019 0.445 1.316 3022 8.651 Schaff- hausen mean 2.978 3.444 1.993 6.172 0.009 0.680 2.367 5.144 49293 29.512 sd 0.916 0.498 0.559 2.350 0.012 0.015 0.194 0.340 2819 7.377 Thur-gau mean 2.467 3.444 1.724 4.942 0.009 0.680 1.656 3.144 48495 23.141 sd 0.740 0.498 0.488 1.769 0.012 0.015 0.124 0.159 3280 7.629 Ticino mean 4.283 5.869 3.325 6.517 0.014 0.752 2.078 8.833 44508 41.269 sd 1.328 1.045 0.960 2.141 0.018 0.012 0.273 0.296 4279 7.898 Valais mean 3.811 6.356 2.800 7.532 0.016 0.809 1.456 3.156 41840 29.296 sd 1.595 0.979 1.308 2.946 0.014 0.012 0.159 1.063 4166 6.627 Zürich mean 3.417 4.025 2.514 6.146 0.011 0.830 3.344 5.333 55540 29.130 sd 0.921 0.512 0.679 1.908 0.019 0.018 0.235 0.458 3766 6.031 To develop the model, a number of data series from different sources were taken into account. Unemployment rates (SECO) of Ticino (treated) and cantons in the donor pool. keywords: cantons; control; economics; journal; law; period; pre; rate rate; revision; scenario; seco; synthetic; ticino; treatment; unemployment rate cache: ejge-5714.pdf plain text: ejge-5714.txt item: #100 of 150 id: ejge-5776 author: Pattichis, Charalambos title: Government balance-consistent economic growth rates and their implications: A study of the euro area countries date: 2020 words: 6320 flesch: 54 summary: balanced budget; budget deficits; economic growth JEL Codes. The next section focuses on the effects of budget deficits, while section 3 explains the theoretical model and research approach. keywords: budget; countries; deficits; economic; government; growth; model; rates cache: ejge-5776.pdf plain text: ejge-5776.txt item: #101 of 150 id: ejge-5840 author: Martínez-Moreno, Alfonso; Cavas-García, Francisco; Cano-Noguera, Francisco; Díaz-Suárez, Arturo title: Female leadership in sports clubs date: 2020 words: 5054 flesch: 46 summary: Tendencias actuales de género y el liderazgo de la dirección en los diferentes niveles educativos. The study concluded that the collective sports directors opt for the style of transformational leadership by being proactive and promoting the achievement of extraordinary goals. keywords: clubs; collective; del; european; individual; journal; leadership; liderazgo; martínez; sports; study; style; type; women cache: ejge-5840.pdf plain text: ejge-5840.txt item: #102 of 150 id: ejge-5841 author: Pradas García, Marcos; Maciá Andreu, María José; García-Tascón, Marta; Gallardo Guerrero, Ana María title: Analysis of loyalty and future intentions of the users of the golf courses in Andalusia, Spain date: 2020 words: 8780 flesch: 60 summary: It is a descriptive, non-experimental and cross-cutting/transversal study which aims to analyse the loyalty of golf course users in Andalusia. sports management, loyalty, golf courses JEL Codes. keywords: courses; de golf; del; economics; european; garcía; golf; golf course; government; journal; loyalty; play; problem; service; spain; study; tourism; users; women; years cache: ejge-5841.pdf plain text: ejge-5841.txt item: #103 of 150 id: ejge-5842 author: Garcia-del-Barrio, Pedro; Rossi, Giambattista title: How the UEFA Financial Fair Play regulations affect football clubs’ priorities and leagues’ competitive balance? date: 2020 words: 11276 flesch: 55 summary: 119-142 DOI: https://doi.org/10.17979/ejge.2020.9.2.5842 Pedro Garcia-del-Barrio and Giambattista Rossi Surveys assessing sports services and municipal governance 143-154 DOI: https://doi.org/10.17979/ejge.2020.9.2.5949 Júlia Bosch, Laureà Fanega, Jaume García, Núria Hernández, Xavier Moya, and Carles Murillo Evaluation of the perceived social impacts of the Formula E Grand Prix of Santiago de Chile 155-169 DOI: https://doi.org/10.17979/ejge.2020.9.2.5850 David Parra-Camacho, Daniel Michel Duclos Bastías, Frano Giakoni Ramírez, and Samuel López-Carril Comparative analysis of income trends and perceived value of squad of the highest turnover European football clubs (2010-2019) 170-180 DOI: https://doi.org/10.17979/ejge.2020.9.2.5953 Benito Pérez-González, Luis de la Riva, José Bonal, and Álvaro Fernández-Luna Analysis of loyalty and future intentions of the users of the golf courses in Andalusia, Spain 181-199 DOI: https://doi.org/10.17979/ejge.2020.9.2.5841 Marcos Pradas García, María José Maciá Andreu, Marta García-Tascón, and Ana María Gallardo Guerrero Female leadership in sports clubs 200-209 DOI: https://doi.org/10.17979/ejge.2020.9.2.5840 Alfonso Martínez-Moreno, Francisco Cavas-García, Francisco Cano-Noguera, and Arturo Díaz-Suárez The profile of leisure time sports people and their reason for doing sport in Spanish sports facilities 210-219 DOI: https://doi.org/10.17979/ejge.2020.9.2.5846 Moisés Grimaldi-Puyana, Pablo Gálvez-Ruiz, Manel Valcarce-Torrente, and Ainara Bernal-García https://doi.org/10.17979/ejge.2020.9.2 Then, Aguiar-Noury and Garcia-del-Barrio (2019) provide empirical evidence to advocate that the historical brand status of football clubs has to be taken into account for reducing the risk typically associated to investments in the sports industry. keywords: analysis; barrio; clubs; del; economics; european; ffp; financial; football; journal; leagues; regulations; revenues; season; sport; teams; uefa; wage; wrr cache: ejge-5842.pdf plain text: ejge-5842.txt item: #104 of 150 id: ejge-5846 author: Grimaldi Puyana, Moises; Gálvez-Ruiz, Pablo; Valcarce-Torrente, Manel; Bernal-García, Ainara title: The profile of leisure time sports people and their reason for doing sport in Spanish sports facilities date: 2020 words: 4459 flesch: 60 summary: The profile of leisure time sports people and their reason for doing sport in Spanish sports facilities Vol.9 • No.2 2020 ISSN: 2254-7088 Special Issue. 