• closedAccess   Are EU standards detrimental to Africa’s exports? 

      Kareem, Fatima Olanike; Martinez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada Elsevier (2020-06-15)
      The high costs of complying with standards adversely affect export competitiveness. Existing evidence suggests that the harmonisation of standards to international benchmarks reduces compliance costs and is less trade-inhibiting, ...
    • openAccess   Bilateral Trade Flows and Income-Distribution Similarity 

      Martinez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; Vollmer, Sebastian Public Library of Science (2016-05-03)
      Current models of bilateral trade neglect the effects of income distribution. This paper addresses the issue by accounting for non-homothetic consumer preferences and hence investigating the role of income distribution ...
    • closedAccess   Determinants of the export performance in Spain from 1960 to 2017 

      Alegre Jiménez, Marta Universitat Jaume I (2018-06-20)
      This paper evaluates some of the determinants of the level of exports in the long and short-term in Spain after explaining the importance of exports for economic growth and making a description of the variables used for ...
    • openAccess   Does Aid Promote Donor Exports? Commercial Interest versus Instrumental Philanthropy 

      Martinez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas; Parra Robles, María Dolores; Klasen, Stephan John Wiley & Sons (2014)
      This paper investigates by means of advanced panel data techniques whether bilateral aid has been successful in promoting bilateral exports to recipient countries during the period 1988–2007 and to what extent changes in ...
    • openAccess   Effects of Foreign Aid on Income through International Trade 

      Martinez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada Cogitatio Press (2019)
      This article presents a review of recent studies that estimate the trade effects of foreign aid. It also provides new results obtained using panel data techniques to estimate the direct effects of aid on international ...
    • openAccess   Exports and governance: Is the Middle East and North Africa region different? 

      Martinez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; Márquez-Ramos, Laura Wiley (2018)
      This paper aims to analyse whether a higher quality of economic governance rewards economic performance and facilitates the integration of the Middle East and North Africa region into the world economy. A gravity model of ...
    • closedAccess   Maritime Connectivity, maritime traffic of containers and international competitiveness 

      Dellá Lluch, Paula Universitat Jaume I (2015-06-15)
      Nowadays containerization in shipping is the most representative possibility for the maritime traffic of goods. But the container is not transported by itself; it needs the means of transport adapted to move it around ...
    • closedAccess   Robot adoption and export performance: Firm-level evidence from Spain 

      Alguacil, Maite; LO TURCO, ALESSIA; Martinez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada Elsevier (2022-06-02)
      Export activities are crucial for firm performance. Existing evidence shows that technology adoption is an essential determinant of firm competitiveness. Nevertheless, scarce attention has been devoted to robotisation, a ...
    • openAccess   The Export Strategy and SMEs Employment Resilience During Slump Periods 

      Aparicio-Pérez, Daniel; Calatayud , Carolina; ROCHINA BARRACHINA, MARIA ENGRACIA De Gruyter (2021-12-31)
      The Spanish economy was the most hit by the Great Recession. It suffered a greater decrease in the gross domestic product (GDP) (affecting especially internal demand). However, it suffered a greater increase in exports ...
    • openAccess   The RCEP and its consequences on international trade, the US-China trade war and the Asia-Pacific geopolitical scene 

      Vivas Soriano, Paula Universitat Jaume I (2022-07-04)
      The Regional Economic Comprehensive Partnership (RCEP) is the newest free trade agreement introduced in international trade. Led by China, the RCEP dismantles more than 90% of tariffs between its member states. Integrating ...