• openAccess   Clusters in foreign-born vs. native self-employment in Europe: do we look alike? 

      Cuadros, Ana; Cuestas, Juan Carlos; Mourelle, Estefanía Taylor and Francis (2022)
      In this paper, we analyse the existence of clusters in self-employment rates, segregating by place of birth, i.e. native vs foreign-born, in a group of 17 European countries. The analysis suggests that natives behave ...
    • openAccess   Does foreign ownership promote environmental protection? Evidence from firm-level data 

      Balaguer, Jacint; Cuadros, Ana; García-Quevedo, Jose Springer (2022)
      This paper examines the role played by foreign ownership as a determinant of the environmental behaviour of Spanish manufacturing firms. Unlike previous studies, our analysis distinguishes between current expenditure on ...
    • openAccess   Energy intensity and investment ownership across Chinese provinces 

      Herrerías Talamantes, María Jesús; Cuadros, Ana; Orts, Vicente Elsevier (2013)
      The main objective of this paper is to investigate whether openness and investment ownership are key factors in explaining the diffusion of energy-saving technologies in China. Compared with previous studies, the novel ...
    • openAccess   Foreign versus Indigenous Innovation and Energy Intensity: Further Research across Chinese Regions 

      Herrerías Talamantes, María Jesús; Cuadros, Ana; Luo, Dan Elsevier (2016-01-15)
      The aim of this work is to analyze the role played by both foreign and indigenous innovation on energy intensity as well as the possible interactions between them across 30 Chinese regions. In addition, we disaggregate ...
    • openAccess   Globalisation: Recent traits and challenges 

      Cuadros, Ana; Ordóñez, Javier Wiley (2019)
      This special issue gathers together twelve papers that revisit a range of core topics in the field of international economics. These papers were presented at the XIX Conference on International Economics (CIE) held in ...
    • openAccess   Homeward Bound FDI: Are Migrants a Bridge over Trouble Finance? 

      Cuadros, Ana; Martín-Montaner, Joan; Paniagua, Jordi Elsevier (2016-06)
      Migrants can lower cross-border investment barriers, help investors by providing information about their homeland and reduce transaction costs by sharing expertise on regulations, customs and procedures. In addition to ...
    • closedAccess   Inward FDI and growth: The role of macroeconomic and institutional environment 

      Alguacil, Maite; Cuadros, Ana; Orts, Vicente Elsevier (2011)
      This paper contributes to the discussion on the role played by the absorptive capacities within host economies in their ability to grow and to exploit FDI efficiently. The outcomes for a sample of developing economies ...
    • openAccess   Migration and FDI: the role of job skills 

      Cuadros, Ana; Martín-Montaner, Joan; Paniagua, Jordi Elsevier (2018-10)
      Using a multi-country gravity framework, this paper models and quantifies the relevance of migrants' job position in fostering Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). High-skilled migrants are defined as those individuals born ...
    • openAccess   Moving ideas across borders: Foreign inventors, patents and FDI 

      Cuadros, Ana; Navas, Antonio; Paniagua, Jordi Wiley (2022-05)
      This paper explores the link between innovation, migration and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) empirically within a theoretically consistent framework. It analyses how migrant inventors enhance multinational firms' adaptive ...
    • openAccess   Self-employment convergence in Europe: The role of migration 

      Cuadros, Ana; Cuestas, Juan Carlos; Martín-Montaner, Joan PLOS (2021-04-22)
      This paper attempts to identify patterns of convergence in the rates of self-employment (SE) for both foreign-born and natives in a sample of 17 European countries during the period 1999–2018. A distinction is made between ...