119-142 DOI: https://doi.org/10.17979/ejge.2020.9.2.5842 Pedro Garcia-del-Barrio and Giambattista Rossi Surveys assessing sports services and municipal governance 143-154 DOI: https://doi.org/10.17979/ejge.2020.9.2.5949 Júlia Bosch, Laureà Fanega, Jaume García, Núria Hernández, Xavier Moya, and Carles Murillo Evaluation of the perceived social impacts of the Formula E Grand Prix of Santiago de Chile 155-169 DOI: https://doi.org/10.17979/ejge.2020.9.2.5850 David Parra-Camacho, Daniel Michel Duclos Bastías, Frano Giakoni Ramírez, and Samuel López-Carril Comparative analysis of income trends and perceived value of squad of the highest turnover European football clubs (2010-2019) 170-180 DOI: https://doi.org/10.17979/ejge.2020.9.2.5953 Benito Pérez-González, Luis de la Riva, José Bonal, and Álvaro Fernández-Luna Analysis of loyalty and future intentions of the users of the golf courses in Andalusia, Spain 181-199 DOI: https://doi.org/10.17979/ejge.2020.9.2.5841 Marcos Pradas García, María José Maciá Andreu, Marta García-Tascón, and Ana María Gallardo Guerrero Female leadership in sports clubs 200-209 DOI: https://doi.org/10.17979/ejge.2020.9.2.5840 Alfonso Martínez-Moreno, Francisco Cavas-García, Francisco Cano-Noguera, and Arturo Díaz-Suárez The profile of leisure time sports people and their reason for doing sport in Spanish sports facilities 210-219 DOI: https://doi.org/10.17979/ejge.2020.9.2.5846 Moisés Grimaldi-Puyana, Pablo Gálvez-Ruiz, Manel Valcarce-Torrente, and Ainara Bernal-García https://doi.org/10.17979/ejge.2020.9.2 keywords: european; garcía; grimaldi; leisure; puyana; sports; users; years cache: ejge-5846.pdf plain text: ejge-5846.txt item: #105 of 150 id: ejge-5847 author: Pawełek, Barbara title: A comparative analysis of the European Union member states in terms of public spending on environmental protection in 2004-2017 date: 2020 words: 8201 flesch: 50 summary: To eliminate the impact of short-term changes on the results of the comparative analysis of member states in terms of public spending on environmental protection, the annual data from the period of seven years were averaged. The results of the conducted research enrich the knowledge on the occurrence of convergence in public spending on environmental protection in the European Union countries. keywords: capita; cluster; convergence; european; european union; expenditure; gdp; government; journal; member states; protection; spending; union member cache: ejge-5847.pdf plain text: ejge-5847.txt item: #106 of 150 id: ejge-5850 author: Parra-Camacho, David; Duclos Bastías, Daniel Michel; Giakoni Ramírez, Frano; López-Carril, Samuel title: Evaluation of the perceived social impacts of the Formula E Grand Prix of Santiago de Chile date: 2020 words: 7932 flesch: 55 summary: Residents’ changed perceptions of sport event impacts: the case of the 2012 Tour de Taiwan. The final model consists of 27 indicators grouped into the following factors: socioeconomic impact (6 items), impact on infrastructure and urban development (6 items), political and administrative impact (5 items), psychosocial impact (3 items), sociocultural impact (4 items) and sports impact (3 items). keywords: et al; event; formula; fredline; groups; impact; items; journal; parra; residents; social; sport; sporting cache: ejge-5850.pdf plain text: ejge-5850.txt item: #107 of 150 id: ejge-5947 author: Mwangi, Esther Nyambura; Chen, Fuzhong; Njoroge, Daniel title: Governance and net-import dependency on food and agricultural products in Sub-Saharan Africa: does any causality exist? date: 2021 words: 10859 flesch: 53 summary: The number of countries depending on food imports and the rate of import dependency have been growing gradually as population and national income increases. However, an increase in political stability is expected to increase food and agricultural import dependency. keywords: agriculture; causality; countries; dependency; development; economics; food; governance; government; import; import dependency; index; model; results; run; table; test; trade; world cache: ejge-5947.pdf plain text: ejge-5947.txt item: #108 of 150 id: ejge-5948 author: Kilci, Esra N title: Do confidence indicators have an impact on macro-financial indicators? An analysis of the financial service and real sector confidence indexes: evidence from Turkey date: 2020 words: 10145 flesch: 46 summary: The objective of this study is to evaluate the empirical validity of the real sector and financial services confidence indexes in anticipating the evolution of economic activity by considering monthly data from 2012:05 to 2019:05. 3. Literature Review Expectations and uncertainty about future economic and financial outlook, which are of key importance particularly according to the behavioral finance theory, are measured through confidence indexes such as consumer confidence index, real sector confidence index and financial services confidence index, which are regularly followed by central banks, governments and other private institutions. keywords: confidence; confidence index; confidence indicators; consumer; economic; european; fourier; index; indicators; journal; period; root; sector; test; turkey; unit; variables cache: ejge-5948.pdf plain text: ejge-5948.txt item: #109 of 150 id: ejge-5949 author: Bosch, Júlia; Fanega, Laureà; García, Jaume; Hernández, Núria; Moya, Xavier; Murillo, Carles title: Surveys assessing sports services and municipal governance date: 2020 words: 5655 flesch: 57 summary: 4. Satisfaction survey among members of municipal sport facilities L'Hospitalet City Council’s Servei d'Esports (Sports Service) carries out an annual satisfaction survey among the members of the municipal sport facilities to gather their opinion on certain relevant aspects, such as cleaning and membership price, among others. Detailed analysis of satisfaction surveys conducted among the population can help the municipal management of sports facilities. keywords: assessment; city; facilities; group; management; price; sports; table; total cache: ejge-5949.pdf plain text: ejge-5949.txt item: #110 of 