• closedAccess   Does Environmetal Policy Stringency Foster Innovation and Productivity in OECD Countries? 

      Morales-Lage, Rafael; Bengochea, Aurelia; Martinez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (2016)
      In this paper we use panel data models and quantile regressions to test the “weak” and “strong” versions of the Porter hypothesis, using data from 14 OECD countries over the period 1990-2011. A newly-released environmental ...
    • openAccess   Eco-Efficiency and Convergence in OECD Countries 

      Camarero, Mariam; Castillo, Juana; Picazo-Tadeo, Andrés J; Tamarit, Cecilio Springer Verlag (2013-05)
      This paper assesses the convergence in eco-efficiency of a group of 22 OECD countries over the period 1980–2008. In doing so, three air pollutants representing the impact on the environment of economic activities are ...
    • openAccess   Effects of trade liberalization in environmental goods 

      Fernández David, Aroa Universitat Jaume I (2019-07-17)
      The need to protect and preserve the environment in a globalized world is causing countries to reach agreements through international organizations to enable the coexistence of trade and environment. Through the World Trade ...
    • openAccess   Inequality and growth 

      Gallén Porcar, Fernando Universitat Jaume I (2015-01-26)
      Inequality is a phenomenon which is analysed from many points of view. Several studies find that inequality is positive for economic growth whereas some other reports believe it is unfavourable for the economy’s improvement. ...
    • closedAccess   Is the environmental performance of industrialized countries converging? A 'SURE' approach to testing for convergence 

      Camarero, Mariam; Picazo-Tadeo, Andrés J; Tamarit, Cecilio Elsevier (2008)
      In this paper, we test for convergence in the environmental performance of a sample of OECD countries, with data ranging from 1971 to 2002. First, we use Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to compute two environmental performance ...
    • closedAccess   Tax havens and offshore companies 

      Alexe, Raluca Universitat Jaume I (2017-11-14)
      Tax Havens are extremely important for the present society, because they are territories or countries with low or even zero tax rates which offer confidence, security and tax advantages to non-residents. For this reason, ...
    • openAccess   The Effect of Income on Democracy Revisited A Flexible Distributional Approach 

      Idzalika, Rajius; Kneib, Thomas; Martinez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada Springer (2017-12-26)
      We reexamine the effect of economic development on the level of democ- racy based on the data sets of Acemoglu et al. (Am Econ Rev 98(3):808–842, 2008) with a novel regression specification utilizing a zero–one-inflated ...
    • closedAccess   Trade effects of trade facilitation revisited 

      Masood, Amjad; Martinez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada Elsevier (2023-12-01)
      This paper is the first to evaluate the effect of trade facilitation measures on bilateral exports considering intra-national trade. The measures used are based on the United Nations Global Survey on Digital and Sustainable ...