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Robot adoption and export performance: Firm-level evidence from Spain
(Elsevier, 2022-06-02)
Export activities are crucial for firm performance. Existing evidence shows that technology adoption is an essential determinant of firm competitiveness. Nevertheless, scarce attention has been devoted to robotisation, a ...
The impact of diversification on the profitability and risk of Chinese banks: evidence from a semiparametric approach
(Springer, 2024-06-24)
This paper analyzes the effects of banking diversification and focus strategies on the profitability and risk of Chinese banks in the post-crisis years (2008–2019). For this purpose, semiparametric estimates are used. The ...
The impact of migration on wages in Costa Rica
(Oxford University Press, 2023-03)
In recent years, Costa Rica has experienced greater international migration from
neighboring countries due to political, economic, and social reasons, raising discussions on the impact of migration on wages of native Costa ...
Green innovation and financial performance: A study on Italian firms
(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 ...
FTX’s downfall and Binance’s consolidation: The fragility of centralised digital finance
(Elsevier ScienceDirect, 2023-07-16)
This paper investigates the causes and the consequences of the FTX digital currency exchange’s failure in November 2022. Analysing on-chain data, we report that FTX heavily relied on leveraging and misusing its native ...
The geographic visualization of financial inclusion and exclusion in Mexican municipalities
(Sage, 2023-09-23)
In this paper, we present a gridded population cartogram illustrating a recently constructed financial inclusion index for Mexico 2020 (Dircio-Palacios-Macedo et al., 2023). Its importance relies in that it allows us to ...
The effect of time‑varying fundamentals in learning‑to‑forecast experiments
(Springer, 2023)
Inspired by macroeconomic scenarios, we aim to experimentally investigate the evolution of short- and long-run expectations under diferent specifcations of the fundamentals. We collect individual predictions for future ...
Regional income convergence in Colombia: population, space, and long-run dynamics
(Springer, 2023)
We examine the trajectory of regional income dynamics in Colombia. Using data on all 33 Colombian departments from 2000 to 2016, we employ extensions of (spatial) Markov chains, space-time mobility measures, along with a ...
Female managers and firm performance: Evidence from the non-agricultural sectors in caribbean countries
(Elsevier, 2024-01-29)
This paper investigates whether female-led firms in the Caribbean region are less productive than their male-led counterparts. Whereas previous literature focused on female ownership as a measure of female entrepreneurship ...
Does foreign ownership promote environmental protection? Evidence from firm-level data
(Springer, 2022)
This paper examines the role played by foreign ownership as a determinant of the environmental behaviour of Spanish manufacturing firms. Unlike previous studies, our analysis distinguishes between current expenditure on ...