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Does internationalisation increase exchange rate exposure?- Evidence from Chinese financial firms
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 ... -
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 ... -
Does new donors' aid affect gross exports and GVC participation differently?
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 ... -
Does Perceived Corruption Converge? International Evidence
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 ... -
Does revealing personality data affect prosocial behaviour?
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 ... -
Does social capital matter for European regional growth?
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 ... -
Does socially responsible mutual fund performance vary over the business cycle? New insights on the effect of idiosyncratic SR features
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 ... -
Does the designation of least developed country status promote exports?
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 ... -
Does university performance have an economic payoff for home regions? Evidence for the Spanish provinces
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 ... -
Drivers of depopulation and spatial interdependence in a regional context
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 ... -
Dynamical patterns of human postural responses to emotional stimuli
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 ... -
Eco-Efficiency and Convergence in OECD Countries
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 ... -
Economic behavior of fishers under climate-related uncertainty: Results from field experiments in Mexico and Colombia
Elsevier (2016-11)This paper presents the results of economic experiments run among fishermen from the Mexican and Colombian Pacific. The experimental design aims at studying behavior under uncertainty concerning the possible effects of ... -
Economic Development and Pesticide Use in EU Agriculture: A Nonlinear Panel Data Autoregressive Distributed Lag Approach
MDPI (2023-09)Within the regime established by the Directive on Sustainable Use of Pesticides (SUDP); the present work explores the relationship between pesticides’ agricultural use per hectare of cropland and the GDP per capita of the ... -
Economic Integration and the Two Margins of Trade: The Impact of the Barcelona Process on North African Countries Exports
Oxford University Press (2012)According to recently developed models of trade based on imperfect competition and heterogeneous firms, lower trade costs increase bilateral trade, not only through a rise in the mean value of individual shipments ... -
Economic Integration Effects on Trade Margins: Sectoral Evidence from Latin America
Sejong University, Center for Economic Integration (2015-06)The present paper aims to determine the effects of different levels of economic integration on the intensive and the extensive margins of trade. Specifically, the analysis focuses on the case of Latin America. It is of ... -
La economía del franquismo desde el éxilio en México (1939-1960)
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (2001)Este trabajo supone una aproximación a diversos enfoques, dentro del exilio español en México, sobre la economía de su país de origen durante 1939- 1960. Se parte tanto de textos de prensa como de reflexiones más detenidas ... -
Education and economic growth: an empirical analysis of nonlinearities
Emerald (2020)Purpose – Might a country’s economic growth performance differ depending on the evolution of its human capital? This paper aims to consider education as a channel for human capital improvement and then for economic growth. ... -
Efectos de las preferencias comerciales en frutas y hortalizas otorgadas a Marruecos por la UE: ¿crean o desvían comercio?
Ministerio de Agricultura y Pesca, Alimentación y Medio Ambiente (2017)En este trabajo analizamos el efecto que ejercen las preferencias comerciales garantizadas a marruecos para cuatro frutas y hortalizas (tomate, pepino, naranja y mandarina) en las exportaciones mensuales a distintos ... -
Effects of external imbalances on GDP recovery patterns
Elsevier (2020-03-04)A decade after the beginning of the Great Recession, flow external imbalances, measured by the current account (CA) have narrowed markedly. However, stock or net foreign assets (NFA) imbalances have kept increasing and ...