In this paper we examine the location determinants of the inflow of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) into Poland, at a regional level. Using survey data from an online questionnaire in February 2005 and a multinomial logit model incorporating the investor’s specific characteristics, we show that knowledge-seeking factors alongside market and agglomeration factors, act as the main drivers for the...

This paper focuses on the questions to what extent agglomeration effects and localized inter-organizational linkages influence different types of innovative performance of firms. Doing so adds to the relatively scarce firm-level literature regarding the role of regional environment for the innovative performance of firms by disentangling the often conflated effects of agglomeration effects and ...

Deep neural retrieval models have amply demonstrated their power but estimating the reliability of predictions remains challenging. Most dialog response output a single score for on how relevant it is to given question. However, bad calibration deep network results in various uncertainty such that unreliable always misinform user decisions. To investigate these issues, we present an efficient a...

This paper examines the impact of floods on firms’ capital accumulation, employment growth and productivity by using a difference-indifference approach and considering firms’ asset structure. We find evidence that after a flooding companies in flooded regions show on average higher growth of total assets and employment than firms in areas not affected by flooding. The positive effect prevails f...

The scope of this study is to unravel possible convergence clubs regarding the occupancy rates hotel industry in US states aftermath first COVID-19 pandemic wave. For reason, underlying paper resorts application generic algorithm developed Phillips and Sul (2007) for a sample 50 over daily period ranging from 01.12.2019 26.07.2020. empirical analysis supports identification two primary consisti...

Faculty of Law and Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, and Research Director, Health Law Institute, Un ivers ity of Alberta. Colin Feasby, LL.M ., J.S .D. Candid ate, C olum bia U niver sity. W e would like to thank Tracy Bailey and N ina Haw kins for their valuable assistance and the Alberta Heritage Foun dation for M edical Research fo r their continued su pport. See, for example, Canada, Natu...

OBJECTIVES We tested the hypothesis that an abnormal response of plasma endothelin-1 (ET-1) is elicited by handgrip exercise (HG) in young normotensive offspring of hypertensive parents. BACKGROUND It has been hypothesized that ET-1 is involved in blood pressure control and plays a pathophysiologic role in the development of clinical hypertension. METHODS Two groups of healthy male subjects...