150 id: ejge-5953 author: Pérez-González, Benito; de la Riva, Luis; Bonal, José; Fernández-Luna, Alvaro title: Comparative analysis of income trends and perceived value of squad of the highest turnover European football clubs (2010-2019) date: 2020 words: 4948 flesch: 56 summary: Different studies show that European football clubs aim to maximize victories, not profits. Thus, based on the growing and changing economic situation of European football clubs and the importance of the testing of crowds in the players’ market value, this research aimed to analyse the income variation of the 13 top football clubs in the ranking of the last Deloitte Football Money League Report (2019) during the last 9 seasons, as well as the variation of the perceived value of their squad, during the same period, and if there is a relation between both factors. keywords: clubs; deloitte; economics; economía; european; football; gonzález; government; income; journal; league; market; money; players; pérez; value cache: ejge-5953.pdf plain text: ejge-5953.txt item: #111 of 150 id: ejge-5966 author: Hörisch, Felix; Tosun, Jale; Erhardt, Julian; Maloney, William title: Varieties of Capitalism and labour market opportunities for the youth: A comparison of attitudes towards skill formation date: 2020 words: 9881 flesch: 51 summary: Along this line, Streeck (2011) argued that it is important to note that general skills do not go hand-in-hand with high skills, and specific skills do not automatically accompany low skills. For example, Estévez-Abe et al. (2001) distinguish between firm- specific skills, industry-specific skills and general skills. keywords: attitudes; capitalism; cent; cmes; education; european; formation; job; journal; market; new; respondents; skills cache: ejge-5966.pdf plain text: ejge-5966.txt item: #112 of 150 id: ejge-6717 author: Iheonu, Chimere Okechukwu; Nwodo, Ozoemena; Anaduaka, Uchechi; Ekpo, Ugochinyere; Iheonu, Chimere Okechukwu title: Inequality and female labour force participation in West Africa date: 2020 words: 6114 flesch: 43 summary: Also, Forgha and Mbella (2016) studied the determinants of female labour force participation in Cameroon for 37 years using GMM estimation technique and revealed that fertility rate, dependency ratio, per capita income and male labour force were significantly the determinants of female labour force participation rate in Cameroon. Method In understanding the influence of income inequality on female labour force participation in West Africa, the study employs the instrumental variable fixed effects model due to the following reasons (1) the instrumental variable fixed effects model is robust to simultaneity/reverse causality – a notable feature in income inequality and female labour force participation relationship, and (2) it accounts for unobserved heterogeneity in the modelling exercise. keywords: africa; economic; female; force; force participation; income; inequality; labour; labour force; participation; study; west cache: ejge-6717.pdf plain text: ejge-6717.txt item: #113 of 150 id: ejge-6787 author: Obakemi, Funsho; Adebowale, Hammed Adesola; Yusuf , Babatunde Nageri; Nev, Timothy Terwase; Obakemi, Funsho title: Political business cycle and fiscal discipline in Sub-Saharan Africa date: 2021 words: 10227 flesch: 51 summary: As a result, there are arguments for and against the effects of fiscal deficits on economies. Thus, while fiscal deficits are difficult, if not impossible, to prevent in some cases, their persistence has been characterized as fiscal indiscipline (Aidt, Asatryan, Badalyan, & Heinemann, 2015). keywords: budget; countries; deficit; democracy; economic; election; european; government; growth; journal; pbc; results; spending; ssa; studies; year cache: ejge-6787.pdf plain text: ejge-6787.txt item: #114 of 150 id: ejge-6999 author: Sánchez Gabarre, Mary Elena; Sánchez-Gabarre, Mary title: Stock prices, uncertainty and risks: Evidence from developing and advanced economies date: 2020 words: 6921 flesch: 54 summary: economic policy uncertainty; geopolitics; stock markets; uncertainty; volatility JEL Codes. To study this relationship, as a novel aspect in the analysis, as far as uncertainty is concerned, we use three representative indicators at a world level, rarely taken into account together: economic policy uncertainty, stock markets volatility and geopolitical risks. keywords: case; economic; government; i(0; journal; market; model; policy; relationship; stock; term; test; uncertainty; variables; volatility cache: ejge-6999.pdf plain text: ejge-6999.txt item: #115 of 150 id: ejge-7083 author: Boto-García, David; Álvarez, Antonio; Baños Pino, José Francisco; BOTO-GARCIA, DAVID title: The effect of Euribor on banking profitability: evidence from the Spanish banking system date: 2021 words: 11930 flesch: 58 summary: The determinants of bank interest rate margins, an international study. Accordingly, the relationship between the interest rates spread and bank profitability is market-specific. keywords: assets; bank; banking; economics; effect; et al; euribor; european; interest; journal; loans; log; profitability; rate; sector; yield cache: ejge-7083.pdf plain text: ejge-7083.txt item: #116 of 150 id: ejge-7165 author: Amaral, Marco; Amaral, Marco title: Liquidity of commercial banks in Portugal and Spain date: 2021 words: 8622 flesch: 54 summary: Bank liquidity increased slightly during the period of the financial crisis in both countries, namely between from 2007 to 2009. Finally, it is concluded that smaller banks have less fluctuating liquidity management, i.e., large and medium-sized banks show greater variation in bank liquidity in the period under analysis, i.e., they are less liquid. keywords: assets; bank liquidity; banking; banks; economics; european; financial; journal; liquidity; portuguese; ratio; risk; size; system cache: ejge-7165.pdf plain