• openAccess   Does active management add value? New evidence from a quantile regression approach 

      Matallín Sáez, Juan Carlos; Soler-Dominguez, Amparo; Tortosa-Ausina, Emili Taylor & Francis (2019-06)
      While it has long been recognised that active management is an important issue in the area of mutual fund performance, little consensus has been reached about the value managers’ abilities can add. This study examines ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...