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Centres and peripheries in Finland: Granger causality tests using panel data
2009
Abstract Despite their importance from a policy point of view, empirical studies on the effects of growth centres in their regions are rare. This paper analyses mutual relationships between growth processes in centres and their surrounding hinterlands in 19 Finnish regions. Annual population data from the period 1970–2004 are used. A novel testing procedure based on an extension of the Granger causality definition in a panel data context is applied. Heterogeneity between regions is allowed. Both the homogeneous non-causality hypothesis and the homogeneous causality hypothesis are rejected. Causal processes prove to be heterogeneous. Causality from centres to peripheries is found for nine re…
Fringed Life Satisfaction? A Life-Course Perspective on the Impact of International Migration on Subjective Well-Being
2018
This chapter investigates the role of personal life events in changing levels of life satisfaction and tries to contrast migrants to native population in this respect. Marriage, divorce, separation, widowhood, and having children are considered as potential triggers for differential transformations of migrant lives as compared to non-migrant. The main assumption relies on the increased uncertainty and destandardization of migrant life course, given their spatial mobility that disrupts stages of traditional life cycle. The findings from the panel data obtained from German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP; Germany), collected during more than three decades, reveal higher sensitivity of migrants to…
Friends and Foes: How Coalition Formats Shape Voters’ Perceptions of the Party System
2020
This study looks at the effect of coalitions between parties on how similar citizens perceive the parties that participate in these coalitions to be. We build on different strands of literature to argue that citizens use information on which parties coalesce with each other as a heuristic to make judgments about the similarity of these parties, and that partisan identifiers of the parties in question should be especially sensitive to this signal. We test these claims using panel survey data from the German state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, collected between 2011 and 2016, a phase in which the party system went through profound changes in government composition, especially with the Green-Christia…
Great Recession and club convergence in Europe: A cross‐country, cross‐region panel analysis (2000–2015)
2020
The paper aims at investigating the impact of the Great Recession on per capita GDP convergence process across European regions and countries. Using the time-varying factor model developed by Phillips and Sul for the period 2000–2015 and two different merging procedures to identify clubs, we provide evidence of the diverging impact of the Great Recession “between” the higher and the lower convergence clubs at both regional and country levels as well as of the strengthening of the convergence process “within” most clubs. In addition, we add further evidence to the common belief of a “multi-speed” Europe by contrasting Eastern European countries' and regions' behavior vis-à-vis original Europ…
The globalisation divide in the public mind: belief systems on globalisation and their electoral consequences
2019
Many studies describe how globalisation—the global integration of the economic, political, and cultural domains of society—transforms party competition in Western Europe. At the citizen level, however, our knowledge about globalisation attitudes and their electoral consequences remains limited. Using data from a large-scale panel survey of the German public, we show that, first, citizens hold stable rather than fluid attitudes towards the concept of globalisation. Second, these attitudes are rather closely related to positions on specific economic, cultural, and political issues that social scientists understand as facets of globalisation but unrelated to positions on traditional redistribu…
Organized crime and public spending: a panel data analysis
2018
The aim of this paper is to investigate, empirically, what components of public spending imply a decreasing effect on organized crime and what components create opportunities for organized crime, discussing also the role of government efficiency. Using a panel data analysis, the results show a strikingly consistent pattern for the EU Member States. Organized crime mainly operates in the distribution of government spending for local public goods and public provision of private services. There is a decreasing effect on organized crime of the public expenditure devoted to education and social policy. Government efficiency in public spending is beneficial to limit the opportunities of the organ…
14th International HLA and Immunogenetics Workshop: Report on the Prospective Chronic Rejection Project
2007
An international collaborative study of 45 transplant centers was undertaken at the 14th International HLA (human leukocyte antigen) and Immunogenetics Workshop to see if HLA antibodies detected posttransplant are predictive of chronic graft failure. With the newly developed assay, MICA (major histocompatibility complex class I-related chain A) antibodies were also measured and their effect analyzed. Total of 5219 sera from patients who were more than 6 months posttransplant with functioning graft were tested for HLA antibodies by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, flow cytometry, or Luminex. HLA antibodies were found in 27.2% of kidney patients, 23.6% in the liver, 52.7% in the heart, and …
La valorizzazione della pasta e del pane di grano duro siciliano attraverso la certificazione di prodotto e la definizione di uno specifico accordo d…
2011
Al fine di creare le premesse per la valorizzazione del grano duro prodotto in Sicilia, l’Assessorato Regionale delle Risorse Agricole e Alimentari ed il Consorzio di Ricerca “Gian Pietro Ballatore”, alla fine del 2009, hanno attivato il progetto pilota “Implementazione di un sistema di certificazione per la Pasta e Pane di Grano duro Siciliano”. L’obiettivo generale è la valorizzazione della filiera regionale del grano duro attraverso la certificazione della qualità tecnologica ed igienico sanitaria delle produzioni regionali di pasta e pane. Sono stati definiti specifici disciplinari di produzione che garantiscono la tracciabilità e l’origine siciliana del frumento utilizzato, l’adeguato …
Hotel chain performance: a gravity-DEA approach
2011
Performance in business management can be measured in terms of competitiveness and efficiency. Generally speaking, competitiveness is a comparative concept of the ability of a firm, sub-sector or country to sell and supply goods and/or services in a given market, as measured by its market share. Particularly in competitive markets, efficiency plays a key role in determining this ability but it is not, by itself, sufficient. Indeed, while competitiveness has more to do with “pursuing the correct strategy” towards the conservation and/or increase of the market share, operational efficiency is mainly a measure of how well the firm, sub-sector or country under study processes inputs to achieve …
The euro impact on trade. Long run evidence with structural breaks
2012
In this paper we present new evidence on the euro effect on trade. We use a data set containing all bilateral combinations in a panel of 26 OECD countries during the period 1967-2008. From a methodological point of view, we implement a new generation of tests that allow solving some of the problems derived from the non-stationary nature of the data. To this aim we apply panel tests that account for the presence of cross-section dependence as well as discontinuities in the non-stationary panel data. We test for cointegration between the variables using panel cointegration tests, especially the ones proposed by Banerjee and Carrióni- Silvestre (2010). We also efficiently estimate the long-run…