text: ejge-7165.txt item: #117 of 150 id: ejge-7202 author: Nathaniel, Solomon; Nathaniel, Solomon title: Natural resource abundance and broad-based financial development nexus in ASEAN countries: accounting for globalization and human capital date: 2021 words: 7101 flesch: 49 summary: Therefore, human capital development should be top on the agenda of policymakers in ASEAN, especially when enacting policies that relate to financial sector development. Therefore, the current study is a maiden attempt to explore the nexus between FD and NR abundance amidst globalization, human capital, and economic growth in ASEAN economies. keywords: abundance; asean; capital; countries; development; economic; et al; globalization; growth; human; journal; nathaniel; resource cache: ejge-7202.pdf plain text: ejge-7202.txt item: #118 of 150 id: ejge-7366 author: Kuncoro, Haryo; Kuncoro, Haryo title: The role of automatic stabilizers in business cycle: the case of indonesia date: 2021 words: 7319 flesch: 48 summary: The a-cyclicality of fiscal policy leads to the presumption of the role of automatic fiscal stabilisers, while the procyclicality of fiscal policy further leads to the role of fiscal discretion, due to the fact that scholars found that there was no counter-cyclicality in fiscal policy (Baldacci, 2009; Akitoby et al., 2004). The procyclicality of fiscal policy tends to induce deficit bias which demands non-systematic discretionary fiscal policy instead of automatic fiscal stabilisers or systematic discretionary fiscal policy. keywords: balance; countries; economic; expenditure; gdp; government; indonesia; journal; output; policy; spending; stabilisers; tax cache: ejge-7366.pdf plain text: ejge-7366.txt item: #119 of 150 id: ejge-7385 author: Ahuja, Deepti; Pandit, Deepak; Ahuja, Deepti title: Social spending as a development tool: evidence from developing countries date: 2022 words: 9824 flesch: 45 summary: In this paper, we aim to study the interrelationship between social spending, economic growth, and income inequality in developing countries from the year 1990 to 2013. Introduction The increase in income inequality in recent years has drawn considerable attention from academic and policy experts on the relationship between economic growth and income inequality in both developed and developing countries. keywords: countries; economic; education; effects; european; expenditure; government; growth; health; impact; income inequality; inequality; journal; protection; results; spending; world cache: ejge-7385.pdf plain text: ejge-7385.txt item: #120 of 150 id: ejge-7444 author: Martin Palmero, Federico; Gonz´ález Laxe, Fernando; Martin Palmero, Federico title: The financialisation of the fishing industry: Galicia as a case study date: 2021 words: 6879 flesch: 48 summary: Diagram of Galician fishing companies according to their levels of ownership and scale of operations. Insofar as fishing resources are commercialised, fishing rights can be purchased, rented or disposed of in specially created markets. keywords: capital; companies; european; euros; financialisation; fisheries; fishing; gonzález; group; industry; international; journal; laxe; markets; production; rights; sector cache: ejge-7444.pdf plain text: ejge-7444.txt item: #121 of 150 id: ejge-7564 author: Najm, Najm; Abdul Azez, B. Alnidawy; Abdul Sattar. H. Yousif; Najm, Najm title: Corporate governance and organizational commitment: the mediating role of organizational culture date: 2022 words: 10743 flesch: 39 summary: Dignam, A. & Lowry, J. (2006), Corporate governance 1: corporate governance and corporate theory', Company Law, Core Text Series, New York: Oxford University Press. This study seeks to determine the impact of corporate governance dimensions (compliance with the corporate governance code, top management, control environment, transparency and disclosure, rights of shareholders and stakeholders) on the three main types of organizational commitment, (affective, continuance and normative). keywords: commitment; companies; company; culture; dimensions; economics; governance; governance code; governance dimensions; government; impact; journal; management; najm; results; stakeholders; study; transparency; vol cache: ejge-7564.pdf plain text: ejge-7564.txt item: #122 of 150 id: ejge-7803 author: Zídková, Hana; Balíková, Kristýna; Zídková, Hana title: The definitive VAT system and its impact on tax collection date: 2021 words: 8788 flesch: 50 summary: definitive VAT system, international trade statistics, VAT action plan, temporary VAT system, MTIC fraud JEL Codes. The purpose of the draft was the transformation of current VAT treatment applicable for intra-community supplies of goods between businesses (intra-community B2B supplies) to a new mechanism, so- called definitive VAT system. keywords: administration; community; costs; european; goods; intra; member; member states; mtic; states; supplies; system; tax; vat; vat system cache: ejge-7803.pdf plain text: ejge-7803.txt item: #123 of 150 id: ejge-7831 author: Yu, Woosik; Yu, Woosik title: Brain drain and economic growth: evidence of productivity growth from brain circulation date: 2021 words: 7130 flesch: 57 summary: We analyze panel data that measure the severity of brain drain, which are from IMD and the U.S. National Science Foundation. brain drain, brain circulation, economic growth, total factor productivity JEL Codes. keywords: brain; brain drain; countries; country; economic; european; gdp; government; growth; index; journal; productivity; u.s cache: ejge-7831.pdf plain text: ejge-7831.txt item: #124 of 150 id: ejge-7907 author: Bodea, Adrian; Bodea, Adrian title: Assessing the optimality of euro adoption in Romania through shock correlations date: 2021 words: 8287 flesch: 52 summary: Assessing the optimality of euro adoption in Romania through shock correlations Adrian Bodea a, b *1 a