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Clusters in foreign-born vs. native self-employment in Europe: do we look alike?
(Taylor and Francis, 2022)
In this paper, we analyse the existence of clusters in self-employment rates, segregating by place of birth, i.e. native vs foreign-born, in a group of 17 European countries. The analysis suggests that natives behave ...
Trade agreements and international technology transfer
(Springer, 2021)
This is the first paper that analyzes for a global sample of countries how trade agree-
ments that include technology-related provisions impact exports of goods, and how
this impact differs depending on the technology ...
Banking sector concentration, credit shocks and aggregate fluctuations
(Elsevier, 2022-07-14)
This paper studies whether the raise in concentration experienced by the Spanish banking sector has lead to the increase of bank-specific credit shocks contribution to aggregate credit. We decompose aggregate credit ...
Which cryptocurrency data sources should scholars use?
(Elsevier, 2022-02-16)
Inspired by Alexander and Dakos (2020), we shed more light on the adequacy of data in the cryptocurrency literature by analysing the scaling properties and underlying processes of the main cryptocurrency databases ...
The Trade Facilitation Impact of the Chinese Diaspora
(Wiley, 2020-03-04)
Using an enhanced dataset on the population share of overseas Chinese in 1970 and 1990, this paper
analyzes the impact of the Chinese diaspora on facilitating China’s bilateral trade during the period 1973-
2013. Our ...
Understanding German FDI in Latin America and Asia: A comparison of GLM estimators
(MDPI, 2020-03-10)
ThegrowthofForeignDirectInvestment(FDI)indevelopingcountriesoverthelastdecade has attracted an intense academic and policy-oriented interest for its determinants. Despite the gravity model being considered a useful tool ...
Are higher wages good for business? An assessment under alternative innovation and investment scenarios
(Cambridge University Press, 2020)
This paper aims at investigating the interplay between inequality, innovation dynamics,
and investment behaviors in shaping the long-run patterns of growth of a closed economy.
By extending the analysis proposed in Caiani ...
Self-selection bias in a field experiment: Recruiting subjects under different payment schemes
(Wiley, 2021)
We examine a potential self-selection bias in different samples of experimental subjects depending on the payment scheme offered in the recruiting process. We ran four field experiments in which undergraduate students in ...
Bridging the gap between academic and policy-oriented activities in higher education institutions
(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2020)
There are three different types of activities performed in higher education
institutions that, taken together, form the components of a trilemma in higher
education. These include traditional academic activities (research ...
The Euribor rate: a forecasting exercise based on fractional integration
(Taylor and Francis Group, 2023)
In this paper we analyse the evolution of the 12-month EURIBOR, with the aim of forecasting its trend in the forthcoming years. Using fractional integration, we find that the Euribor will return to a downward trend towards ...