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    • openAccess   Does climate change concern alter individual tax preferences? Evidence from an Italian survey 

      Cascavilla, Alessandro Emerald (2023-01-20)
      Purpose This paper analyzes the role that the climate change concern (CCCi) has on the willingness to accept an environmental tax. The author aims to grasp how individual general tax preferences can differ with respect ...

    • openAccess   Does digitalization in higher education help to bridge the gap between academia and industry? An application to COVID-19 

      Marquez-Ramos, Laura SAGE Publications Ltd (2021-01-27)
      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 ...

    • closedAccess   Does Environmetal Policy Stringency Foster Innovation and Productivity in OECD Countries? 

      Morales-Lage, Rafael; Bengochea, Aurelia; Martinez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (2016)
      In this paper we use panel data models and quantile regressions to test the “weak” and “strong” versions of the Porter hypothesis, using data from 14 OECD countries over the period 1990-2011. A newly-released environmental ...

    • closedAccess   Does foreign aid promote recipient exports to donor countries? 

      Martinez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas; Herzer, Dierk; Klasen, Stephan; Cardozo, Adriana Springer (2013)
      This paper uses the gravity model of trade to investigate the effect of foreign aid on exports of aid recipients to donor countries. Most of the theoretical work emphasises the possible negative impact of aid on recipient ...

    • closedAccess   Does foreign aid really raise per capita income? A time series perspective 

      Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas; Dreher, Axel; Herzer, Dierk; Klasen, Stephan; Martinez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada Wiley (2012-02)
      We analyze the relationship between per capita income and foreign aid. We employ annual data and five-year averages and carefully examine the time-series properties of the data. Panel estimations with dynamic feasible ...

    • openAccess   Does foreign ownership promote environmental protection? Evidence from firm-level data 

      Balaguer, Jacint; Cuadros, Ana; García-Quevedo, Jose 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 ...

    • openAccess   Does German Development Aid boost German Exports and German Employment? A Sectoral Level Analysis 

      Martinez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas; Klasen, Stephan; Johannsen, Florian De Gruyter (2016)
      This paper uses an augmented gravity model of trade to investigate the link between German development aid and sectoral exports from Germany to aid recipient countries with data from 1978–2011. The findings indicate that ...

    • openAccess   Does German development aid promote German exports? 

      Martinez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas; Klasen, Stephan; Larch, Mario Wiley-Blackwell (2009-08)
      This paper uses a static and dynamic gravity model of trade to investigate the link between German development aid and exports from Germany to the recipient countries. The findings indicate that, in the long run, German ...

    • openAccess   Does internationalisation increase exchange rate exposure?- Evidence from Chinese financial firms 

      Cuestas, Juan Carlos; Huang, Ying Sophie; Tang, Bo Elsevier (2018-03)
      This study investigates both the symmetric and asymmetric exchange rate exposures of Chinese financial firms in the context of an accelerated pace of RMB internationalisation. We find that an increasing number of Chinese ...

    • openAccess   Does multimarket contact affect prices in the retail fuel industry? First empirical evidence 

      Balaguer, Jacint; Ripollés, Jordi 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 ...

    • closedAccess   Does new donors' aid affect gross exports and GVC participation differently? 

      Martinez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada Routledge (2021-07-05)
      This paper investigates whether new donors use foreign aid to facilitate their integration in the world economy. With this aim, the effect of foreign aid on gross trade and global value chains (GVC) is estimated for a ...

    • 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   Does revealing personality data affect prosocial behaviour? 

      Drouvelis, Michalis; Georgantzis, Nikolaos Elsevier (2019-03)
      Many modern organisations collect data on individuals’ personality traits as part of their human resource selection processes. We test experimentally whether revealing information on personality data impacts on pro-social ...

    • closedAccess   Does social capital matter for European regional growth? 

      Forte Deltell, Anabel; Peiró-Palomino, Jesús; Tortosa-Ausina, Emili Elsevier (2015)
      This paper analyzes the role of different elements of social capital in economic growth for a sample of 85 European regions during the period 1995–2008. Despite the remarkable progress that social capital and European ...

    • closedAccess   Does socially responsible mutual fund performance vary over the business cycle? New insights on the effect of idiosyncratic SR features 

      Matallín Sáez, Juan Carlos; Soler-Dominguez, Amparo; de Mingo-López, Diego Víctor; Tortosa-Ausina, Emili Wiley (2018-09-26)
      This study analyses the performance and market timing of US socially responsible (SR) mutual funds in relation to business cycle regime shifts and different grouping criteria: Ethical strategy focus, SR attributes scores ...

    • openAccess   Does the designation of least developed country status promote exports? 

      Klasen, Stephan; Martinez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas; Bruckner, Matthias Routledge (2020-10-11)
      In this paper we examine to what extent developing countries export more as a result of having the official Least Developed Country (LDC) status. We estimate a gravity model of trade over the period 1973–2013, in which ...

    • closedAccess   Does university performance have an economic payoff for home regions? Evidence for the Spanish provinces 

      Crespo, Joan; Peiró-Palomino, Jesús; Tortosa-Ausina, Emili Routledge (2021-12-12)
      This paper analyses the impact of the university system performance on labour productivity growth for Spanish provinces during the period 2009–2016, showing a general positive link. These results enrich the debate on the ...

    • closedAccess   Drivers of depopulation and spatial interdependence in a regional context 

      Alamá Sabater, Luisa; Budí Orduña, Vicente; Roig-Tierno, Norat; Garcia-Alvarez-Coque, Jose-Maria Elsevier (2021)
      There is a growing consensus on the need to propose specific policies to tackle the ongoing population decline in extensive rural areas of Southern Europe. Developing policies to target this issue requires assessment of ...

    • openAccess   Dynamical patterns of human postural responses to emotional stimuli 

      Perakakis, Pandelis; Idrissi, Sofia; Villa Castelar, Jaime; Ivanov, Plamen Ch. Wiley-Blackwell (2012)
      Postural displacements in response to emotional activation have recently been proposed as a direct and objective index of approach–avoidance behavior in humans. Here, we present the results of an experiment designed to ...

    • openAccess   Eco-Efficiency and Convergence in OECD Countries 

      Camarero, Mariam; Castillo, Juana; Picazo-Tadeo, Andrés J; Tamarit, Cecilio Springer Verlag (2013-05)
      This paper assesses the convergence in eco-efficiency of a group of 22 OECD countries over the period 1980–2008. In doing so, three air pollutants representing the impact on the environment of economic activities are ...