• openAccess   A new interpretation of the distance puzzle based on geographic neutrality 

      Arribas, Iván; Pérez García, Francisco; Tortosa-Ausina, Emili Clark University (2011-07)
      One of the most remarkable features of globalization is that advances in technology have contributed to reducing the costs of trade (e.g., transportation and communication costs) and thus have boosted international trade. ...
    • closedAccess   Explaining local governments' cost efficiency: Controllable and uncontrollable factors 

      Narbón-Perpiñá, Isabel; Arribas, Iván; Balaguer-Coll, Maria Teresa; Tortosa-Ausina, Emili Elsevier (2020-05)
      Efficient and effective management of public resources is essential at all levels of government. This issue has gained momentum due to the strains that affected public sector finances after the onset of the 2007/08 crisis ...
    • 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 ...
    • closedAccess   Measuring Globalization of International Trade: Theory and Evidence 

      Arribas, Iván; Pérez García, Francisco; Tortosa-Ausina, Emili Elsevier (2009)
      Measuring globalization requires a Standard of Perfect International Integration as a benchmark that a single world space would reach under conditions of geographic neutrality in international trade. We define this standard ...
    • openAccess   The determinants of international financial integration revisited: the role of networks and geographic neutrality 

      Arribas, Iván; Pérez García, Francisco; Tortosa-Ausina, Emili Walter de Gruyter (2011-01)
      Over the last two decades, the degree of international financial integration has increased substantially, becoming an important area of research for many financial economists. This paper explores the determinants of the ...
    • closedAccess   The dynamics of international trade integration: 1967–2004 

      Arribas, Iván; Pérez García, Francisco; Tortosa-Ausina, Emili Springer Verlag (2014)
      This article explores how trade integration has advanced over the last four decades and what the foreseeable future holds, among other related questions. To this end, we consider certain methods which have scarcely been ...
    • closedAccess   Trade integration in the European Union: Openness,interconnectedness, and distance 

      Arribas, Iván; Bensassi, Sami; Tortosa-Ausina, Emili Elsevier (2020)
      This article presents a set of indicators to measure regional trade integration, focusing on the case of the European Union. We propose measures of openness, connectedness and integration which are tuned to evaluate not ...