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Trade integration in the European Union: Openness,interconnectedness, and distance
(Elsevier, 2020)
This article presents a set of indicators to measure regional trade integration, focusing on the case of the European Union. We propose measures of openness, connectedness and integration which are tuned to evaluate not ...
Has the current account broken up with its fundamentals in Central and Eastern Europe?
(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 ...
The role of services in the environmental Kuznets curve
(Ediuno. Ediciones de la Universidad de Oviedo, 2020-12-23)
This paper examines the influence of services activity in the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) model regarding carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. The analysis is applied for Spain during the period 1940-2014. It compares the ...
Firm–bank credit network, business cycle and macroprudential policy
(Springer, 2021-02-13)
We present an agent-based model to study firm–bank credit market interactions in different phases of the business cycle. The business cycle is exogenously set, and it can give rise to various scenarios. Compared to other ...
Measuring Entrepreneurial Orientation of University Employees in Developing Countries Using the ENTRE-U Scale
(MDPI, 2020)
This research examines the difference in the level of entrepreneurial orientation among university employees within the European Union compared to university employees in non-EU countries. The EU Member States included in ...
Freedom of the press, inequality and environmental policy
(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 ...
Self-employment by gender in the EU: convergence and clusters
(Springer, 2020-11-05)
This paper studies the convergence of self-employment by gender in the European Union, through tests for the order of integration and cluster analysis, in order to investigate the occurrence of two types of convergence: ...
Does multimarket contact affect prices in the retail fuel industry? First empirical evidence
(Elsevier, 2020-12-09)
Although multimarket competition is a fairly common characteristic in the retail fuel industry, its effect on the corresponding prices remains unexplored. By using a large dataset of service stations in Spain, a first set ...
Panel cointegration, quantile regressions, asymmetric adjustments and crises: The case of EU current accounts
(Elsevier, 2021-10-07)
This paper investigates the relationships between the current account and several fundamentals, including the real exchange rate, government consumption, investment, openness, terms of trade and real income in the EU28 ...
Is there a euro effect in the drivers of US FDI? New evidence using Bayesian Model Averaging techniques
(Springer, 2021-02-15)
In this paper we analyze the potential determinants of US outward FDI stock with aparticular focus on the euro effect during the period 1985-2017. To this aim, we considera large set of candidate variables suggested both ...