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Globalisation: Recent traits and challenges
(Wiley, 2019)
This special issue gathers together twelve papers that revisit a range of core topics in the field of international economics. These papers were presented at the XIX Conference on International Economics (CIE) held in ...
New patterns in the locational choice of immigrants in Spain
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)
During recent years, Spain has experienced an important revolution in its migration flows. With the 2008–2013 Spanish financial crisis, the model of economic growth that attracted a large number of foreign people disappeared, ...
Real unit labour costs in Eurozone countries: drivers and clusters
(Springer Verlag, 2015)
We examine the trajectories of the real unit labour costs (RULCs) in a selection of Eurozone economies. Strong asymmetries in the convergence process of the RULCs and its components – real wages, capital intensity, and ...
Location Choice of Spanish Multinational Firms in Developing and Transition Economies
(Taylor & Francis, 2017-04)
In this paper, we use firm-level data to investigate how different host country characteristics affect the decision of Spanish multinational firms to locate in developing and transition countries, and whether these ...
Understanding the Determinants of Economic Integration in Latin America
(Center for Economic Integration, Sejong University, 2017-09)
When signing or enhancing trade agreements with Latin America, political and
institutional factors play a more important role at present compared with their role in
the past. In addition, ...
Effects of Foreign Aid on Income through International Trade
(Cogitatio Press, 2019)
This article presents a review of recent studies that estimate the trade effects of foreign aid. It also provides new results
obtained using panel data techniques to estimate the direct effects of aid on international ...
Protecting health or protecting imports? Evidence from EU non-tariff measures
(Elsevier, 2018-01)
Non-tariff measures such as food safety standards are aimed at protecting consumers' health but may also be used as protectionism tool to limit imports. This study investigates the protectionist intent of EU food safety ...
The interaction between housing prices and housing credit: evidence from a country with rapid credit accumulation
(Emerald, 2020-05-15)
Purpose – This paper aims to investigate the mutual dependence between housing prices and housing credit inEstonia,acountrythatexperiencedrapiddebtaccumulationduringthe2000sandbigswingsinhouseprices during that period. ...
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 ...
The role of education in the Environmental Kuznets Curve. Evidence from Australian data
(Elsevier, 2018-02)
This paper is based on the underlying idea that the use of energy resources in a society significantly depends on their level of education. Then, it is hypothesized that education might directly affect environmental quality ...