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The effect of human capital on occupational health and safety investment: an empirical analysis of Spanish firms
Núñez Aldaz, Imanol
; Prieto, Maite (Wiley, 2019)
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This paper analyses how firms' human capital influences their investments in occupational health and safety (OHS). We argue that the incentive to protect workers by investing in OHS is a function of the stock of human ... -
La eficiencia energética, el efecto rebote y el crecimiento económico
Gómez Gómez-Plana, Antonio; Arocena Garro, Pablo ; Peña Vidondo, Sofía (Funcas, 2016)
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El trabajo revisa la relación entre la mejora de la eficiencia energética y el efecto rebote, así como el impacto que cabe anticipar sobre el consumo de energía y el crecimiento en la economía española. -
The energy and gross domestic product causality nexus in Latin America 1900-2010
Leiva, Benjamín; Rubio Varas, María del Mar (EconJournals, 2020)
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A better understanding of the relationship between energy consumption and economic growth is important for the less developed regions of the world such as Africa or Latin America, which future might be compromised by the ... -
The Energy Mix Concentration Index (EMCI): methodological considerations for implementation
Rubio Varas, María del Mar; Muñoz Delgado, Beatriz (Elsevier B.V., 2019)
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The Energy Mix Concentration Index (EMCI)is a quantitative indicator of concentration of the energy mix based upon the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index. We use the EMCI to compare the evolution of the diversification (versus ... -
Engineers and scientists as commercial agents of the Spanish nuclear programme
Torre Campo, Joseba de la; Rubio Varas, María del Mar ; Sanz Lafuente, María Gloria (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
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We aim at analysing the role of engineers and scientists as agents of economic modernization in Spain, which at the time was an underdeveloped economy ruled by an authoritarian regime. -
Entrepreneurs’ human capital and growth aspirations: the moderating role of regional entrepreneurial culture
Capelleras, Joan Lluís; Contín Pilart, Ignacio; Larraza Kintana, Martín ; Martín Sánchez, Víctor (Springer, 2019)
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This paper investigates the impact of entrepreneurs’ human capital on their growth aspirations and the moderating role of regional entrepreneurial culture in this relationship. Based on human capital theory, we argue that ... -
The First World War and the Latin American transition from coal to petroleum
Rubio Varas, María del Mar (Elsevier, 2019)
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While it is true that the precise nature of the future energy transition is uncertain, and no standardized transition is expected as such, it is also true that the energy transition phenomenon can only be described as an ... -
Freshwater for cooling needs: a long-run approach to the nuclear water footprint in Spain
Sesma Martín, Diego; Rubio Varas, María del Mar (Elsevier, 2017)
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From the invention of the steam engine to the present, water has represented a significant input to the energy system, although this has been mostly ignored in the literature. In Spain, the most arid country in Europe, ... -
Geometrical aggregation of finite fuzzy sets
Campión Arrastia, María Jesús; García Catalán, Olga Raquel ; Induráin Eraso, Esteban ; Lizasoain Iriso, María Inmaculada ; Raventós Pujol, Armajac ; Valero, Óscar (Elsevier, 2018)
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A fuzzy set on a finite universe can be interpreted as a vector in a unit cube. This gives rise to a huge variety of approaches in order to aggregate finite fuzzy sets or to modify a given one. We analyze several geometrical ... -
Hidden power of trading activity: the FLB in tennis betting exchanges
Abinzano Guillén, María Isabel; Muga Caperos, Luis Fernando ; Santamaría Aquilué, Rafael (SAGE Publications, 2017)
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This paper examines the impact of trading activity on the Favourite-Longshot Bias (FLB) in tennis Betting Exchanges, using direct measures such as betting volume, average bet and standard deviation of the odds. According ... -
The hidden value of intangibles: do CEO characteristics matter?
Garcés Galdeano, Lucía; García Olaverri, Carmen (Emerald, 2019)
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Purpose: A great deal of research has examined the relationship between a single CEO attribute and a single measure of firm performance; no attempts have been made to integrate them to create a more global vision of both. ... -
Long-term diversification paths and energy transitions in Europe
Rubio Varas, María del Mar; Muñoz Delgado, Beatriz (Elsevier B.V., 2019)
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The authors propose a synthetic indicator that allows one to compare and contrast the evolution of the composition of the primary energy baskets of eight European countries over the last two centuries, and quantitatively ... -
Machines and energy. Energy capital ratios in Europe and Latin America 1875 - 1970'
Ducoing, Cristián; Gales, Ben; Hölsgens, Rick; Rubio Varas, María del Mar (Taylor & Francis, 2018)
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The relationship between energy and capital is one of the most important aspects of modern economic growth. Machines need energy to produce all the goods we enjoy; energy would be far less useful for humankind in absence ... -
Managerial family ties and employee risk bearing in family firms: evidence from Spanish car dealers
Gómez Mejía, Luis R.; Larraza Kintana, Martín; Moyano Fuentes, José; Firfiray, Shainaz (Wiley, 2018)
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This article discusses that family firms in which the top management team (TMT) is dominated bynonfamily managers are more likely to shift risk to employees through incentive pay schemesthan family firms with TMTs dominated ... -
Measuring and decomposing productivity change in the presence of mergers
Arocena Garro, Pablo; Saal, David S.; Urakami, Takuya; Zschille, Michael (Elsevier, 2020)
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Managers and policymakers often encourage mergers and acquisitions of companies with the aim of increasing the productivity of the involved firms. However, problems with the measurement of productivity change usually occur ... -
Measuring credit risk in family firms
Abinzano Guillén, María Isabel; Corredor Casado, María Pilar ; Martínez García, Beatriz (SAGE, 2020)
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This article attempts to identify the default risk measure which best reflects the idiosyncratic context of public family firms. Seven accounting- and market-based measures are compared over a sample of 981 US family and ... -
On staggered prices and optimal inflation
Aguilera Bravo, Asier; Casares Polo, Miguel (Elsevier, 2019)
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This paper computes the steady-state optimal rate of inflation in a model with monopolistic competition under two different sticky-price specifications, Calvo (1983) and Taylor (1980).The optimal rate of inflation is ... -
On the use of biased-randomized algorithms for solving non-smooth optimization problems
Juan, Ángel Alejandro; Corlu, Canan Gunes; Tordecilla, Rafael David; Torre, Rocío de la; Ferrer, Albert (MDPI, 2020)
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Soft constraints are quite common in real-life applications. For example, in freight transportation, the fleet size can be enlarged by outsourcing part of the distribution service and some deliveries to customers can be ... -
Open innovation in the food and beverage industry
Bayona Sáez, Cristina; Cruz Cázares, Claudio; García Marco, María Teresa ; Sánchez García, Mercedes (Emerald, 2017)
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to extend the knowledge into the relationship between open innovation (OI) and firm’s innovative performance. Specifically, the authors aim to determine whether the benefits of OI ... -
Optimizing energy consumption in transportation: literature review, insights, and research opportunities
Corlu, Canan Gunes; Torre, Rocío de la; Serrano Hernández, Adrián ; Juan, Ángel Alejandro; Faulín Fajardo, Javier (MDPI, 2020)
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From airplanes to electric vehicles and trains, modern transportation systems require large quantities of energy. These vast amounts of energy have to be produced somewhere—ideally by using sustainable sources—and then ...
