• openAccess   Capital goods imports and long-run growth: Is the Chinese experience relevant to developing countries? 

      Herrerías Talamantes, María Jesús; Orts, Vicente Elsevier (2013)
      In this paper, we analyze the role played by capital goods imports in the long-run growth of developing countries. We focus in the case of the Chinese economy in the last few decades. We find evidence that the ratio of ...
    • 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   Equipment investment, output and productivity in China 

      Herrerías Talamantes, María Jesús; Orts, Vicente Springer-Verlag (2012-02)
      At the beginning of the 1990s, J. Bradford De Long and Lawrence H. Summers highlighted in a series of influential articles that there were good reasons and quantitative evidence to support the point of view that machinery ...
    • openAccess   Firm Heterogeneity and Export Activity of European Firms: A Quantile Analysis 

      Orts, Vicente; Martí Arnau, Josep Sociedad de Economía Mundial (2018)
      This paper examines the extent to which firms’ characteristics are related to export activity behaviour. Using a dataset comprised of harmonized and detailed firm-level data from six European countries ...
    • openAccess   Firm heterogeneity and the market scope of European multinational activity 

      Alguacil, Maite; Martí Arnau, Josep; Orts, Vicente Elsevier (2017-09)
      This paper examines the relationship between the characteristics of European firms and the market scope of their international activity. We show, theoretically, that when markets can be served by exports or through foreign ...
    • closedAccess   Imports and growth in China 

      Herrerías Talamantes, María Jesús; Orts, Vicente Elsevier (2011-11)
      In this paper, we analyze the role played by imports and investment on labor productivity and output inChina from 1964 to 2004. In doing so, our analysis focuses on the role of technological progress incorporated into the ...
    • 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   Is the Export-led Growth Hypothesis Enough to Account for China’s Growth? 

      Herrerías Talamantes, María Jesús; Orts, Vicente Wiley-Blackwell (2010-07-13)
      The purpose of the present paper is to analyze whether the expansion of the Chinese economy is based on an export-led growth effect or, on the contrary, Chinese development between 1964 and 2004 was driven by investment. ...
    • openAccess   Location Choice of Spanish Multinational Firms in Developing and Transition Economies 

      Martí Arnau, Josep; Alguacil, Maite; Orts, Vicente Taylor & Francis (2017-04)
      In this paper, we use firm-level data to investigate how different host country characteristics affect the decision of Spanish multinational firms to locate in developing and transition countries, and whether these ...
    • openAccess   La primera crisi del segle XXI: causes, efectes i perspectives 

      Orts, Vicente Agrupació Borrianenca de Cultura (2012)
      The current economic crisis is the longest and deepest since the Great Depression of the 1930s. It began with the excesses of the banking sector in the USA and subprime mortgages, but has quickly become a systemic crisis. ...
    • closedAccess   Sectoral scope and colocalisation of Spanish manufacturing industries 

      Casanova, Marta R.; Orts, Vicente; Albert Ortiz, José Miguel Springer Verlag (2016)
      In this paper, we use distance-based methods, specifically a slight variation of Ripley’s K function and a bivariate generalisation of this function, to explore the detailed location pattern of the Spanish manufacturing ...
    • openAccess   Spatial location patterns of Spanish manufacturing firms 

      Albert Ortiz, José Miguel; Casanova, Marta R.; Orts, Vicente Wiley-Blackwell (2012-03)
      In this paper, we evaluate the spatial location patterns of Spanish manufacturing firms in each industry. We use a distance-based method, Ripley’s K function, which allows us to treat space as continuous. With ‘complete ...
    • openAccess   The Driving Forces behind China’s Growth 

      Orts, Vicente; Herrerías Talamantes, María Jesús Wiley (2010)
      The main objective of this paper is to disentangling the determinants of the Chinese economic growth that occurred from 1965 to 2000. We have explored, first, the time series properties of the growth rates of GDP and labour ...
    • closedAccess   The driving forces behind China’s growth 

      Herrerías Talamantes, María Jesús; Orts, Vicente Wiley (2011-01)
      The main objective of this article is to disentangle the determinants of the Chinese economic growth that occurred from 1965 to 2000. We have explored, first, the time series properties of the growth rates of gross domestic ...
    • openAccess   Weighted convergence and regional clusters across China 

      Herrerías Talamantes, María Jesús; Orts, Vicente; Tortosa-Ausina, Emili Wiley-Blackwell (2011)
      We analyse per capita GDP convergence among 28 Chinese provinces between 1952 and 2005 using the distribution dynamics approach. Compared with previous studies, we provide a more complete view by including some additional ...
    • openAccess   What Drives the Location of Spanish Multinationals in Developing and Transition Countries? 

      Alguacil, Maite; Martí Arnau, Josep; Orts, Vicente Wiley (2018-01)
      In this paper, we investigate the location determinants of Spanish multinational firms in developing and transition economies. We pay particular attention to the role played by market potential and agglomeration economies ...