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Improved Rice Technology Adoption: The Role of Spatially-Dependent Risk Preference
(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 ...
International environmental agreements and imperfect enforcement: Evidence from CITES
(Elsevier, 2023)
International environmental agreements address global environmental problems such as the
decline in biodiversity. The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of
Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) regulates ...
Firms' characteristics and their international location strategy: Micro-level evidence from European countries
(Elsevier, 2022-08-13)
This paper takes micro-level evidence as the basis on which to investigate to what extent firms' heterogeneity is relevant in the internationalization strategy and location choice of European multinational enterprises. We ...
The Role of Payoff Valence on Voting: Egalitarian for Gains and Selfish for Losses
(Frontiers Media, 2021)
We study how payoff valence affects voting behavior on the distribution of monetary outcomes framed as gains or losses in a group when using standard plurality voting (PV) procedures and when using approval voting (AV). ...
Determinants of FDI for Spanish regions: evidence using stock data
(Springer, 2020-12-01)
After decades of academic debate on the factors that determine FDI, the discussion still remains open. This article empirically investigates the determinants of FDI activity using Spanish regional data (NUTS 2) for the ...
Are EU standards detrimental to Africa’s exports?
(Elsevier, 2020-06-15)
The high costs of complying with standards adversely affect export competitiveness. Existing evidence suggests that the harmonisation of standards to international benchmarks reduces compliance costs and is less trade-inhibiting, ...
African Asylum Seekers in Europe: The Interplay between Foreign Aid and Governance in Origin Countries
(Springer, 2021-12-28)
This paper empirically investigates the effects of governance quality on the num‑
ber of African asylum seekers in Europe over the period 1996–2018 and evaluates
the extent to which official development aid acts as a ...
Measuring the Cost of Covid-19 in Terms of the Rise in the Unemployment Rate: The Case of Spain
(Universitaet Kiel. Institut fuer Weltwirtschaft, 2021)
In this article, we aim to estimate what the cost of Covid-19 has been in terms of unemployment for Spain. We use a simple autoregressive model to simulate what the unemployment rate would have been without the pandemic ...
Has the relationship between the real exchange rate and its fundamentals changed over time?
(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 ...
Trade effects of trade facilitation revisited
(Elsevier, 2023-12-01)
This paper is the first to evaluate the effect of trade facilitation measures on bilateral exports considering intra-national trade. The measures used are based on the United Nations Global Survey on Digital and Sustainable ...