Advances in Empirical Economic Research: 2022 International Conference on Applied Economics (ICOAE), Madrid, Spain, July 7-9, 2022 [Hardcover]

This volume presents new empirical methods and applications in economics with special interest in advances in empirical macroeconomics, microeconomics, financial economics, international economics, and agricultural economics. Featuring selected contributions from the 2022 International Conference of Applied Economics (ICOAE 2021), this book provides country specific studies with potential applications in economic policy. It is beneficial to researchers, scholars, academics and policy makers in quantitative economic research (in both methods and applications).1. Strategic agility and success perception of Polish SMEs: an alternative operationalization to pre-Covid-19 and Covid-19 business conditions.- 2. R&D cooperation of firms and product market competition  an overview.- 3. Market Restrictions of Contracting Out the Public Service at the Municipal Level.- 4. DESCRIPTION AND CATEGORIZATION OF AGRICULTURE HOLDINGS IN THE REGION OF WESTERN MACEDONIA.- 5. Taxes, debt and the Value of Multinational Enterprises. International Policy Implications.- 6. Modelling and forecasting GDP of Greece with a modified exponential smoothing state space framework.- 7. Last mile and blockchain: opportunities and challenges.- 8. Total Factor Productivity and Entrepreneurship: Creative Self-Destruction.- 9. Generation Z intention to comply with non-mandatory government measures for self-protection of COVID -19 and SARS-CoV-2 variants after restriction withdrawals.- 10. The spatial distribution of the populationin peninsular Spain. An evolution of a permanent nature.- 11. Food waste in Greece: an empirical study.- 12. Success Factors in Public-Private Partnership of High Speed Railway Infrastructures: Elements for Improvement.- 13. Holistic evaluation of technology transfer extension programs.- 14. E-BANKING LOYALTY AND ITS BACKGROUND: A BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS.l““