Advances in Empirical Economic Research

Nicholas Tsounis is a Professor of Economic Analysis at the Department of Economics, University of Western Macedonia (Greece) and an adjunct faculty member at the Hellenic Open University (Greece). His research interests are on international economics, economics of tourism and computational economics. He has published many articles in international scientific periodicals and conferences proceedings as well as books. He is the co-founder of the International Conference on Applied Economics (ICOAE).Aspasia Vlachvei is Professor of Marketing at the Department of Economics, University of Western Macedonia (Greece). Her research interests focus on international marketing strategies, competitiveness, wine tourism and wine marketing, e-marketing, social media. She has published many articles in international scientific periodicals and conferences proceedings as well as books. She is the co-founder of the International Conference on Applied Economics (ICOAE).

• 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.- 15. Evaluating European climate policy impact on the CO2 emissions per capita convergence process in the European Union countries.- 16. The Economics of Civil Orders and Medals in Spain: An Update after Ten Years.- 17. ‘Ctrl+Supr’ versus ‘Shift+Comp’ Industrialization and business services as engine of regional growth.- 18. easuring stakeholders’ influence on business performance. Case of Slovakia.- 19. Testing for sequences and reversals on Bitcoin series.- 20. CHAID algorithm applied in a post-rating to business-risk insurance contracts.