European Commission, Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs, Brussel, Belgium. OCAs meta property – shock correlations The studies cited above, although setting up the theoretical framework for the debate, lacked nevertheless the empirical dimension. keywords: bodea; countries; demand; economic; european; inflation; journal; lag; monetary; output; policy; romania; shocks; supply; trend cache: ejge-7907.pdf plain text: ejge-7907.txt item: #125 of 150 id: ejge-8198 author: Bashir, Rabi; Danlami, Abubakar title: Gender accessibility to credit among entrepreneurs: Empirical evidence from women entrepreneurs in Kano Metropolis date: 2022 words: 6533 flesch: 41 summary: The findings of the study revealed that high interest and collateral requirement prevent women entrepreneurs from accessing a loan from financial institutions, while religious affiliation is a major factor affecting women entrepreneurs' access to credit facilities. 3.4 Method of data analysis To examine how collateral requirements and interest rate affects women entrepreneurs' access to credit facilities in Kano Metropolis. keywords: access; credit; danlami; entrepreneurs; financial; institutions; interest; journal; kano; loans; study; women; women entrepreneurs cache: ejge-8198.pdf plain text: ejge-8198.txt item: #126 of 150 id: ejge-8601 author: Guerrero, Federico; Parker, Elliott; Parker, Elliott title: Immigration, ethnic fractionalization, and the fiscal burden in the OECD date: 2022 words: 10735 flesch: 51 summary: We do this through regressions for government expenditures and revenues that considers the impact of immigrant shares and ethnic fractionalization, and then calculating the implied marginal expenditures and revenues of an additional immigrant. Some studies argue that cross-section datasets are more appropriate for a study such as this because expenditure and immigrant shares change slowly over time (Mavisakalyan, 2011), while other studies argue that cross-sectional differences should be removed to better account for changes over time (Hopkins, 2009). keywords: capita; column; countries; country; economics; effects; european; expenditures; fractionalization; government; immigrants; immigration; journal; population; share; spending cache: ejge-8601.pdf plain text: ejge-8601.txt item: #127 of 150 id: ejge-8652 author: Villanthenkodath, Muhammed Ashiq; Mahalik, Mantu Kumar ; Villanthenkodath, Muhammed Ashiq title: Does real interest rate reduce income inequality in India? Evidence from multivariate framework analysis. date: 2022 words: 6779 flesch: 52 summary: European Journal of Government and Economics ISSN: 2254-7088 Does real interest rate reduce income inequality in India? This study empirically examines the impact of real interest rate on income inequality in India within a Kuznets Curve framework considering the role of economic growth, trade openness and technological innovation as the control variables. keywords: economic; government; growth; income; income inequality; india; inequality; interest; journal; mahalik; model; policy; rate; run; villanthenkodath cache: ejge-8652.pdf plain text: ejge-8652.txt item: #128 of 150 id: ejge-8758 author: Raifu, Isiaka Akande; Raifu, Isiaka Akande title: Effect of military spending on private investment in Nigeria: does a crowding-out effect exist? date: 2022 words: 10273 flesch: 55 summary: [7] In equation 7, ∆ is the first difference operator, 0α is a constant and drift component of the model, 1α to 4α are the long-run coefficient parameters which show the effects of lags of investment, unemployment, actual output growth rate and military spending investment. European Journal of Government and Economics ISSN: 2254-7088 Effect of military spending on private investment in Nigeria: does a crowding-out effect exist? keywords: countries; economics; effect; european; gdp; government; growth; investment; journal; military; model; nigeria; raifu; results; run; spending cache: ejge-8758.pdf plain text: ejge-8758.txt item: #129 of 150 id: ejge-8767 author: Correia-Domingues, Renato; Duran-Santomil, Pablo ; Otero-Gonzalez, Luis ; Domingues, Renato title: The explanatory power of expenses in the performance of eurozone mutual funds date: 2022 words: 7579 flesch: 66 summary: Based on the previous literature, our second research hypothesis is: H2: Mutual fund expenses have the power to predict future performance. https://www.morningstar.com/articles/347327/how-expense-ratios-and-star-ratings-predict-success https://www.morningstar.com/articles/347327/how-expense-ratios-and-star-ratings-predict-success https://www.morningstar.com/articles/752485/fund-fees-predict-future-success-or-failure https://www.morningstar.com/articles/752485/fund-fees-predict-future-success-or-failure Renato Correia-Domingues et al. / European Journal of Government and Economics 11(1), June 2022, 31-50 35 H3: Combining Morningstar star ratings with mutual funds expenses help understand the funds that outperform their benchmark. keywords: economics; european; expenses; funds; journal; morningstar; net; performance; ratings; regression; relationship; return; sharpe; stars; t-1; years cache: ejge-8767.pdf plain text: ejge-8767.txt item: #130 of 150 id: ejge-8925 author: Bertsatos, Gerassimos; Bertsatos, Gerasimos title: Determinants of bilateral current account balance between the Eurozone and the United States date: 2022 words: 11077 flesch: 54 summary: Also, the real interest rate (RIR) variable has the anticipated sign and positively affects CAB (0.486) in the long run; an upsurge in real interest rates reduces expenditure (investment & consumption) by increasing savings, and as a result, current account deficit decreases or current account surplus increases. 