• openAccess   African Asylum Seekers in Europe: The Interplay between Foreign Aid and Governance in Origin Countries 

      Ripollés, Jordi; Martinez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada Springer (2021-12-28)
      This paper empirically investigates the effects of governance quality on the num‑ ber of African asylum seekers in Europe over the period 1996–2018 and evaluates the extent to which official development aid acts as a ...
    • openAccess   Determinants of FDI for Spanish regions: evidence using stock data 

      Camarero, Mariam; Montolio, Laura; Tamarit, Cecilio Springer (2020-12-01)
      After decades of academic debate on the factors that determine FDI, the discussion still remains open. This article empirically investigates the determinants of FDI activity using Spanish regional data (NUTS 2) for the ...
    • openAccess   Does Aid Promote Donor Exports? Commercial Interest versus Instrumental Philanthropy 

      Martinez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas; Parra Robles, María Dolores; Klasen, Stephan 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 ...
    • openAccess   Exports and governance: Is the Middle East and North Africa region different? 

      Martinez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; Márquez-Ramos, Laura Wiley (2018)
      This paper aims to analyse whether a higher quality of economic governance rewards economic performance and facilitates the integration of the Middle East and North Africa region into the world economy. A gravity model of ...
    • openAccess   Exports and governance: the role of private voluntary agrifood standards 

      Fiankor, Dela-Dem Doe; Martinez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; Brümmer, Bernhard Wiley (2019)
      The empirical evidence that institutional differences across countries affect bilateral trade is robust. The crucial question remains how countries can enhance trade amid these differences. In this article, we measure the ...
    • closedAccess   Migrants, regulations, and trade 

      Groizard, Jose L.; Martín-Montaner, Joan Elsevier (2023-01-10)
      Existing evidence indicates that immigration helps to overcome informal barriers to trade, but little is known about whether this effect holds for trade frictions coming from importing countries’ regulations. This paper ...