• openAccess   Gravity of Covid-19 

      Masood, Amjad; Ahmed, Junaid; Martinez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada Economics Bulletin (2022-02-20)
      In this study, we analyze the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on bilateral trade using monthly data from January to June 2020. Imports of the OECD member states are analyzed using a structural gravity model of trade ...
    • openAccess   Gravity with unemployment 

      Heid, Benedikt Sebastian; Larch, Mario Elsevier (2016-05-10)
      Quantifying the welfare effects of trade liberalization is a core issue in international trade. Existing frameworks assume perfect labor markets and therefore ignore the effects of aggregate employment changes for welfare. ...
    • closedAccess   Green innovation and financial performance: A study on Italian firms 

      Vasileiou, Efi; Georgantzis, Nikolaos; Attanasi, Giuseppe; Llerena Patrick, Patrick Elsevier (2022)
      As the environmental agenda gains momentum all over the world, enterprises face the challenge of combining economic and environmental goals. An obvious, recurrent, and yet not fully answered question is whether, and under ...
    • openAccess   Green trade unions. Structure, wages and environmental technology 

      Asproudis, Elias; Gil Molto, Maria Jose Springer (2015)
      This paper investigates the effect of trade union structure on firms’ technological choices when the unions care about environmental protection. We compare a decentralized with a centralized union structure in a Cournot ...
    • openAccess   Groups and trust: Experimental evidence on the Olson and Putnam hypotheses 

      Degli Antoni, Giacomo; Grimalda, Gianluca European Research Institute on Cooperative and Social Enterprises (2014)
      Mancur Olson and Robert Putnam provide two conflicting views on the effect of involvement with voluntary associations on their members. Putnam argues that associations instill in their members habits of cooperation, ...
    • closedAccess   Growth in a time of external imbalances 

      Camarero, Mariam; Peiró-Palomino, Jesús; Tamarit, Cecilio Elsevier (2018-12-28)
      Globalization and financial integration have increased in the last three decades giving rise to cumulated large external imbalances. The question we address in this paper is whether economic growth ...
    • openAccess   Habituation does not rescue depletion: Two tests of the ego-depletion effect 

      Alos-Ferrer, Carlos; Ritschel, Alexander; García-Segarra, Jaume; Achtziger, Anja Elsevier (2018-11-08)
      The recent literature on ego depletion and self-control is plagued with failed replications. It has been argued that publication bias might have inflated estimated effect sizes. Doubts go so far that the very existence of ...
    • openAccess   Has the current account broken up with its fundamentals in Central and Eastern Europe? 

      COLEMAN, SIMEON; Cuestas, Juan Carlos John Wiley and Sons (2021-01-26)
      Substantial capital outflows across Europe following the 2007/8 Global Financial Crisis and 201 European Sovereign Debt crisis raise concerns regarding potential capital outflows from the economies of Central and Eastern ...
    • openAccess   Has the relationship between the real exchange rate and its fundamentals changed over time? 

      Cuestas, Juan Carlos; Monfort Bellido, Mercedes; Shimbov, Bojan Taylor and Francis (2022-07-11)
      In this paper we contribute to the literature on determining the real exchange rate by using models that incorporate structural breaks and nonlinearities. We estimate cointegrated dynamic ordinary least squares regressions ...
    • openAccess   Have real exchange rates and competitiveness in Central and Eastern Europe fundamentally changed? 

      Cuestas, Juan Carlos; Monfort Bellido, Mercedes; Ordoñez Monfort, Javier Elsevier (2024-01-01)
      In this paper we analyse the evolution of the RER and its main fundamentals for a group of Central and Eastern European countries. We focus particularly on the possibility of structural breaks in the relationship. We find ...
    • closedAccess   Herding in the cryptocurrency market: CSSD and CSAD approaches 

      Vidal-Tomás, David; Ibáñez Escribano, Ana María; Farinós, José Emilio Elsevier (2018-09-22)
      We analyse the existence of herding in the cryptocurrency market through the cross-sectional standard (absolute) deviation of returns. Our results show that extreme dispersion of returns is explained by rational asset ...
    • openAccess   Heuristic Switching Model and Exploration-Exploitation Algorithm to Describe Long-Run Expectations in LtFEs: a Compariso 

      Colasante, Annarita; Alfarano, Simone; Camacho Cuena, Eva Springer (2019-12-07)
      We elicit individual expectations in a series of Learning-to-Forecast Experiments (LtFEs) with different feedback mechanisms between expectations and market price: positive and negative feedback markets. We implement the ...
    • openAccess   La historia que planteaba José Deleito en el aula (Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de Valencia, curso 1935-36) 

      Gómez Herráez, José María Universidad de Alicante (2020)
      José Deleito expresó su concepción de la Historia a través de trabajos académicos y periodísticos. Los apuntes tomados en sus clases por uno de sus alumnos, Vicente Hervás Roselló, en 1935-36 permiten enriquecer el ...
    • openAccess   Homeward Bound FDI: Are Migrants a Bridge over Trouble Finance? 

      Cuadros, Ana; Martín-Montaner, Joan; Paniagua, Jordi Elsevier (2016-06)
      Migrants can lower cross-border investment barriers, help investors by providing information about their homeland and reduce transaction costs by sharing expertise on regulations, customs and procedures. In addition to ...
    • openAccess   Housing and debt over the life cycle and over the business cycle 

      Iacoviello, Matteo; Pavan, Marina Elsevier (2013-03)
      Housing and mortgage debt are studied in a quantitative general equilibrium model. The model matches wealth distribution, age profiles of homeownership and debt, and frequency of housing adjustment. Over the cycle, the ...
    • openAccess   Housing Market Bubbles and Business Cycles in an Agent-Based Credit Economy 

      Erlingsson, Einar Jón; Cincotti, Silvano; Stefánsson, Hlynur; Sturluson, Jon Thor; Teglio, Andrea; Raberto, Marco Dennis J. Snower (2013)
      In this paper the authors present an agent-based model of a credit network economy. The artificial economy includes different economic agents that interact using simple behavioral rules through various markets, i.e., the ...
    • openAccess   How costly is modern maritime piracy to the international community? 

      Martinez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; Bensassi, Sami Blackwell (2012-11)
      This paper focuses on the impact of maritime piracy on international trade. Piracy increases the cost of international maritime transport through an increase in insecurity regarding goods deliveries. Bilateral trade flows ...
    • openAccess   How do markets manage water resources? An Experiment 

      Georgantzis, Nikolaos; García-Gallego, Aurora; Hernán González, Roberto; Kujal, Praveen Springer Verlag (2012-09)
      We experimentally test how a private monopoly, a duopoly and a public utility allocate water of differing qualities to households and farmers. Most of our results are in line with the theoretical predictions. Overexploitation ...
    • openAccess   (How) Do research and administrative duties affect university professors teaching? 

      García-Gallego, Aurora; Georgantzis, Nikolaos; Martín-Montaner, Joan; Pérez Amaral, Teodosio Taylor & Francis (2015-05)
      We analyse the interaction between university professors’ teaching quality and their research and administrative activities. Our sample is a high-quality individual panel data set from a medium-size public Spanish university ...
    • closedAccess   Human Migration in the Era of Climate Change 

      Cattaneo, Cristina; Beine, Michel; Fröhlich, Christiane J.; Dominic, Kniveton; Martinez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; Mastrorillo, Marina; Millock, Katrin; Piguet, Etienne; Schraven, Benjamin Oxford University Press (2019)
      Migration is one response to climatic stress and shocks. In this article we review the recent literature across various disciplines on the effects of climate change on migration. We explore key features of the relationship ...