2. Literature review There is a growing literature on current account balance determinants since the 80s. keywords: account; account balance; balance; cab; countries; data; deficit; determinants; economics; european; exchange; exchange rate; gdp; government; journal; model; rate; run; trade cache: ejge-8925.pdf plain text: ejge-8925.txt item: #131 of 150 id: ejge-8951 author: Kam, Andrew Jia Yi; Oboh, Jerry Sankay; Othman, Zarina; Sufian, Jusoh; Oboh, Jerry title: The impact of gender inequality on economic growth: an explanatory sequential mixed methods study of female labour participation in the civil service date: 2022 words: 8712 flesch: 46 summary: Literature review A lot of emphasis on gender inequality has been attributed to culture, religion and other belief systems, which form the core of gender socialisation- a term where women and men are defined to fit certain roles in society. Qualitative studies by scholars in the radical feminist discipline argued that gender inequality is rooted in biological differences with a focus on procreation and sexuality, while liberal feminists ascribed the relegation of women to culture, lack of educational opportunities and legal constraints as the impediments to women’s success in the society (Enyew & Mihrete, 2018; Tong, 2014). keywords: economics; employment; factors; female; gender; gender inequality; government; growth; inequality; journal; labour; participation; service; study; women cache: ejge-8951.pdf plain text: ejge-8951.txt item: #132 of 150 id: ejge-8978 author: Núñez-Sánchez, José Manuel; Gómez-Chacón, Ramón; Jambrino-Maldonado, Carmen; García-Fernández, Jerónimo; García-Fernández, Jerónimo title: Can a corporate well-being programme maintain the strengths of the healthy employee in times of COVID-19 and extensive remote working? An empirical case study. date: 2022 words: 10913 flesch: 49 summary: Healthy organisations are integrated by healthy employees who have psycho-social strengths such as engagement, resilience, self-efficacy, optimism and hope (Salanova et al., 2012). Physical activity enhances self-efficacy with employees being less stressed at work (Salanova et al., 2005), more motivated (Vera et al., 2014), improving their health, job satisfaction and performance (Luthans et al., 2007). keywords: activity; company; covid-19; employee; engagement; et al; european; health; journal; pandemic; programme; research; resilience; self; strengths; study; sánchez; times; work cache: ejge-8978.pdf plain text: ejge-8978.txt item: #133 of 150 id: ejge-9004 author: Wibisono, Eristian; Wibisono, Eristian title: Multilevel governance and Smart Specialization in EU regions: an evidence-based critical review date: 2022 words: 7773 flesch: 38 summary: Using an evidence-based critical review approach, key literature that draws on three critical concepts is explored: multilevel governance, regional innovation policy, and Smart Specialization in various governance conditions and diverse regional resources. multilevel governance, regional innovation policy, Smart Specialization, European Union. keywords: european; governance; government; innovation; innovation policy; journal; levels; multilevel; policies; policy; process; regions; specialization cache: ejge-9004.pdf plain text: ejge-9004.txt item: #134 of 150 id: ejge-9146 author: Trofimov, Ivan D; Trofimov, Ivan D title: Wagner’s hypothesis in Europe: a causality analysis with disaggregated data date: 2023 words: 14193 flesch: 58 summary: As indicated in Table 7 in the Appendix, the inclusion of the dummy variable did not alter the results substantially, with bi-directional causality replacing Wagner hypothesis causality in few categories (specifications) and vice versa. Public expenditure growth in Greece and Portugal: Wagner's law and beyond. keywords: causality; d(g; d(y; economics; european; expenditure; gdp; government; growth; hypothesis; ivan; journal; june; lag; law; output; panel; specification; test; trofimov; value; wagner cache: ejge-9146.pdf plain text: ejge-9146.txt item: #135 of 150 id: ejge-9147 author: Sánchez-Santos, José Manuel; Benedetto, Giacomo title: Editorial Statement: Ten years of life of EJGE date: 2022 words: 738 flesch: 52 summary: academic journal, economics, indexing, open access, political science. European Journal of Government and Economics ISSN: 2254-7088 Editorial statement: ten years of life of EJGE José Manuel Sánchez Santos a, Giacomo Benedetto b a Universidade da Coruña, Spain b Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom Abstract. keywords: economics; journal cache: ejge-9147.pdf plain text: ejge-9147.txt item: #136 of 150 id: ejge-9283 author: Parsons, Brandon; Naghshpour , Shahdad; Parsons, Dr. Brandon title: Panel data analysis of internal conflict and income inequality date: 2023 words: 8526 flesch: 52 summary: The study determines how worsening internal and external conflict affects income inequality. Worsening internal conflict increases income inequality in developing countries but not in developed countries. keywords: conflict; countries; country; data; economic; effects; european; gini; government; growth; income; income inequality; inequality; journal; panel; risk; war cache: ejge-9283.pdf plain text: ejge-9283.txt item: #137 of 150 id: ejge-9335 author: Ion, Oana Andreea; Ion, Oana Andreea title: Assessing the fairness of the EU Council qualified majority voting. A voting power critical perspective of the liberal intergovernmentalist accounts date: 2023 words: 9737 flesch: 48 summary: Their role is extremely important as the inequalities in the distribution of voting power are disturbing both agenda-setting and decision outcomes in favour of the actors with great voting power. EU Council; input and output legitimacy; qualified majority voting; rational choice; voting power. keywords: council; decision; distribution; european; european union; journal; majority; member; power; states; system; union; votes; voting; voting power cache: ejge-9335.pdf plain text: ejge-9335.txt item: #138 of 150 id: