• 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 ...
    • closedAccess   Immigration, factor endowments and the productive structure of Spanish regions, 1996–2005 

      Martín-Montaner, Joan; Requena Silvestre, Francisco; Serrano Domingo, Guadalupe Taylor & Francis (2012-07)
      The participation of immigrants in the Spanish labour market has increased from less than 3% in 1996 to more than 13% in 2005. The factor proportion model of production was used to examine the impact of such a large labour ...
    • openAccess   Impact of Stock Market Structure on Intertrade Time and Price Dynamics 

      Ivanov, Plamen Ch.; Yuen, Ainslie; Perakakis, Pandelis Public Library of Science (2014)
      We analyse times between consecutive transactions for a diverse group of stocks registered on the NYSE and NASDAQ markets, and we relate the dynamical properties of the intertrade times with those of the corresponding price ...
    • openAccess   Imported Inputs and Egyptian Exports: Exploring the Links 

      Parra Robles, María Dolores; Martinez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada Dennis J. Snower (2015-11)
      This paper is the first to explore the links between exporting and importing activities of Egyptian firms using panel data over the period from 2003 to 2007. The main aim is twofold. Firstly, the authors report regression ...
    • closedAccess   Imports and growth in China 

      Herrerías Talamantes, María Jesús; Orts, Vicente Elsevier (2011-11)
      In this paper, we analyze the role played by imports and investment on labor productivity and output inChina from 1964 to 2004. In doing so, our analysis focuses on the role of technological progress incorporated into the ...
    • openAccess   Improved Rice Technology Adoption: The Role of Spatially-Dependent Risk Preference 

      Ambali, Omotuyole Isiaka; Areal, Francisco; Georgantzis, Nikolaos MDPI (2021-07-22)
      This study analyses farmers’ adoption of improved rice technology, taking into account farmers’ risk preferences; the unobserved spatial heterogeneity associated with farmers’ risk preferences; farmers’ household and farm ...
    • openAccess   Income and Democracy: Evidence from System GMM Estimates 

      Heid, Benedikt Sebastian; Langer, Julian; Larch, Mario Elsevier (2012-02-17)
      Does higher income cause democracy? Accounting for the dynamic nature and high persistence of income and democracy, we find a statistically significant positive relation between income and democracy for a postwar period ...