{"title":"Export Diversification in the Gulf: The Kuwait Experience","authors":"A. Kalaitzi, T. Chamberlain","doi":"10.1007/s11294-021-09825-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11294-021-09825-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45656,"journal":{"name":"International Advances in Economic Research","volume":"27 1","pages":"147 - 149"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s11294-021-09825-4","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44383565","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}
{"title":"Human Capital Expansion and Aggregate Productivity Dynamic: Evidence from China","authors":"Weng Yue","doi":"10.1007/s11294-021-09827-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11294-021-09827-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45656,"journal":{"name":"International Advances in Economic Research","volume":"27 1","pages":"155 - 157"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s11294-021-09827-2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43351887","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}
J. F. Larios-Meoño, Benoît Mougenot, V. J. Álvarez-Quiroz
{"title":"Short-Run and Long-Run Effects of Copper Mining on Peru’s Recent Economic Growth","authors":"J. F. Larios-Meoño, Benoît Mougenot, V. J. Álvarez-Quiroz","doi":"10.1007/s11294-021-09821-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11294-021-09821-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45656,"journal":{"name":"International Advances in Economic Research","volume":"27 1","pages":"131 - 145"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s11294-021-09821-8","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45674741","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}
Anetta Caplanova, Rudolf Sivak, Estera Szakadatova
{"title":"Institutional Trust and Compliance with Measures to Fight COVID-19","authors":"Anetta Caplanova, Rudolf Sivak, Estera Szakadatova","doi":"10.1007/s11294-021-09818-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11294-021-09818-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The paper investigates the causal relationship between the trust in institutions and compliance with measures introduced to slow down the spread of the novel coronavirus COVID-19 in Slovakia. In addition, the impact of socio-economic characteristics on compliance with introduced measures was analysed. Data were obtained from a survey carried out by the Slovak Academy of Sciences on a representative sample of the Slovak population of 1,000 respondents. To derive the causal relationship between institutional trust and compliance behaviour, a probit regression model was used. Findings suggest that trust in public institutions helps to increase compliance with social distancing. In addition, some socio-economic characteristics such as employment status, age or whether individuals felt endangered by COVID-19 had a positive and statistically significant effect on compliance with measures used to slow the spread of the COVID-19 virus. Institutional trust did not have a statistically significant effect on compliance with face-covering measures.</p>","PeriodicalId":45656,"journal":{"name":"International Advances in Economic Research","volume":"38 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138518202","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}
{"title":"An Introduction to Machine Learning for Panel Data","authors":"James Ming Chen","doi":"10.1007/s11294-021-09815-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11294-021-09815-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Machine learning has dramatically expanded the range of tools for evaluating economic panel data. This paper applies a variety of machine-learning methods to the Boston housing dataset, an iconic proving ground for machine learning. Though machine learning often lacks the overt interpretability of linear regression, methods based on decision trees score the relative importance of dataset features. In addition to addressing the theoretical tradeoff between bias and variance, this paper discusses practices rarely followed in traditional economics: the splitting of data into training, validation, and test sets; the scaling of data; and the preference for retaining all data. The choice between traditional and machine-learning methods hinges on practical rather than mathematical considerations. In settings emphasizing interpretative clarity through the scale and sign of regression coefficients, machine learning may best play an ancillary role. Wherever predictive accuracy is paramount, however, or where heteroskedasticity or high dimensionality might impair the clarity of linear methods, machine learning can deliver superior results.</p>","PeriodicalId":45656,"journal":{"name":"International Advances in Economic Research","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138518191","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}
Garvan Whelan, Paul Hanly, Vincent O’Connell, Oldřich Ludwig Dittrich, Naser Abu Ghazalah
