Abstract Geography has previously been noted as a decisive factor in business literature. This paper provides evidence of the significant role geography plays in customer lapse behaviour in an urban environment. This novel approach is based on the idea that the customers who cancel all policies and leave the company are not randomly distributed; rather,…
Abstract This paper presents evidence of the significant role that geography plays in customer churn behaviour in online retail. In an urban environment, mimetic behaviours are found to affect nearby individuals. This novel approach is based on the idea that customer churn is not randomly distributed across the map. This paper analyses more than 2,000…
Abstract Developments in anthropometric history in the Iberian Peninsula have been remarkable in recent decades. In contrast, we barely know about the behavior of insular population groups and infants’ and adults’ growth during the nutritional transition in the Canary Islands. This paper analyzes the height, weight and body mass index of military recruits (conscripts) in…
Abstract Metaheuristic and exact methods are one of the most common tools to solve Mixed-Integer Optimization Problems (MIPs). Most of these problems are NP-hard problems, being intractable to obtain optimal solutions in a reasonable time when the size of the problem is huge. In this paper, a hybrid parallel optimization algorithm for matheuristics is studied….
Abstract In this paper we use data from OECD countries participating in PISA 2012 to assess the efficiency of schools in a cross-country framework. In the analysis, and in contrast to previous applications, we consider that schools might concentrate their efforts on improving the results in one dimension of the educational output to a greater…
Abstract Mixed Integer Linear Programs (MILPs) are usually NP-hard mathematical programming problems, which present difficulties to obtain optimal solutions in a reasonable time for large-scale models. Nowadays, metaheuristics are one of the potential tools for solving this type of problems in any context. In this paper, we focus our attention on MILPs in the specific…
Resumen El estudio busca responder cuáles son los determinantes de la desigualdad del ingreso en Chile, desde la perspectiva de sus regiones. El análisis empírico (1990-2016) demuestra que en Chile la relación entre el PIB per cápita y el Gini no tiene la tradicional forma de la U invertida de Kuznets, sino más bien, el…
Resumen El estudio retrata la dinámica de las desigualdades en Chile (1990-2016) desde la perspectiva de sus regiones. Se construye una amplia base de datos con distintas medidas de desigualdad del ingreso. Se devela gran heterogeneidad entre las regiones chilenas. Se observa que las regiones más desiguales, son igualmente aquellas con menor PIB per cápita…
Abstract Purpose: The main purpose of this study is to analyze how factors such as innovation, entrepreneurial spirit and motivation, as well as various economic and environmental factors, affect the creation of born-global (BG) companies. Design/methodology/approach: The research model was tested through logistic regression techniques to a sample obtained from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor data set for…
Abstract In this paper, we elaborate an open economy Phillips curve (OEPC) with micro-founded analysis, in which external competition significantly impacts the domestic inflation rate. This influence is transmitted through two channels: a) the gap between the current and potential growth of imports, and b) real exchange-rate misalignment. We estimate this OEPC by applying two…
