• openAccess   Bitcoin attention and economic policy uncertainty 

      GILL DE ALBORNOZ NOGUER, BELEN; Lafuente-Luengo, Juan Angel; Monfort Bellido, Mercedes; Ordonez, Javier Elsevier (2024)
      This paper explores the role of Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU) as driver of the Bitcoin public attention. Using Google trends data from January 2010 to November 2021 in a set of 22 countries, a Principal Components ...
    • openAccess   Does Perceived Corruption Converge? International Evidence 

      Lafuente-Luengo, Juan Angel; Marco Gual, Amparo; Monfort Bellido, Mercedes; Ordóñez, Javier De Gruyter (2022-03-17)
      This article analyses the evolution over time of perceived corruption for a large set of countries worldwide. To proxy corruption, we use the recently proposed Bayesian Corruption Index (Standaert, S. (2015). Divining the ...
    • openAccess   Social Exclusion and Convergence in the EU: An Assessment of the Europe 2020 Strategy 

      Lafuente-Luengo, Juan Angel; Marco Gual, Amparo; Monfort Bellido, Mercedes; Ordóñez, Javier MDPI (2020)
      Economic convergence has long been a declared objective of the EU and considered the fundamental mechanism for achieving socioeconomic cohesion. The recent economic crisis had an uneven impact across EU countries and brought ...
    • openAccess   The effect of the EMU on short and long-run stock market dynamics: New evidence on financial integration 

      Lafuente-Luengo, Juan Angel; Ordóñez, Javier Inderscience Publishers (2009)
      This paper deals with the time evolution of stock market integra- tion around the introduction of the euro. In particular we test whether the degree of integration between the main eurozone countries increased after European ...