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Exports and governance: Is the Middle East and North Africa region different?
(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 ...
What Explains Indirect Exports of Goods and Services in Eastern Europe and Central Asia?
(Springer, 2018-05)
This paper investigates the determinants of indirect exporting, using firm-
level data for 27 countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Indirect exporting
depends on a combination of fixed and variable trade cost ...
Oil prices and unemployment in the UK before and after the crisis: A Bayesian VAR approach. A note.
(Elsevier, 2018)
The aim of this paper is to analyse the role of oil price movements in the
evolution of unemployment in the UK, accounting for asymmetric effects.
Distinguishing between positive and negative innovations in oil prices ...
Fiscal consumption and private consumption in Europe: what have we learned?
(Taylor and Francis, 2022)
In this paper we contribute to the long literature on how fiscal policy affects the real economy. In particular, we focus on how government consumption affects private consumption for a pool of European economies. We ...
Do classes of gas stations contribute differently to fuel prices? Evidence to foster effective competition in Spain
(Elsevier, 2020-04)
Despite the relatively large number of gas stations reached in Spain after decades of sectorial reforms, pre-tax fuel prices in the country remain systematically among the highest in the EU. The literature provides evidence ...
Moving ideas across borders: Foreign inventors, patents and FDI
(Wiley, 2022-05)
This paper explores the link between innovation, migration and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) empirically within a theoretically consistent framework. It analyses how migrant inventors enhance multinational firms' adaptive ...
Inflation targeting or exchange rate targeting: Which framework supports the goal of price stability in emerging market economies?
(Public Library of Science, 2018)
The paper investigates and compares the relationship between inflation and inflation uncertainty
under inflation targeting and, alternatively, a conventional fixed exchange rate system,
for a group of emerging countries. ...
Real exchange rate misalignments in CEECs: Have they hindered growth?
(Springer, 2019-07-16)
We study the impact of exchange rate misalignment on economic activity in nine Central and Eastern European economies. Exchange rate misalignments are computed from country-specific long-run exchange rate relationships ...
The Impact of Immigrant Diversity on Wages. The Spanish Experience
(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 ...
Residential energy consumption: A convergence analysis across Chinese regions
(Elsevier, 2017-02)
The process of urbanization and the raise of living standards in China have led an increasing trend in the patterns of residential consumption. Projections for the population growth rate in urban areas do not paint a very ...