ejge-9345 author: Del Campo Villares, Manuel Octavio; Ferreiro Seoane, Francisco Jesús ; Jardón Ferreiro, Eladio; Molina Picazo, Miguel; Del Campo Villares, Manuel Octavio title: Territorial diagnostics and citizen perception of municipal public management, towards an efficient reform of Local Administration date: 2023 words: 8262 flesch: 37 summary: For this reason, the contribution of the work is located in the elaboration of an automatic and objective comprehensive scorecard (CMI) that allows us to know the efficiency in the management of municipal public services. This situation generates a financial and functional incapacity to guarantee the successful and efficient provision of local public services. keywords: administration; campo; del; economics; european; government; journal; local; management; municipal; population; provision; public; services; structure cache: ejge-9345.pdf plain text: ejge-9345.txt item: #139 of 150 id: ejge-9541 author: Hawley, Adrian; Hawley, Adrian John title: Reviving Social Europe: a critical assessment of EU social policy in the wake of multiple crises date: 2023 words: 6895 flesch: 48 summary: Secondly, I define what is referred to in these documents as ‘social Europe’, an eye-catching shorthand for EU social policy. Reviving Social Europe: a critical assessment of EU social policy in the wake of multiple crises keywords: commission; council; crises; economy; epsr; europe; european; platform; policy; protection; rrf; social cache: ejge-9541.pdf plain text: ejge-9541.txt item: #140 of 150 id: ejge-9595 author: Sande Veiga, Diego; SANDE VEIGA, DIEGO title: Unveiling the impact of European Structural Funds for innovation in Andalusia, Spain date: 2024 words: 8078 flesch: 42 summary: Keywords: policy evaluation; business innovation policies; structural funds; business performance; employment; regional development. The article is structured as follows: the second section reviews the importance of innovation policies, as well as the promotion of business development in peripheral and technologically backward territories. keywords: analysis; andalusia; business; companies; data; development; european; funds; impact; indicators; innovation; innterconecta; policies; policy; projects; regional; regions; research; results; sande cache: ejge-9595.pdf plain text: ejge-9595.txt item: #141 of 150 id: ejge-9600 author: Sahiti, Fadil; Sahiti, Fadil title: Unleashing entrepreneurial potential in transition economies: a comparative analysis of the impact of macro and micro policies date: 2023 words: 8850 flesch: 42 summary: Findings reveal that while transition economies often adopt entrepreneurship policies similar to developed nations, some remain country-specific. Unleashing entrepreneurial potential in transition economies: a comparative analysis of the impact of macro and micro policies © The Author(s) 2023. keywords: bank; business; countries; data; development; economic; economies; economy; entrepreneurship; firms; kosovo; market; new; paper; policies; survival; transition; transition economies; world cache: ejge-9600.pdf plain text: ejge-9600.txt item: #142 of 150 id: ejge-9773 author: Kappler, Moritz; Schomaker, Rahel; Bauer, Michael; Schomaker, Rahel title: Public-private partnerships caught in a trust-trap and the potential role of information: the burden of divergent rationales date: 2024 words: 11290 flesch: 45 summary: In general, evidence was found supporting H1 and H2, since the median trust level score was statistically significantly lower (i.e. also different) for public sector respondents (3.5) than for private sector respondents (4.0), U=604, z=-2.032, p=.042.9 In addition, cautiously confirming sectoral belonging as partly explaining trust in PPPs, scrutinizing group difference of post-test trust levels based on sectoral belonging, excluding different interventions for now, confirms both trust differences within PPPs and relatively lower values for the public partner (with a median of 3.0 for public sector respondents and 3.5 for private ones, though becoming insignificant, U=609, z=-1.887, p=.059.10 Summarized in Figure 4, evidence found (stronger in the case of pre-test trust levels) supports the notion of PPP’s internal heterogeneity and the low(er) public trust levels. However, the effect of the information treatment on trust levels is limited. keywords: bauer; experience; information; intervention; management; partner; partnerships; potential; ppps; public; rationales; relationship; role; schomaker; sector; test; trap; trust; trust levels cache: ejge-9773.pdf plain text: ejge-9773.txt item: #143 of 150 id: ejge-9788 author: Anaba, Merith Ifeoma; R. Alaganthiran, Jayanthi; Gold, Kafilah Lola; Obasuyi, Folorunso Obayemi Tamitope; Anaba, Merith title: Tourism, growth, and carbon emissions in Sub-Saharan Africa: a balancing act date: 2024 words: 8637 flesch: 45 summary: Keywords: tourism revenues; carbon dioxide emissions; economic growth; trade openness; Sub-Saharan Africa JEL classification : Z330, Q540, O4, F100, O55 1. Also, globally, evidence shows that the tourism industry remains one of the most important contributors of carbon dioxide emissions to the environment (Chen, Thapa, & Yan, 2018; Jong, Soh, & Puah, 2022). keywords: africa; carbon; carbon dioxide; co2; consumption; countries; dioxide; dioxide emissions; emissions; energy; environmental; et al; growth; pollution; revenue; ssa; study; tourism cache: ejge-9788.pdf plain text: ejge-9788.txt item: #144 of 150 id: ejge-9850 author: Chen, Jun; Yerzhanov, Talgat ; Shcheglova, Svetlana ; Mirzayev, Anar ; Chen, Jun title: Assessing privatization efficiency in CIS countries: financial, non-financial, and GDP-linked indicators date: 2023 words: 8384 flesch: 42 summary: Assessing privatization efficiency in CIS countries Nevertheless, there is also a positive experience of privatization. Privatization in Armenia