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The Infancy of the Esports Industry as a Risk to its Sponsors 电子竞技产业的起步对其赞助商来说是一个风险

Scientific Annals of Economics and Business Pub Date : 2023-09-18 DOI: 10.47743/saeb-2023-0030

Bruno Duarte Abreu Freitas

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The Economic Impact of the LEADER Program in the Rural Communities of Romania 罗马尼亚农村社区LEADER项目的经济影响

Scientific Annals of Economics and Business Pub Date : 2023-06-29 DOI: 10.47743/saeb-2023-0026

Ana-Maria Opria, Lucian Roșu, Corneliu Iațu

{"title":"The Economic Impact of the LEADER Program in the Rural Communities of Romania","authors":"Ana-Maria Opria, Lucian Roșu, Corneliu Iațu","doi":"10.47743/saeb-2023-0026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47743/saeb-2023-0026","url":null,"abstract":"The sustainable development of rural areas is one of the European Union’s objectives. LEADER program contributes to its fulfillment by offering financial support to disadvantaged rural areas. The purpose of this paper is to assess the LEADER program’s economic impact in the Romanian rural communities. Econometric methods of impact assessment were used to analyze the evolution of economic indicators in the beneficiary communities. Propensity Score Matching and Difference in Differences were the methods applied in order to meet the objectives of the paper: analysis of the spatial distribution of projects submitted and funds allocated to LAGs (1), and of the economic evolution of LAG and non-LAG communities, before and after LEADER funding (2). The results indicate a stronger economic growth for the beneficiary rural communities, confirming in all cases the initial hypothesis. LEADER seems to have acted in these directions: the creation of new jobs and increasing the local businesses performance. However, the contribution made was minimal and insignificant. Conclusions of the study highlight that the contribution of the LEADER program to the economic development of rural communities can be at most one of supporting the current level of development, but not of reaching a much higher level. LEADER can be considered, from a quantitative point of view, only an instrument with a positive effect on rural areas, but not an instrument of impact. This is because LEADER did not bring significant changes and didn’t ensure that critical mass that could trigger the economic development of rural communities.","PeriodicalId":43189,"journal":{"name":"Scientific Annals of Economics and Business","volume":"83 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135155440","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Pretending to be Socially Responsible? The Role of Consumers’ Rewarding Behaviour 假装对社会负责？消费者奖励行为的作用

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Scientific Annals of Economics and Business Pub Date : 2023-06-27 DOI: 10.47743/saeb-2023-0024

Margarida Catalão‐Lopes, Joaquim P. Pina, Ana S. Costa

{"title":"Pretending to be Socially Responsible? The Role of Consumers’ Rewarding Behaviour","authors":"Margarida Catalão‐Lopes, Joaquim P. Pina, Ana S. Costa","doi":"10.47743/saeb-2023-0024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47743/saeb-2023-0024","url":null,"abstract":"Extant evidence on corporate social responsibility (CSR) shows that consumers are willing to pay a premium if they infer that the firm is truly \"prosocial\" (i.e if it is altruistic), but their valuation of the product will not increase as much (and may even decrease) if they believe the company has an ulterior motive for CSR (i.e. if the firm is opportunistic). We pose that the CSR level of investment can be strategically used as a signalling tool to help consumers identify the true nature of the firm and solve this incomplete information problem. Using a signalling game, where altruistic firms want to express their nature and opportunistic ones want to conceal it, we explore the relative effectiveness of consumers’ premiums and penalties (expressed as demand increases or decreases, respectively) in the promotion of corporate truth-revealing behaviour. We also characterize the conditions for market equilibria in which altruistic firms are distinguished from opportunistic ones, allowing consumers to solve the information asymmetry and, with that, influence firms’ profits. Contrary to what might be expected, we show that rewards for altruistic CSR and penalties for opportunistic CSR are not symmetrically effective. Our results help companies to improve their CSR decisions, by understanding how consumers solve the information asymmetry regarding the true nature of the CSR investments. Especially for altruistic firms, this may be important to guarantee that CSR effort and expenses are not just a cost but turn into higher revenues and profits.","PeriodicalId":43189,"journal":{"name":"Scientific Annals of Economics and Business","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47940672","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The Effectiveness of the Huber's Weight on Dispersion and Tuning Constant: A Simulation Study Huber权重对色散和调谐常数影响的仿真研究

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Scientific Annals of Economics and Business Pub Date : 2023-06-20 DOI: 10.47743/saeb-2023-0022

