• closedAccess   Does university performance have an economic payoff for home regions? Evidence for the Spanish provinces 

      Crespo, Joan; Peiró-Palomino, Jesús; Tortosa-Ausina, Emili Routledge (2021-12-12)
      This paper analyses the impact of the university system performance on labour productivity growth for Spanish provinces during the period 2009–2016, showing a general positive link. These results enrich the debate on the ...
    • 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   Measuring well-being in Colombian departments. The role of geography and demography 

      Peiró-Palomino, Jesús; Picazo-Tadeo, Andrés J; Tortosa-Ausina, Emili Elsevier (2021-12)
      This paper provides a composite indicator of well-being for the 33 Colombian departments in the year 2016. The indicator is built by adapting the well-known OECD Better Life Index to the regional level, and includes the ...
    • openAccess   On the drivers of successful crowdfunding: The case of the platform Verkami 

      Martínez-Cháfer, Luis; Molina-Morales, F. Xavier; Peiró-Palomino, Jesús SAGE (2021)
      This article analyzes the determinants of successful crowdfunding initiatives using a sample of 5,251 projects from the reward-based Spanish platform Verkami. In contrast to most of the literature that has measured success ...
    • openAccess   Quality of government and economic growth at the municipal level: Evidence from Spain 

      Balaguer-Coll, Maria Teresa; Narbón-Perpiñá, Isabel; Peiró-Palomino, Jesús; Tortosa-Ausina, Emili Wiley (2021-07-21)
      This paper analyzes the relationship between government efficiency—an important dimension of quality of government—and economic growth at the municipal level in 1,820 Spanish municipalities during the period 2008–2015. At ...
    • openAccess   Regional income convergence in Colombia: population, space, and long-run dynamics 

      Peiró-Palomino, Jesús; Prieto-Bustos, William Orlando; Tortosa-Ausina, Emili Springer (2023)
      We examine the trajectory of regional income dynamics in Colombia. Using data on all 33 Colombian departments from 2000 to 2016, we employ extensions of (spatial) Markov chains, space-time mobility measures, along with a ...
    • openAccess   The cluster is not flat. Uneven impacts of brokerage roles on the innovative performance of firms 

      Martínez-Cháfer, Luis; Molina-Morales, F. Xavier; Peiró-Palomino, Jesús Elsevier (2018)
      This paper investigates whether and to what extent individual firms improve their innovation from behaving as brokers connecting other actors in the Spanish ceramic tile cluster. The effects of the brokerage roles are ...