• openAccess   Acuerdos de integración económica en Latinoamérica: efectos sobre los márgenes de comercio 

      Florensa, Luis Marcelo; Márquez-Ramos, Laura; Recalde, María Luisa; Barone, María Victoria Banco Central del Uruguay (2013-05)
      This paper studies the effects of economic integration in Latin America on the margins of trade. The analysis is performed on eleven member countries of the Latin American Integration Association (LAIA). In order to do ...
    • openAccess   Adaptive expectations versus rational expectations: Evidence from the lab 

      Colasante, Annarita; Palestrini, Antonio; Russo, Alberto; Gallegati, Mauro Elsevier (2017-10)
      The aim of the present work is to shed light on the extensive debate about expectations in financial markets. We analyze the behaviors of subjects in an experimental environment in which it is possible to observe expectations ...
    • openAccess   Another perspective on autocorrelation in intensive longitudinal data: Polynomial (straight line, quadratic…) ‘vs’ autoregressive models 

      Rosel, Jesús F.; Puchol, Sara; Flor Arasil, Patricia; Machancoses, Francisco H.; Canales, Juan J. (2023)
      While the theory of longitudinal data analysis (LDA) has a solid foundation, there are instances where the assumptions of the analytical model remain unverified. Failure to examine autocorrelation in residuals (ACR) can ...
    • closedAccess   Determinants of CO2 emissions in the Mediterranean Countries 

      Andreu Dossantos, Lucas Universitat Jaume I (2015-07-15)
      Population growth, income per capita and production structure: In this paper we will analyze the relationship between CO2 emissions in 25 countries of the Union for the Mediterranean and the following variables. The ...
    • openAccess   Determinants of international migration to the Spanish Regions 

      Gil González, Juan David Universitat Jaume I (2021-07-14)
      This dissertation explains using a log-log panel data model, why a regular immigrant tends to choose a given Spanish region as destination. The major factors considered in host communities are related to policy, economic ...
    • openAccess   Does Aid Promote Donor Exports? Commercial Interest versus Instrumental Philanthropy 

      Martinez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas; Parra Robles, María Dolores; Klasen, Stephan John Wiley & Sons (2014)
      This paper investigates by means of advanced panel data techniques whether bilateral aid has been successful in promoting bilateral exports to recipient countries during the period 1988–2007 and to what extent changes in ...
    • closedAccess   Dollarization in Ecuador: effects on foreign trade 

      Fabregat Centelles, Arnau Universitat Jaume I (2016-11-25)
      This paper analyzes the foreign trade of Ecuador from 1995 to 2015 and tries to show how the dollarization of the country has affected such trade by the gravity model. In order to see how the variables used in this study ...
    • closedAccess   Economic growth: do institutions matter? 

      García López, Zulema Universitat Jaume I (2019-06-19)
      The aim of this paper is determining the importance of institutional quality on economic growth. Using a panel data estimated by Fixed Effects, the relation and impact of neoclassical control variables and institutional ...
    • openAccess   Exporting and productivity: evidence for Egypt and Morocco 

      Martinez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada Taylor & Francis (2020)
      This paper investigates the link between exporting and importing activities and firm performance using a rich dataset on Egyptian and Moroccan firms. We test the export premium, self-selection and learning-by-exporting ...
    • openAccess   Exports and governance: Is the Middle East and North Africa region different? 

      Martinez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; Márquez-Ramos, Laura Wiley (2018)
      This paper aims to analyse whether a higher quality of economic governance rewards economic performance and facilitates the integration of the Middle East and North Africa region into the world economy. A gravity model of ...
    • openAccess   External imbalances from a GVAR perspective 

      Camarero, Mariam; Carrion-i-Silvestre, Josep Lluís; Tamarit, Cecilio Wiley (2021-03-16)
      We study the drivers governing external disequilibria through a Global VAR (GVAR) analysis applied to a group of 24 countries during the period 1972–2017. The GVAR methodology is particularly well suited for our research ...
    • openAccess   Free Trade Agreements, Institutions and the Exports of EasternPartnership Countries 

      Gylfason, Thorvaldur; Martinez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; Per Wijkman, Magnus Wiley (2015-06)
      Following popular protests at home and the fall of the government, Ukraine reversed course andjoined Georgia and Moldova in signing Association Agreements in June 2014. This article hastwo main aims. First, using a gravity ...
    • openAccess   Freedom of the press, inequality and environmental policy 

      Martinez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; Phillips, Jennifer Cambridge University Press (2020-12-01)
      This paper contributes to the literature on the determinants of environmental standards by studying the role of income inequality and freedom of press. Given that evidence of the environmental Kuznets curve has only been ...
    • openAccess   Is Aid for Trade Effective? A Panel Quantile Regression Approach 

      Martinez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas; Rehwald, Kai Wiley (2017)
      This paper investigates whether Aid for Trade (AfT) leads to greater exports in recipient countries. Using panel data and panel quantile regression techniques, our results suggest that total AfT disbursements promote the ...
    • closedAccess   Migrations and climate change in MENA region 

      Requena Vicens, María Universitat Jaume I (2019-06-17)
      This paper explores the extent to which the number of migrations in the MENA region can be related to climatic variations caused by climate change. A model through which migration intensifies with increases in average ...
    • openAccess   On the heterogeneous link between public debt and economic growth 

      Gomez-Puig, Marta; Sosvilla-Rivero, Simon; Martinez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada Elsevier (2022-02-12)
      We use panel data for 115 countries over the period 1995–2016 to model the heterogeneity of the debt-growth nexus along with the underlying factors that might explain it. The grouped fixed effect (GFE) estimator is used ...
    • openAccess   Searching for the optimal territorial structure: the case of Spanish provincial councils 

      Narbón-Perpiñá, Isabel; Balaguer-Coll, Maria Teresa; Prior, Diego; Tortosa-Ausina, Emili Taylor and Francis Group (2019)
      Modern states are organized in multi-level governance structures with economic and political authorities dispersed across them. However, although there is relatively widespread consensus that this form of organization ...
    • closedAccess   The effect of economic integration and institutional quality of trade agreements on trade margins: evidence for Latin America 

      Márquez-Ramos, Laura; Florensa, Luis Marcelo; Recalde, María Luisa Springer (2015)
      This paper studies the effects of economic integration, as well as the institutional quality of existing trade agreements in Latin America, on the margins of trade. The analysis is performed on bilateral exports of goods ...
    • closedAccess   The effect on productivity of foreign direct investment: The Spanish Experience 

      Eixea Bernat, Adrián Universitat Jaume I (2014)
      The aim of this work is to analyze whether the presence of foreign companies in Spain increases productivity and added value of the host industries. To do that, we estimate an econometric panel data model across sectors ...
    • openAccess   The Euro and the CFA Franc: Evidence of Sectoral Trade Effects 

      Martinez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada Springer (2019)
      This paper estimates a gravity model of trade to evaluate the trade effects of the Euro on sectoral trade within the Eurozone (EZ), the CFA Franc Zone (CFA) and between the EZ and the CFA, when CFA countries acquired fixed ...