{"title":"Impact on Firm Liquidity Arising from Outsourcing Decisions as Evidenced by Off-Balance-Sheet Disclosures","authors":"Garvan Whelan, Paul Hanly, Vincent O’Connell, Oldřich Ludwig Dittrich, Naser Abu Ghazalah","doi":"10.1007/s11294-021-09814-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11294-021-09814-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Based on transaction-cost and resource-based theories (and other approaches), there is an extensive literature on the range of factors that are viewed as relevant to the outsourcing decision. However, this study’s investigations revealed a gap in the literature because the impact of outsourcing on liquidity has not been fully analysed. The study addressed this issue through an empirical investigation that identified a source of information on the amount of contractual purchase obligations arising from the outsourcing decision and demonstrated their significant impact on company liquidity. The data source was the United States Securities and Exchange Commission database that included each company’s annual return incorporating off-balance-sheet Sarbanes Oxley mandated disclosures. The study found that these disclosures as contractual purchase obligations can be used as a proxy for outsourcing activities and provided details of resulting future cash flows. The Wilcoxon signed-rank test was conducted to test for significant differences at the 5% confidence level between the results of three metrics before and after the inclusion of short-term purchase obligations. A null hypothesis of no difference between liquidity ratio mean ranks before and after the addition of purchase obligations <1 year was assumed. Analysis and testing revealed statistically significant differences (<i>p</i> = 0.012) between three liquidity metrics calculated using standard financial statement data and those that were adjusted for the off-balance-sheet contractual purchase obligation disclosures.</p>","PeriodicalId":45656,"journal":{"name":"International Advances in Economic Research","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138518192","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}
{"title":"Digital Consumer Behaviour and eCommerce Trends during the COVID-19 Crisis","authors":"Petra Jílková,Petra Králová","doi":"10.1007/s11294-021-09817-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11294-021-09817-4","url":null,"abstract":"The COVID-19 global pandemic has rapidly changed e-commerce. With revenues of US $351.9 billion, Europe was the third largest e-commerce market in 2019. Annual growth (6.0%) is projected to lead to revenues of US $565.9 billion by 2025 in Europe. Overall, e-commerce revenues saw 10% additional growth in Europe in 2020 due to the COVID-19 crisis (Statista, https://www.statista.com/study/42335 /ecommerce-report/2021, 2021). New e-commerce standards build on traditional marketing theories (Haan et al., Journal of Marketing, 2018; Sunder et al., Journal of Marketing Research, 2016; Verhoef, Journal of Marketing, 2017) with the added insight of understanding digital consumer behavioural characteristics, developing consumer insights and creating value propositions that offer consumers higher levels of satisfaction (Achrol and Kotler, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, 2012; Eggert et al., Industrial Marketing Management, 2020; Payne and Frow, Journal of Services Marketing, 2020). During the COVID-19 crisis, consumer behaviour and purchasing habits fundamentally changed. This paper examines the effect the COVID-19 crisis had on digital consumer behaviour and discusses factors affecting online shopping and the latest trends in ecommerce in the Czech Republic. Potential respondents were selected from different generational cohorts in two waves. Based on generation cohort theory (Igelhart, Princeton University Press, 1997), the current research defined respondent cohorts as follows: Generation Alpha (2011-present), Generation Z (1997–2010), Generation Y (Millennials) (1983–1996), Generation X (1965–1982), Baby Boomers (1946–1964), Int Adv Econ Res https://doi.org/10.1007/s11294-021-09817-4","PeriodicalId":45656,"journal":{"name":"International Advances in Economic Research","volume":"7 13","pages":"83-85"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138518179","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}
{"title":"Implementation of eGovernment from the Perspective of Public Administration","authors":"Josef Horák,Jiřina Bokšová,Michal Bokša","doi":"10.1007/s11294-021-09816-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11294-021-09816-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45656,"journal":{"name":"International Advances in Economic Research","volume":"15 1","pages":"87-89"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138518190","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}
Thomas Poufinas, G. Galanos, Charalampos Agiropoulos
{"title":"The Impact of Competitiveness on the Shadow Economy","authors":"Thomas Poufinas, G. Galanos, Charalampos Agiropoulos","doi":"10.1007/s11294-021-09820-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11294-021-09820-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45656,"journal":{"name":"International Advances in Economic Research","volume":"27 1","pages":"29 - 46"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s11294-021-09820-9","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"52597917","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}
{"title":"Job Satisfaction of Estonian Professional Accountants","authors":"Liis Tetsov, N. Gurvitš-Suits, Jiří Strouhal","doi":"10.1007/s11294-021-09819-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11294-021-09819-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45656,"journal":{"name":"International Advances in Economic Research","volume":"27 1","pages":"79 - 81"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s11294-021-09819-2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48257661","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}