• openAccess   Acuerdos de integración económica en Latinoamérica: efectos sobre los márgenes de comercio 

      Florensa, Luis Marcelo; Márquez-Ramos, Laura; Recalde, María Luisa; Barone, María Victoria Banco Central del Uruguay (2013-05)
      This paper studies the effects of economic integration in Latin America on the margins of trade. The analysis is performed on eleven member countries of the Latin American Integration Association (LAIA). In order to do ...
    • openAccess   Adaptive expectations versus rational expectations: Evidence from the lab 

      Colasante, Annarita; Palestrini, Antonio; Russo, Alberto; Gallegati, Mauro Elsevier (2017-10)
      The aim of the present work is to shed light on the extensive debate about expectations in financial markets. We analyze the behaviors of subjects in an experimental environment in which it is possible to observe expectations ...
    • 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   Exporting and productivity: evidence for Egypt and Morocco 

      Martinez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada Taylor & Francis (2020)
      This paper investigates the link between exporting and importing activities and firm performance using a rich dataset on Egyptian and Moroccan firms. We test the export premium, self-selection and learning-by-exporting ...
    • 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   External imbalances from a GVAR perspective 

      Camarero, Mariam; Carrion-i-Silvestre, Josep Lluís; Tamarit, Cecilio Wiley (2021-03-16)
      We study the drivers governing external disequilibria through a Global VAR (GVAR) analysis applied to a group of 24 countries during the period 1972–2017. The GVAR methodology is particularly well suited for our research ...
    • openAccess   Free Trade Agreements, Institutions and the Exports of EasternPartnership Countries 

      Gylfason, Thorvaldur; Martinez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; Per Wijkman, Magnus Wiley (2015-06)
      Following popular protests at home and the fall of the government, Ukraine reversed course andjoined Georgia and Moldova in signing Association Agreements in June 2014. This article hastwo main aims. First, using a gravity ...
    • openAccess   Freedom of the press, inequality and environmental policy 

      Martinez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; Phillips, Jennifer Cambridge University Press (2020-12-01)
      This paper contributes to the literature on the determinants of environmental standards by studying the role of income inequality and freedom of press. Given that evidence of the environmental Kuznets curve has only been ...
    • openAccess   Is Aid for Trade Effective? A Panel Quantile Regression Approach 

      Martinez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas; Rehwald, Kai Wiley (2017)
      This paper investigates whether Aid for Trade (AfT) leads to greater exports in recipient countries. Using panel data and panel quantile regression techniques, our results suggest that total AfT disbursements promote the ...
    • openAccess   Searching for the optimal territorial structure: the case of Spanish provincial councils 

      Narbón-Perpiñá, Isabel; Balaguer-Coll, Maria Teresa; Prior, Diego; Tortosa-Ausina, Emili Taylor and Francis Group (2019)
      Modern states are organized in multi-level governance structures with economic and political authorities dispersed across them. However, although there is relatively widespread consensus that this form of organization ...
    • closedAccess   The effect of economic integration and institutional quality of trade agreements on trade margins: evidence for Latin America 

      Márquez-Ramos, Laura; Florensa, Luis Marcelo; Recalde, María Luisa Springer (2015)
      This paper studies the effects of economic integration, as well as the institutional quality of existing trade agreements in Latin America, on the margins of trade. The analysis is performed on bilateral exports of goods ...
    • openAccess   The Euro and the CFA Franc: Evidence of Sectoral Trade Effects 

      Martinez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada Springer (2019)
      This paper estimates a gravity model of trade to evaluate the trade effects of the Euro on sectoral trade within the Eurozone (EZ), the CFA Franc Zone (CFA) and between the EZ and the CFA, when CFA countries acquired fixed ...
    • closedAccess   The impact of adult children living at home on the well-being of Spanish parents: Evidence from panel data 

      Gil Molto, Maria Jose; Hole, Arne Risa Elsevier (2024-01-31)
      Despite the prevalence of co-residence of adult children and their parents across Europe, there is only limited empirical evidence on the impact of such living arrangements on well-being. This paper investigates the ...
    • openAccess   The impact of free trade agreements on Middle East and North Africa exports of intermediate and final goods 

      Cardozo-Silva, Adriana R.; Martinez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; Vogler, Paula L. Wiley (2021-10-17)
      This paper is the first to analyse the impact of free trade agreements (FTAs) and the harmonisation of rules of origin (RoO) on Middle East and North African (MENA) countries’ exports differentiating between ...