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Ukrainian export and production after the 2014 Russia shock
No full textWhile significant attention has been dedicated to sanctions episodes among major economies which usually rely on a diverse set of trade partners, little is known about the impact of sanctions imposed by senders on economies highly dependent on them. Using Ukrainian export data for 2009-2019 at product level, I study the effects of trade restrictions imposed by the Russian Federation against Ukraine since 2016 accounting for the impact of Russian occupation and destruction of productive capacities. I find no evidence for evasion of Russian trade policy measures via export to other members of the Eurasian Economic Union or product misclassification, instead trade flows were redirected to new destinations. Industries with higher exposure to Russian market experienced significant reductions in employment, number of enterprises and turnover when targeted by embargo
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Not-so-innocent bystanders: Trade with neighbors of sanctioned countries
No full textGeographic neighbors of sanctioned countries (targets) may suffer from indirect effects of sanctions or benefit by helping targets circumvent restrictions. I study the effects of sanctions on trade among neighbors and targets using data from BACI for 2002-2022 and separately accounting for export of sensitive goods: arms, dual use goods and machinery. I find that export of dual use goods (in value) and machinery (in value and weight) from benevolent neighbors to targets increases when sanctions are in place. Additionally, I show that the weight of arms exported by neighbors to Iran, as well as value of dual use goods and weight of machinery exported to Russia were significantly higher with sanctions in place suggesting that their neighbors were not innocent bystanders
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Investment Location Choice in India
Get PDFThis thesis contributes to the economic literature on India and specifically focuses on investment project (IP) location choice. I study three topics that naturally arise in sequence: geographic concentration of investment projects, the determinants of the location choices, and the impact these choices have on project success.
In Chapter 2, I provide the analysis of geographic concentration of IPs. I find that investments were concentrated over the period of observation (1996–2015), although the degree of concentration was decreasing. Additionally, I analyze different subsamples of the data set by ownership (Indian private, Indian public and foreign) and project status (completed or dropped). Foreign projects in all industries are more concentrated than private and public, while for the latter categories I identify only minor differences in concentration levels. Additionally, I find that the location patterns of completed and dropped investments are similar to that of the overall distribution and the distributions of their respective industries with completed IPs being somewhat more concentrated.
In Chapter 3, I study the determinants of project location choices with the focus on an important highway upgrade, the Golden Quadrilateral (GQ). In line with the existing literature, the GQ construction is connected to higher levels of investment in the affected non-nodal GQ districts in 2002–2016. I also provide suggestive evidence on changes in firm behavior after the GQ construction: Firms located in the non-nodal GQ districts became less likely to invest in their neighbor districts after the GQ completion compared to firms located in districts unaffected by the GQ construction.
Finally, in Chapter 4, I investigate the characteristics of IPs that may contribute to discontinuation of their implementation by comparing completed investments to dropped ones, defined as abandoned, shelved, and stalled investments as identified on the date of the data download. Controlling for local and business cycle conditions, as well as various investor and project characteristics, I show that projects located in close proximity to the investor offices (i.e., in the same district) are more likely to achieve the completion stage than more remote projects.Die vorliegende Dissertation befasst sich mit der Standortwahl von Investitionsprojekten (IP) in Indien in 1996–2016. In den drei Kapiteln, die zum Haupttext gehören, werden die folgenden drei verbundenen Themen behandelt: die geographische Konzentration von Projekten, die Faktoren, die ihre Standortwahl beeinflussen, sowie die Auswirkungen der Standortwahl auf die erfolgreiche Implementierung von Investitionsprojekten.
Kapitel 2 befasst sich mit der geographischen Konzentration von Investitionsprojekten. Ich stelle fest, dass die Investitionen insgesamt konzentriert waren, obwohl das Konzentrationsniveau über den Beobachtungszeitraum abnehmend war. Außerdem führe ich separate Analysen für unterschiedliche Gruppen von Projekten nach Eigentümer (Indische private, Indische öffentliche und ausländische Firmen) und Projektstatus (abgeschlossen oder abgebrochen) durch. Ausländische Projekte sind in allen Branchen stärker konzentriert als private und öffentliche, während ich für die letztgenannten Kategorien nur geringe Unterschiede im Konzentrationsgrad feststellen kann. Darüber hinaus zeige ich, dass die Standortmuster abgeschlossener und abgebrochener Investitionen denen der Gesamtverteilung und der Verteilungen der jeweiligen Wirtschaftszweige ähneln, wobei abgeschlossene IPs etwas stärker konzentriert sind.
Im Kapitel 3 untersuche ich die Determinanten der Standortwahl von neuen IPs in Indien vor dem Hintergrund des Ausbaus des indischen Autobahnsystems, dem sogenannten Golden Quadrilateral (GQ). Ich stelle fest, dass Investoren in den Jahren 2002–2016 insgesamt eher nicht-Knoten GQ-Distrikte wählten, wenn man die üblichen Merkmale auf Bezirksebene berücksichtigt. Die Ergebnisse im zweiten Teil der Analyse deuten auf Veränderungen im Unternehmensverhalten nach dem Abschluss des Baus des GQ hin: Unternehmen, die in den nicht-Knoten GQ-Distrikten angesiedelt sind, investierten nach der Fertigstellung des GQ mit geringerer Wahrscheinlichkeit in ihren Nachbardistrikten als Unternehmen in Distrikten, die nicht vom Bau des GQ betroffen waren.
Im Kapitel 4 liefere ich neue Belege für die Rolle der Geografie bei der Projektrealisierung in Indien. Ich untersuche die Eigenschaften von Investitionsprojekten, die mit deren Nichtvollendung verbunden sind, indem ich abgeschlossene Investitionen mit abgebrochenen Investitionen, definiert als aufgegebene, eingestellte oder stillgelegte Projekte, vergleiche. Unter Berücksichtigung von Standort- und Konjunkturbedingungen, sowie Investor- und projektspezifischen Merkmalen zeige ich, dass Projekte, die sich in unmittelbarer Nähe zum Sitz des Investors befinden (d. h. im selben Distrikt), mit größerer Wahrscheinlichkeit das Abschlussstadium erreichen als weiter entfernte Projekte
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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