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African Asylum Seekers in Europe: The Interplay between Foreign Aid and Governance in Origin Countries
Ripollés, Jordi; Martinez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada Springer (2021-12-28)This paper empirically investigates the effects of governance quality on the num‑ ber of African asylum seekers in Europe over the period 1996–2018 and evaluates the extent to which official development aid acts as a ... -
Are the transport fuel retail markets regionally integrated in Spain? Evidence from price transmission
Balaguer, Jacint; Ripollés, Jordi Elsevier (2014-10)In this paper we explore whether the Spanish retail fuel markets are integrated at the regional level. We perform a comparative analysis of the transmission of international wholesale fuel prices to retail fuel prices. Our ... -
Asymmetric fuel price responses under heterogeneity
Balaguer, Jacint; Ripollés, Jordi Elsevier (2016-02)We explore the effect of cross-sectional aggregation of data on estimation and test of asymmetric retail fuel price responses to wholesale price shocks. The analysis is performed on data collected daily from individual ... -
Building a panel data set on fuel stations located in the Spanish regional areas of Madrid and Barcelona
Balaguer, Jacint; Ripollés, Jordi Elsevier (2016)The data described in this article were collected daily over the period June 10, 2010, to November 25, 2012, from the website of the Spanish Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism. The database includes information about ... -
Disentangling the importance of international border effects. Some evidence from Portugal–Spain based on diesel retailers
Balaguer, Jacint; Ripollés, Jordi Elsevier (2018-06)This paper takes into consideration that, in the presence of cross-region heterogeneity in the distribution of within-region price differentials, the impact of borders can be much smaller than those suggested by the empirical ... -
Do classes of gas stations contribute differently to fuel prices? Evidence to foster effective competition in Spain
Balaguer, Jacint; Ripollés, Jordi Elsevier (2020-04)Despite the relatively large number of gas stations reached in Spain after decades of sectorial reforms, pre-tax fuel prices in the country remain systematically among the highest in the EU. The literature provides evidence ... -
Does multimarket contact affect prices in the retail fuel industry? First empirical evidence
Balaguer, Jacint; Ripollés, Jordi Elsevier (2020-12-09)Although multimarket competition is a fairly common characteristic in the retail fuel industry, its effect on the corresponding prices remains unexplored. By using a large dataset of service stations in Spain, a first set ... -
Ejercicios y casos prácticos con datos de corte transversal para la iniciación a la econometría
Ripollés, Jordi; Martinez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; Alguacil, Maite Universitat Jaume I (2020) -
Environmental tax convergence and interdependence in the european union
Ripollés, Jordi; Vidal-Meliá, Lidia Universidad de Huelva (2022)This paper empirically analyzes the convergence and interdependence of environmental taxes in EU-28 from 1998 to 2018. Our results evidence a lack of European integration and reveal a group of converging countries ... -
Examining the stability of the long-run relationship between energy and GDP in the presence of an industrialization process
Ripollés, Jordi; Balaguer, Jacint Taylor & Francis (2016)In this paper we examine the extent to which the relationship between energy consumption and real GDP can be affected by an effective economic development policy based on industrialization. The Spanish Stabilization and ... -
Exploring the life of fuel price responses in retail markets. The effect of cross-sectional aggregation
Balaguer, Jacint; Ripollés, Jordi Elsevier (2018-08)Empirical studies on vertical price transmission in retail fuel markets commonly use average group data of petrol stations. In this paper a simulation approach is employed to illustrate that, in this case, the persistence ... -
Foreign trade and economic growth in Spain (1900–2012): the role of energy imports
Balaguer, Jacint; Florica, Tatiana; Ripollés, Jordi Springer International Publishing (2015)We take a long-term perspective (1900–2012) to examine the causal relationship between foreign trade and economic growth for Spain. Results from both Johansen’s (J Econ Dyn Control 12:231–254, 1988) and Toda and Yamamoto’s ... -
¿El producto interior bruto es un buen indicador del bienestar de los ciudadanos?. Una comparativa entre España e Italia
Colasante, Annarita; Ripollés, Jordi Generalitat Valenciana: Comité economic i social de la Comunitat Valenciana (2018) -
Testing for price response asymmetries in the Spanish fuel market. New evidence from daily data
Balaguer, Jacint; Ripollés, Jordi Elsevier (2012)In this work we use daily data to examine pattern asymmetries in the speed of transmission of international wholesale oil prices to Spanish retail fuel prices. Results are robust to two alternative specifications of an ... -
The desertion of rich countries and the mutual support of the poor ones: preferential lending agreements among the PIGS
Vidal-Tomás, David; Tedeschi, Gabriele; Ripollés, Jordi Elsevier (2019-08-09)By using the BIS data, we analyze the evolution of credit relationships among banks of the Euro-zone during the pre-crisis period (2006Q1–2007Q4), the global financial crisis (2008Q1–2010Q4) and the debt sovereign crisis ... -
The dynamics pattern of price dispersion in retail fuel markets
Balaguer, Jacint; Ripollés, Jordi Elsevier (2018-08)This paper empirically investigates the dynamics of price dispersion in retail fuel markets as a response to the corresponding wholesale price changes. For this purpose we take advantage ...