• openAccess   Export Structure Upgrading and Economic Growth in the Western Balkan Countries 

      Shimbov, Bojan; Alguacil, Maite; Suárez-Burguet, Celestino Taylor & Francis (2019)
      In this paper, we seek to analyze the impact that the ability to produce more sophisticated goods has on the economic performance of the Western Balkan region and to determine the factors fostering this process. To do ...
    • 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 ...
    • openAccess   Fragmentation and parts and components trade in the Western Balkan countries 

      Shimbov, Bojan; Alguacil, Maite; Suárez-Burguet, Celestino Taylor & Francis (2013)
      As a consequence of the increasing globalization and integration of the world’s markets, there has been an intensive process of international fragmentation of the production over the last few decades. This phenomenon ...
    • openAccess   International Production Networks and Economic Growth: The Case of the Western Balkan Countries 

      Shimbov, Bojan; Alguacil, Maite; Suárez-Burguet, Celestino Taylor & Francis (2016)
      The globalization of the world economy has given rise to new trade patterns through the intensification of international production networks (IPNs). This phenomenon has enabled countries to undertake more in-depth ...
    • 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   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   Migration in Spain: the role of cultural diversity revisited 

      Alguacil, Maite; Alamá Sabater, Luisa Cogitatio Press (2021-10-28)
      In this article, we analyze to what extent cultural diversity brought about by immigrants affects economic activity of the Spanish provinces. To do that, we use panel data techniques that treat cultural diversity as an ...
    • openAccess   La modelización en la Econometría 

      Alguacil, Maite; Jiménez-Fernández, Eduardo Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (2017)
      El entorno econ´omico actual, as´ı como las bajas calificaciones obtenidas por nuestros/as estudiantes en los ´ultimos a˜nos, hace necesaria la incorporaci´on a la docencia de nuevos m´etodos de ense˜nanza m´as acordes con ...
    • closedAccess   New patterns in the locational choice of immigrants in Spain 

      Alamá Sabater, Luisa; Alguacil, Maite; Bernat Martí, Joan Serafí Taylor & Francis (2017)
      During recent years, Spain has experienced an important revolution in its migration flows. With the 2008–2013 Spanish financial crisis, the model of economic growth that attracted a large number of foreign people disappeared, ...
    • closedAccess   Robot adoption and export performance: Firm-level evidence from Spain 

      Alguacil, Maite; LO TURCO, ALESSIA; Martinez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada Elsevier (2022-06-02)
      Export activities are crucial for firm performance. Existing evidence shows that technology adoption is an essential determinant of firm competitiveness. Nevertheless, scarce attention has been devoted to robotisation, a ...
    • openAccess   The Impact of Immigrant Diversity on Wages. The Spanish Experience 

      Delgado Gómez-Flors, María; Alguacil, Maite MDPI (2018)
      The massive waves of migration that have emerged as part of the recent globalization process have attracted increasing attention in the field of economic geography. Traditionally, empirical research on this issue has ...
    • 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 ...