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Investigating the role of festivalscape in culinary tourism: the case of food and wine events
No full texthis paper analyses the importance of festivalscapes in determining emotions, satisfaction and future behavior of participants at food and wine events. The study applies a structural equation model (SEM) with latent variables to survey responses of visitors to the “Friuli DOC” Italian festival. The main results are that festivalscape and emotions have significant direct effects on satisfaction, which in turn has a significant effect on behavioral intention. The effects of the festivalscape on visitors' future behavior are only indirect and mediated by satisfaction. Thus, in order to enhance their visitors' behavioral intentions, festival organizers should monitor emotions and satisfaction deriving from the subjective perception of exogenous characteristics as food and wine quality, comfort and entertainment
The Gender Factor in Monetary Policy: A Database for an Event-Based Study
No full textIn the manuscript ‘The Gender Factor in Monetary Policy: An Event-Study Design’ we evaluate the gender factor in monetary policy. For this purpose, we considered the start of a new presidential term at a central bank as an event after which to assess possible changes in monetary policy and gender differences in these changes. To enable this type of analysis, we created a database with information on the start of the term of office of all central bankers—male or female—who served during the period 1980-2018. The file FGP_CBgender_appendix_data.dta contains this information for all central bankers of the central banks listed on the Bank for Institutional Settlements website. The data are organised by event (one row for each event). The file allows the tables in the article's appendix to be replicated using the commands in the FGP_CBgender_appendix_run.do file.
The FGP_CBgender_paper_data.dta and FGP_CBgender_paper_run.do files provide the dataset and commands to replicate everything included in the body of the manuscript—figures and estimation results contained in the tables. The dataset only includes events that entered the estimation process, according to the selection procedure described in the manuscript (Section 3.2) and the exclusion of countries with missing data
Survival of farms in Veneto region of Italy 1999-2004
No full textAt a micro level, the authors model the survival of farms in the Veneto Region (Italy) for the
period 1999–2004, by means of a new database that links information on survival histories in
the Official Registers of the Chamber of Commerce with information on socioeconomic and
structural characteristics of farms and farmers collected for the 2000 Census of Agriculture.
First, the cohort of farms founded in 1999 is considered, and then the analysis is extended
to all farms registered at the end of 1999. The model performs quite well in selecting
farms with a high probability of survival
Assessing the effects of the 'Mobility Lists' programme by flexible duration models
No full textThe ‘Mobility Lists’ programme handles collective redundancies, and combines income support to eligible dismissed employees with benefits to employers who hire them. Benefits vary according to dismissing firm size and are greater for older workers. We focus on the differential effects of programme treatments on the probability of moving from unemployment into permanent jobs. We specify flexible duration models in order to estimate the profile of differential effects over time. Older workers, enjoying longer packages of benefits, have significantly lower chances of moving to employment. Differential effects vary with time and are higher when younger workers approach the expiry of benefits
Organizational and perceived learning in the workplace: A multilevel perspective on employees' problem solving
No full textUsing a multilevel theoretical framework, we investigate the effects of organizational and perceived learning on employees’ systematic problem solving (SPS) that aims to prevent the recurrence of a problem. At the organizational level, we focus on the deliberate learning mechanisms of knowledge articulation (OKA) and knowledge codification (OKC). At the individual level, we focus on the relative perception of the mechanisms of knowledge articulation (PKA) and knowledge codification (PKC). Drawing on both knowledge management and sensemaking literature, we move from learning only captured through organizational mechanisms, which suppose individuals are passively embedded in the organizational context, to learning captured through perceived mechanisms, which suppose individuals take an active part in the learning processes and interpret them differently. We employ multilevel structural equation modeling to test our theoretical framework using survey data from a sample of 383 shop floor employees in 52 plants. To enhance our results, we perform a set of robustness checks that control different specifications of our model and potential endogeneity issues. Our study indicates that OKC affects SPS, while OKA affects OKC. Moreover, results show that both PKA and PKC have strong positive effects on SPS. Our study draws attention to the multilevel role of organizational learning and expands the understanding of the role of problem solving in routine evolution
The gender factor in monetary policy: An event-study design
Full text linkThis article assesses whether central bankers’ monetary policy preferences differ by gender. Based on a monetary policy rule in which the inflation rate is a function of the output gap, we estimated differences in this rule between central banks with female presidents and those with male presidents. Using an original database of 159 countries observed from 1980-2018, we adopted an event-study design, which, compared with the related literature, offers a novel approach to evaluate gender differences in inflation changes in the years following a new presidential appointment. A difference-in-differences strategy with propensity score matching showed that men central bank presidents are strongly conservative (hawks) in their monetary policy, at least in the first years after taking office. On the contrary, women central bank presidents are progressive (doves). This implies that women let the inflation rate fluctuate more—in relation to the output gap—than do men
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