Intan Martina Md Ghani, Hanafi A Rahim

{"title":"The Effectiveness of the Huber's Weight on Dispersion and Tuning Constant: A Simulation Study","authors":"Intan Martina Md Ghani, Hanafi A Rahim","doi":"10.47743/saeb-2023-0022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47743/saeb-2023-0022","url":null,"abstract":"Dispersion measurement and tuning constants are critical aspects of a model's robustness and efficiency. However, in the presence of outliers, the standard deviation is not a reliable measure of dispersion in Huber's weight. This research aimed to assess the efficacy of the Huber weight function in terms of dispersion measurement and tuning constant. The simulation study was conducted on a hybrid of the autoregressive (AR) model and the generalized autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity (GARCH) model with 10% and 20% additive outlier contamination. In the simulation analysis, three dispersion measurements were compared: median absolute deviation (MAD), interquartile range (IQR), and IQR/3, with two tuning constant values (1.345 and 1.5). The numerical simulation results showed that during contamination with 10% and 20% additive outliers, the IQR/3 outperformed the MAD and IQR. Our findings also showed that IQR/3 is a potentially more robust dispersion measurement in Huber's weight. The tuning constant of 1.5 revealed a decrease in resistance to outliers and increased efficiency. The proposed IQR/3 model with a constant tuning value (h) of 1.5 outperformed the AR(1)-GARCH(1,2) model while minimising the effect of additive outliers.","PeriodicalId":43189,"journal":{"name":"Scientific Annals of Economics and Business","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47354174","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Do Tax Rates Matter for Entrepreneurial Motivations? An Empirical Approach 税率对创业动机有影响吗?实证方法

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Scientific Annals of Economics and Business Pub Date : 2023-06-20 DOI: 10.47743/saeb-2023-0025

V. Rusu, A. Dornean

{"title":"Do Tax Rates Matter for Entrepreneurial Motivations? An Empirical Approach","authors":"V. Rusu, A. Dornean","doi":"10.47743/saeb-2023-0025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47743/saeb-2023-0025","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000There are a number of factors that can hinder the path of entrepreneurship development and the literature highlighted the fact that taxes are one of the most important barriers for entrepreneurs. This paper aims at identifying the relationship between tax rates and entrepreneurship and to establish the impact of tax rates on entrepreneurs considering their motivations (necessity, opportunity or improvement-driven opportunity). The research focuses on a sample of 46 countries grouped according to their income level, for a period of eight years (2012-2019). In order to test our hypotheses, we use multiple linear regression based on balanced panel data and we consider, as dependent variables, indicators that measure entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial motivations (early-stage entrepreneurial activity, necessity-driven entrepreneurs, opportunity-driven entrepreneurs, improvement-driven opportunity entrepreneurs, and motivational index). As independent variables, we consider indicators that measure the tax rates supported by entrepreneurs (total tax and contribution rate, profit tax, labor tax and contributions, and other taxes payable by businesses). The results show that tax rates play a key role in fostering the creation of new companies. Moreover, the impact is different, depending on the entrepreneurs’ motivations. Entrepreneurs motivated by necessity are positively related to total tax and contribution rate, while those motivated by opportunity are negatively related with this indicator. Therefore, tax rates discourage the entrepreneurs that seek innovation, but they do not affect those that do not have other options to obtain the necessary income for living.\u0000","PeriodicalId":43189,"journal":{"name":"Scientific Annals of Economics and Business","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42648384","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Internet Adoption, Digital Divide, and Corruption: Evidence from ECOWAS Countries 互联网采用、数字鸿沟和腐败：来自西非经共体国家的证据

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Scientific Annals of Economics and Business Pub Date : 2023-06-19 DOI: 10.47743/saeb-2023-0023

Driss Tsouli

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Investigating the Nexus Between Militarization and Inflation in Turkey 土耳其军事化与通货膨胀的关系研究

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Scientific Annals of Economics and Business Pub Date : 2023-06-13 DOI: 10.47743/saeb-2023-0020