was launched in 1991 with small-scale privatization, Assessing privatization efficiency in CIS countries that is, entities of low value were transferred to private ownership. keywords: cis; countries; country; efficiency; enterprises; gdp; government; growth; impact; model; privatization; spending; state; study cache: ejge-9850.pdf plain text: ejge-9850.txt item: #145 of 150 id: ejge-9902 author: Dokuzoğlu, Sevi; Güzel, Arif Eser; dokuzoğlu, sevi title: Democracy, governance, and environmental policy effectiveness: a cross-country analysis with Sustainable Governance Indicators date: 2024 words: 7742 flesch: 39 summary: The effectiveness of environmental policies has been extensively studied, often focusing solely on environmental degradation indicators. In this paper, we show how democracy and the quality of governments affect the success of environmental policies. keywords: corruption; democracy; economics; effectiveness; effects; energy; environmental; governance; government; index; indicators; level; performance; policies; policy; population; quality; results cache: ejge-9902.pdf plain text: ejge-9902.txt item: #146 of 150 id: ejge-9909 author: Morina, Fisnik; Misiri, Valdrin; Gashi, Fitore; Misiri, Valdrin title: Long-term relationship between investment and economic growth: a cointegration analysis of OECD countries date: 2023 words: 9167 flesch: 52 summary: Long-term relationship between investment and economic growth Therefore, when investments by sector with a dynamic time lag (1) increase by 1 unit, the value of economic growth volatility will increase by 0.767 units. In the absence of adequate domestic investment, FDI has been withdrawn from industrially advanced countries to accelerate the path of industrialization, Long-term relationship between investment and economic growth promote and maintain sustainable economic growth, and reduce unemployment. keywords: analysis; capital; causality; countries; fdi; gdp; growth; impact; investments; oecd; relationship; results; term; value; variables cache: ejge-9909.pdf plain text: ejge-9909.txt item: #147 of 150 id: ejge-9918 author: Danish, Muhammad Hassan; Ashfaq, Muhammad; Azam Joiya, Salman; Danish, Muhammad Hassan title: Impact of government quality on post-COVID subjective well-being in Pakistan: the mediating role of financial stress date: 2024 words: 8531 flesch: 53 summary: Published: June 6, 2024 Article Impact of government quality on post-COVID subjective well-being in Pakistan: the mediating role of financial stress Muhammad Hassan Danish1,2, *, Muhammad Ashfaq3, Salman Azam Joiya4 1 University of Management and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan 2 Research Fellow at Department of Economics, University of Religions and Denominations, Qom, 37491- 13357, Iran 3 IU International University of Applied Sciences, Germany 4 Lahore Business School, The University of Lahore, Pakistan *Correspondence: hassan.danish@umt.edu.pk Abstract. The present study is also designed to analyze the impact of government quality on subjective well-being (SWB) after the pandemic through the mediating role of financial stress. keywords: covid-19; economic; government; happiness; health; impact; level; model; pakistan; pandemic; people; quality; stress; study cache: ejge-9918.pdf plain text: ejge-9918.txt item: #148 of 150 id: ejge-9940 author: Hasíková, Iva; Hasíková, Iva title: Exploring determinants of VAT gaps using structural equation models: a MIMIC approach date: 2024 words: 6740 flesch: 48 summary: Exploring determinants of VAT gaps using structural equation models: a MIMIC approach Iva Hasíková 1,* 1 Mendel University, Czechia *Correspondence: xhasikov@mendelu.cz Keywords: VAT gap; determinants of VAT gap; efficiency of VAT collection; MIMIC model; structural equation model JEL classification: C39 ; C51 ; H26 1. Introduction Value-added tax (VAT) is one of the most significant sources of tax revenue in most European countries. keywords: economic; economy; gap; gdp; government; index; mimic; model; tax; value; variable; vat; vat gap cache: ejge-9940.pdf plain text: ejge-9940.txt item: #149 of 150 id: ejge-9953 author: Cardona-Arenas, Carlos David; Campuzano, Johary Andrea; cardona, carlos david title: Exploring citizen participation in fiscal control: insights from Manizales, Colombia date: 2024 words: 12614 flesch: 40 summary: Conclusions Current research in the field of citizen fiscal participation primarily focuses on the factors that explain citizens' involvement in budgetary processes. The objective of this study is to identify the fundamental determinants of citizen participation within the framework of the Let's Take Control initiative, implemented by the General Comptroller's Office of Manizales Municipality during 2020-2021, with a specific focus on fostering public participation in Fiscal Control. keywords: activities; citizen participation; citizens; comptroller; comptroller general; control; events; fiscal; general; information; let; level; management; manizales; model; municipality; office; participatory; public; research; social; strategy; stratum; study; table; times; variables cache: ejge-9953.pdf plain text: ejge-9953.txt item: #150 of 150 id: ejge-9960 author: Abdelkafi, Ines; Ben Romdhane, Youssra; Loukil, Sahar; ABDELKAFI, Ines title: Has COVID-19 changed the correlation between cryptocurrencies and stock markets? date: 2023 words: 7979 flesch: 56 summary: Specifically, we use the VAR model to understand the relationship between crypto-currencies and stock market returns before and during the COVID-19 period. On the other hand, the reaction of stock market returns to the bitcoin shock is not very significant. keywords: bitcoin; covid-19; cryptocurrencies; et al; finance; financial; gold; index; indices; lnbitcoin; markets; oil; pandemic; results; stock; table; varbasic cache: ejge-9960.pdf plain text: ejge-9960.txt