Advances in Longitudinal Data Methods in Applied Economic Research

Chapter 1: Forecasting the South African Financial Cycle: A Linear and Non-linear Approach.- Chapter 2: From clubs to communities. From tourists to international friends.- Chapter 3: Measuring Dynamic Capabilities-Based Synergies in M&A Deals with Real Options: Amazon's Acquisition of Whole Food.- Chapter 4: Raising rivals' costs when the downstream firms compete in Stackelberg fashion.- Chapter 5: Comparing five generational cohorts on their sustainable food consumption patterns: Recommendations for improvement through marketing communication.- Chapter 6: The Effect of Budgetary Policies on the Economy Activity in Algeria: A Markov Switching Approach.- Chapter 7: Structure of Bond Pension Funds during Decreasing Yield Curves.- Chapter 8: Extracting Common Factors from Liquidity Measures with Principal Component Analysis on the Polish Stock Market.- Chapter 9: The Mechanism of Political Budget Cycles in Greece.- Chapter 10: Examination Of Business Interest In Level Of Complexity Of Facial Biometric Technology Implementation In Slovakia.- Chapter 11: Innovation And Sales Growth Among Heterogeneous Albanian Firms - A Quantile Approach.- Chapter 12: Quantitative analysis of inequalities at ICT sector in Visegrad countries.- Chapter 13: Does government spending cause investment - A Panel Data Analysis.- Chapter 14: An exploratory study of fans' motivation in Albanian football championship.- Chapter 15: Accounting knowledge of regional economic university students.- Chapter 16: Corporate governance disclosure in Slovak banks.- Chapter 17: Implementation of Critical Reflection Analysis in Process of Teaching and Learning which Focused on Developing Critical Thinking Skills.- Chapter 18: Agreement between methods of measurement of poverty rates.- Chapter 19: The role of strategic agility and economic environment's friendliness-hostility in explaining success of Polish SMEs.- Chapter 20: Macroeconomic determinants of NPLs using an extended sample and Dominance Analysis.- Chapter 21: Aspects of financial accounting and managerial accounting outputs in connection with the decision-making processes of accounting units.- Chapter 22: Movies performance: empirical evidence from Italy.- Chapter 23: Patterns of knowledge creation in European regions: an analysis by the phases of the EU-enlargements.- Chapter 24: Influence of Economic Sanctions: Empirical Evidence for Iran and Russia.- Chapter 25: Corporate Governance and its association with audit opinion: the case of Greece.- Chapter 26: CO2 Emissions, Energy Consumption, Economic Growth, Trade and Urbanization in Greece.- Chapter 27: Does the Time Driven ABC method apply in a construction company.- Chapter 28: Economic crisis predictors revisited in preparation for the COVID-19 aftermath.- Chapter 29: Should Market Makers Hedge with Realised or Implied Volatility.- Chapter 30: Stress Testing Option Sensitivities in a Stochastic Market.- Chapter 31: Firm performances and the onset of shocks in India.- Chapter 32: The Neoclassical Approach for measuring Total Factor Productivity: the case of the Greek Economy.- Chapter 33: Consumers' Motives for visiting Social media pages and Social media Advertisements.- Chapter 34: Factors affecting E-Marketing adoption and implementation in food firms: An empirical investigation of Greek food and beverage firms.- Chapter 35: An application of Differential Equations on Anthropogenic Climate Change.- Author Index.