Olcay Çolak, Sevilay E G Özuyar, Duran Bülbül

{"title":"Investigating the Nexus Between Militarization and Inflation in Turkey","authors":"Olcay Çolak, Sevilay E G Özuyar, Duran Bülbül","doi":"10.47743/saeb-2023-0020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47743/saeb-2023-0020","url":null,"abstract":"The importance of military expenditure in terms of establishing national security constitutes the main excuse for public expenditures made by states in this field. Yet, a special importance should be attached to military expenditure in terms of ensuring the efficiency of the public sectors of developing countries and rational use of resources. In fact, there is no consensus about the effect of these types of expenditures on the economy in general or the trade-offs they cause. Therefore, their effects on major macroeconomic variables and efficiency in resource allocation, production, and distribution deserve to be comprehensively addressed. To this end, this study aims to investigate the long- term effect of militarization on inflation in Turkey. By incorporating the annual data from the period 1970 to 2020 and employing the combined approach to cointegration suggested by Bayer and Hanck (2013), the presence of long-term interplay between militarization and inflation can be analyzed. After detecting the presence of cointegration, the findings of the long run model reveal that inflation is spurred by military expenditure and arms imports besides the other determinants of inflation.","PeriodicalId":43189,"journal":{"name":"Scientific Annals of Economics and Business","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44034345","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Interconnections between Minister Cabinets in Greece. A Bicentennial Study with Implications on Economy 希腊内阁部长之间的相互联系。对经济产生影响的两百年研究

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Scientific Annals of Economics and Business Pub Date : 2023-05-31 DOI: 10.47743/saeb-2023-0019

Dimitrios Kydros, P. Polychronidou

{"title":"Interconnections between Minister Cabinets in Greece. A Bicentennial Study with Implications on Economy","authors":"Dimitrios Kydros, P. Polychronidou","doi":"10.47743/saeb-2023-0019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47743/saeb-2023-0019","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we deal with a network analysis of interconnected cabinets in Greece for an extended time period. In parallel, we present a small review of the economic crises that have occurred in Greece over this period. More particularly, we used historical sources to locate all different Greek governments and all economic crises starting from the 1821 Greek revolution to the present days. We also formed a two-mode (also known as affiliation) network of ministers and cabinets and subsequently created a network of interconnected cabinets. We used dedicated software to visualize this network and used Social Network Analytical procedures in order to calculate its properties. Finally, in an attempt to investigate possible relations between network metrics and economic crises, we note and discuss an interesting observation between a specific metrics and such major economic events. In our paper, we firstly introduce the context and present our research questions. We then present the relevant literature, mainly discussing the extent to which Social Network Analysis has been used to investigate patterns of behaviors in politics. We then proceed to presenting and applying our methodology on network creation, visualization and metrics computations. The following section discusses the longitudinal evolution of our network and the relation between its clustering coefficient and the emergence of economic crises. We then finalize our paper with some conclusions.","PeriodicalId":43189,"journal":{"name":"Scientific Annals of Economics and Business","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47332770","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Globalization and Per Capita Income Growth in Emerging Economies 全球化与新兴经济体人均收入增长

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Scientific Annals of Economics and Business Pub Date : 2023-03-21 DOI: 10.47743/saeb-2023-0007

U. Effiong

{"title":"Globalization and Per Capita Income Growth in Emerging Economies","authors":"U. Effiong","doi":"10.47743/saeb-2023-0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47743/saeb-2023-0007","url":null,"abstract":"In this study, the efficacy of globalization in influencing income growth within the Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) from 1982 to 2020 is being examined. The “Konjunkturforschungsstelle Globalization Index” (KOFGI) was used to measure globalization at the overall, economic, social, and political level, while income growth was captured using the growth rate of gross national income per capita. The data employed in the analysis were gotten from World Bank and KOFGI database. The analysis follows a sequential order of unit root test based on the augmented Dickey-Fuller, autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) bounds test for cointegration, and error correction model. The unit root test revealed that the order of integration of the variables were mixed at levels and first difference. The bounds test showcased that all the dimensions of globalization exhibited long-run association with income growth. The short-run result indicated that globalization wielded a negative and significant effect on income growth. A unit percent increase in globalization put forth a 1.3818% decrease in income growth. In the long-run, globalization however exerted a positive but insignificant sway on income growth in the SSA. The implication of this is that though globalization poses a short-run negative impact on income growth, the SSA can move along the learning curve to derive some long-term benefits that emanate from global interactions. It becomes pertinent for the SSA to see globalization as a long-term avenue for propelling income growth, bearing in mind that the short-run negative effect can be corrected periodically as the economy moves along the learning curve of globalization.","PeriodicalId":43189,"journal":{"name":"Scientific Annals of Economics and Business","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47906351","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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How to Analyze the Association between Two Categorical Variables Based on Census Data with a High Level of Nonresponse 如何基于高水平无应答的人口普查数据分析两个类别变量之间的关联

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Scientific Annals of Economics and Business Pub Date : 2023-03-21 DOI: 10.47743/saeb-2023-0009

Milan Terek, E. Muchová, P. Leško

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