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The Driving Forces behind China’s Growth
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 ... -
Inward FDI and growth: The role of macroeconomic and institutional environment
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 ... -
Determinants of deep integration: examining socio-political factors
Springer Verlag (Germany) (2011)This research has three main aims: firstly, to empirically analyse the determinants of different levels ofintegration by re-examining the evidence presented by Baier and Bergstrand (Journal of International Economics ...
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Weighted convergence and regional clusters across China
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 ...
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Equipment investment, output and productivity in China
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 ...
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Spatial location patterns of Spanish manufacturing firms
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 ...
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Capital goods imports and long-run growth: Is the Chinese experience relevant to developing countries?
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 ...
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Energy intensity and investment ownership across Chinese provinces
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 ...
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The effect of maritime transport costs on the extensive and intensive margins: Evidence from the Europe–Asia trade
Palgrave Macmillan (2014)This article investigates the determinants of maritime trade. It focuses in particular on the extent to which variations in trade-related costs between Asia and Europe help to explain the surge in Euro–Asian trade in eight ...
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Dealing with an error correction model when trade balances are trend-stationary
Taylor & Francis (2014)The present research shows how one can deal with stationary plus trend trade balance variables in a trade model whenever the rest of the variables contain a unit root. Data are used in a monthly and a quarterly basis from ...
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Does Aid Promote Donor Exports? Commercial Interest versus Instrumental Philanthropy
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 ...
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A Panel Data Analysis of Trade Creation and Trade Diversion effects: The case of ASEAN-China Free Trade Area
Elsevier (2014-06)This study uses a theoretically justified gravity model of trade to examine the impact of the ASEAN–China Free Trade Agreement (ACFTA) on exports, focusing on trade creation and diversion effects. The model is tested on a ...
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Real unit labour costs in Eurozone countries: drivers and clusters
Springer Verlag (2015)We examine the trajectories of the real unit labour costs (RULCs) in a selection of Eurozone economies. Strong asymmetries in the convergence process of the RULCs and its components – real wages, capital intensity, and ...
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Energy use–GDP deterministic cointegration: progress towards EU-15 Kyoto targets
Taylor & Francis (2015)This article examines whether the energy consumption–GDP relationship is in long-term equilibrium for EU-15 countries. Unlike many previous works, we apply a nonlinear unit root test introduced by Kapetanios et al. (2003a) ...
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Foreign trade and economic growth in Spain (1900–2012): the role of energy imports
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 ...
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Unemployment Convergence in Central and Eastern European Countries: Driving Forces and Cluster Behavior
Taylor & Francis (2015)Employing a nonlinear logistic smooth transition autoregression system and comovement analysis, we find that the German business cycle has acted as a common driver affecting the cyclical behavior of unemployment rates in ...
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Relationship between logistics infraestructure and trade: Evidence from Spanish regional exports
Elsevier (2015-02)Geographical factors and transport infrastructure are two of the key determinants that influence international competitiveness. In this sense, the quality of such infrastructure and how widespread it is, the distribution ...
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La Calidad percibida de la Docencia Universitaria: ¿Son mejores Docentes los mejores Investigadores?
Universidad de Zaragoza (2015-02)We analyze the interaction between university professors’ teaching quality and their research and administrative activities. Our sample is an individual panel data set from a medium size public Spanish university. Although ...
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(How) Do research and administrative duties affect university professors teaching?
Taylor & Francis (2015-05)We analyse the interaction between university professors’ teaching quality and their research and administrative activities. Our sample is a high-quality individual panel data set from a medium-size public Spanish university ...
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Variable selection in the analysis of energy consumption-growth nexus
Copyright © 2015 Elsevier B.V (2015-10-30)There is abundant empirical literature that focuses on whether energy consumption is a critical driver of economic growth. The evolution of this literature has largely consisted of attempts to solve the problems and answer ...
