Response mode was operationalized by the information on how participants completed the questionnaires (3-categorical variable: paper-pencil, online, telephone interview).
A symmetrical mutualistic relationship is observed for eight pairs of variables (16 variables) among 45 such pairs (90 variables): papers-awards, papers-coordinators, patents-news, products-awards, products-coordinators, coordinators-URs, startups-URs, and news-URs.
Regarding the trade growth, a dependent variable, this paper uses indicators for capturing trade growth changes.
By gaining a better appreciation of supply chain uncertainty as a contextual variable, this paper contributes theoretically and conceptually to the literature.
In an effort to tackle reverse causality without compromising the correct policy variable, this paper follows this more recent approach, using as instruments the lagged values of the policy variables.
In order to pick out the appropriate influential variables, this paper examines a total of some 25 potential variables relating to each of the six groups previously outlined (Economics, Fundamentals, Technology, Financial factors, Speculation and Geopolitical instability).
Considering the asynchronism of price changes and the accumulating of exogenous variables, this paper is conservative with the forecasting value of urgency.
Through a quite basic archaeo-geographical analysis of topographical-derived variables this paper proposes a preliminary reading of these patterns for the Lorient region (Southwest Morbihan).
In the spirit to accurately follow the on-line machine variables, this paper focuses on the simultaneous estimation of internal states and time varying parameters.
As regards the mapping mechanism used to create the candidate allocations and introduce the diversity in the resulting interference to optimize the decision variables, this paper proposes two distinct methods which are analyzed below.
