• openAccess   Can trust effects on development be generalized? A response by quantile 

      Peiró-Palomino, Jesús; Tortosa-Ausina, Emili Elsevier (2013)
      While the beneficial effects of social trust on economic performance have been largely recognized, we analyze whether these effects can be generalized for economies at different stages of economic development. Contrary to ...
    • closedAccess   Does social capital matter for European regional growth? 

      Forte Deltell, Anabel; Peiró-Palomino, Jesús; Tortosa-Ausina, Emili Elsevier (2015)
      This paper analyzes the role of different elements of social capital in economic growth for a sample of 85 European regions during the period 1995–2008. Despite the remarkable progress that social capital and European ...
    • closedAccess   Does university performance have an economic payoff for home regions? Evidence for the Spanish provinces 

      Crespo, Joan; Peiró-Palomino, Jesús; Tortosa-Ausina, Emili Routledge (2021-12-12)
      This paper analyses the impact of the university system performance on labour productivity growth for Spanish provinces during the period 2009–2016, showing a general positive link. These results enrich the debate on the ...
    • closedAccess   European regional convergence revisited: the role of intangible assets 

      Peiró-Palomino, Jesús Springer Verlag (2016)
      The contributions evaluating convergence across European regions are now numerous and take a wide variety of approaches. However, evidence for the most recent years is still scant, and studies considering the role of ...
    • closedAccess   Growth in a time of external imbalances 

      Camarero, Mariam; Peiró-Palomino, Jesús; Tamarit, Cecilio Elsevier (2018-12-28)
      Globalization and financial integration have increased in the last three decades giving rise to cumulated large external imbalances. The question we address in this paper is whether economic growth ...
    • closedAccess   Informal, formal institutions and credit: complements or substitutes? 

      Cruz-García, Paula; Peiró-Palomino, Jesús Cambridge University Press (2019-08)
      This paper analyses the relationship between informal institutions measured by social trust and the provision of private credit. Research on the trust–finance relationship abounds, although most of it is confined to the ...
    • openAccess   Is full banking integration desirable? 

      Arribas, Iván; Peiró-Palomino, Jesús; Tortosa-Ausina, Emili Elsevier (2017-08)
      We analyze the links between banking integration and economic development for a sample of OECD countries. We measure banking integration considering indicators that merge not only openness but also connectedness with ...
    • openAccess   Is Social Capital Green? Cultural Features and Environmental Performance in the European Union 

      Peiró-Palomino, Jesús; Picazo-Tadeo, Andrés J Wiley (2018-02-13)
      This paper analyses the r elationship between social capita l and environmental performance in the European Union. In a first stage, environmental performance is measured by an index of eco - efficiency at ...
    • closedAccess   Measuring well-being in Colombian departments. The role of geography and demography 

      Peiró-Palomino, Jesús; Picazo-Tadeo, Andrés J; Tortosa-Ausina, Emili Elsevier (2021-12)
      This paper provides a composite indicator of well-being for the 33 Colombian departments in the year 2016. The indicator is built by adapting the well-known OECD Better Life Index to the regional level, and includes the ...
    • closedAccess   OECD: one or many?. Ranking countries with a composite well-being indicator 

      Peiró-Palomino, Jesús; Picazo-Tadeo, Andrés J Springer Verlag (2017)
      This paper provides a composite indicator of well-being for the 35 OECD countries, South Africa, Russia and Brazil for the period 2013-2016, considering data on ten different wellbeing domains from the OECD Better Life ...
    • openAccess   La plataforma Socrative como herramienta de aprendizaje: Un a aplicación a la asignatura Métodos Cuantitativos 

      Narbón-Perpiñá, Isabel; Peiró-Palomino, Jesús Universidad de Zaragoza (2018-02)
      Los métodos cuantita tivos proporcionan una herramienta de análisis esencial y ap licable a la práctica totalidad de las ra mas de la economía, incluyendo la Economía P ública. El análisis de las ...
    • openAccess   Quality of government and economic growth at the municipal level: Evidence from Spain 

      Balaguer-Coll, Maria Teresa; Narbón-Perpiñá, Isabel; Peiró-Palomino, Jesús; Tortosa-Ausina, Emili Wiley (2021-07-21)
      This paper analyzes the relationship between government efficiency—an important dimension of quality of government—and economic growth at the municipal level in 1,820 Spanish municipalities during the period 2008–2015. At ...
    • openAccess   Regional income convergence in Colombia: population, space, and long-run dynamics 

      Peiró-Palomino, Jesús; Prieto-Bustos, William Orlando; Tortosa-Ausina, Emili Springer (2023)
      We examine the trajectory of regional income dynamics in Colombia. Using data on all 33 Colombian departments from 2000 to 2016, we employ extensions of (spatial) Markov chains, space-time mobility measures, along with a ...
    • closedAccess   Regional well-being in the OECD 

      Peiró-Palomino, Jesús Springer (2018-08)
      This paper analyses convergence in well-being across 395 OECD regions in the period 2000–2014 using data from the Regional Well-being Dataset. It is widely known that well-being is a concept that ...
    • openAccess   The cluster is not flat. Uneven impacts of brokerage roles on the innovative performance of firms 

      Martínez-Cháfer, Luis; Molina-Morales, F. Xavier; Peiró-Palomino, Jesús Elsevier (2018)
      This paper investigates whether and to what extent individual firms improve their innovation from behaving as brokers connecting other actors in the Spanish ceramic tile cluster. The effects of the brokerage roles are ...
    • closedAccess   The geography of social capital and innovation in the European Union 

      Peiró-Palomino, Jesús Wiley (2019)
      This paper assesses the role of the associational activity dimension of social capital in regional innovation for 257 EU 28 regions in the pre‐crisis (2000–2007) and the crisis (2008–2012) period. The analysis is carried ...
    • openAccess   Well-being and the Great Recession in Spain 

      Peiró-Palomino, Jesús; Perugini, Francesco; Picazo-Tadeo, Andrés J Taylor & Francis (2019)
      This letter assesses the impact of the Great Recession on well-being in Spanish provinces using two alternative composite indicators of objective well-being that include somewhat different dimensions. Whereas the crisis ...