• closedAccess   Explaining local governments' cost efficiency: Controllable and uncontrollable factors 

      Narbón-Perpiñá, Isabel; Arribas, Iván; Balaguer-Coll, Maria Teresa; Tortosa-Ausina, Emili Elsevier (2020-05)
      Efficient and effective management of public resources is essential at all levels of government. This issue has gained momentum due to the strains that affected public sector finances after the onset of the 2007/08 crisis ...
    • openAccess   Is full banking integration desirable? 

      Arribas, Iván; Peiró-Palomino, Jesús; Tortosa-Ausina, Emili Elsevier (2017-08)
      We analyze the links between banking integration and economic development for a sample of OECD countries. We measure banking integration considering indicators that merge not only openness but also connectedness with ...
    • closedAccess   Trade integration in the European Union: Openness,interconnectedness, and distance 

      Arribas, Iván; Bensassi, Sami; Tortosa-Ausina, Emili Elsevier (2020)
      This article presents a set of indicators to measure regional trade integration, focusing on the case of the European Union. We propose measures of openness, connectedness and integration which are tuned to evaluate not ...