• openAccess   Gender, self-confidence, sports, and preferences for competition 

      Comeig, Irene; Grau-Grau, Alfredo; Jaramillo-Gutiérrez, Ainhoa; Ramírez, Federico Elsevier (2016)
      Gender differences in the willingness to compete may explain the small percentage of women in top-level positions in business, science, or politics. This research examines with a fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis ...
    • openAccess   Genetic distance, cultural differences, and the formation of regional trade agreements 

      Heid, Benedikt Sebastian; Lu, Wenxi Springer (2022)
      Genetic distance between countries’ populations has been shown to proxy cross-country differences in cultures and preferences. In an unbalanced panel of 133 countries from 1970 to 2012, we find that higher genetic distance ...
    • openAccess   Gestión activa de la demanda en mercados eléctricos experimentales 

      Barreda-Tarrazona, Iván; García-Gallego, Aurora; Pavan, Marina; Sabater-Grande, Gerardo CSIC (2012-03)
      Estudiamos el comportamiento de los consumidores en un mercado de electricidad diseñado en el laboratorio. Los sujetos experimentales toman decisiones sobre la cantidad de electricidad que desean consumir en tres contextos ...
    • closedAccess   Gibrat's Law Redux: think profitability instead of growth 

      Mundt, Philipp; Alfarano, Simone; Milakovic, Mishael Oxford University Press (OUP) (2015)
      We argue that firm profitability can be conveniently characterized by one and the same diffusion process for all firms, akin to Gibrat’s seminal idea of a common stochastic description for the dynamics of firm growth. Here ...
    • openAccess   Global imbalances and the intertemporal external budget constraint: A multicointegration approach 

      Camarero, Mariam; Carrion-i-Silvestre, Josep Lluís; Tamarit, Cecilio Elsevier B.V. (2013-12)
      This paper analyzes the external solvency of a group of 23 OECD countries for the period 1970–2012. The empirical strategy adopted underlines the increasing importance of the financial channel for the external adjustment ...
    • openAccess   Global social identity and global cooperation 

      Buchan, Nancy R.; Brewer, Marilynn B.; Grimalda, Gianluca; Wilson, Rick K.; Fatás, Enrique; Foddy, Margaret Sage Publications (2011-06)
      This research examined the question of whether the psychology of social identity can motivate cooperation in the context of a global collective. Our data came from a multinational study of choice behavior in a multilevel ...
    • closedAccess   Global value chains and firms’ environmental performance 

      Siewers, Samuel; Martinez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; Baghdadi, Leila Elsevier (2023-09-22)
      This paper analyzes the link between joining global value chains (GVCs) and firms’ environmental performance. Based on new survey data for firms in countries in Central Asia, Eastern Europe, and MENA, we use propensity ...
    • openAccess   Globalisation: Recent traits and challenges 

      Cuadros, Ana; Ordóñez, Javier Wiley (2019)
      This special issue gathers together twelve papers that revisit a range of core topics in the field of international economics. These papers were presented at the XIX Conference on International Economics (CIE) held in ...
    • openAccess   Goals and guesses as reference points: a field experiment on student performance 

      Sabater-Grande, Gerardo; Georgantzis, Nikolaos; Herranz-Zarzoso, Noemí Springer (2022-06)
      In this paper, we study overconfidence and goal-setting in academic performance, with and without monetary incentives. Students enrolled in a microeconomics course were offered the possibility of setting their own target ...
    • openAccess   Good and bad increases in ecological awareness: environmental differentiation revisited 

      García-Gallego, Aurora; Georgantzis, Nikolaos Now Publishers (2011)
      We analyze a vertically differentiated market, assuming that conventional and green firms’ products have different impacts on the environment. Heterogeneous consumers choose to be supplied by a conventional or a green ...
    • openAccess   Governing scarcity: water markets, equity and efficiency in pre-1950s eastern Spain 

      Garrido, Samuel Igitur Publishing (2011-08)
      It is usually taken for granted that the existence of water markets allows economic efficiency gains to be achieved at the expense of equity losses. This paper addresses the issue by analysing the functioning of the ...
    • openAccess   Granularidad de las Fluctuaciones del Ciclo Económico: El Caso Español 

      Blanco Arroyo, Omar; Alfarano, Simone Generalitat Valenciana: Comité economic i social de la Comunitat Valenciana (2016)
    • openAccess   Gravity of Covid-19 

      Masood, Amjad; Ahmed, Junaid; Martinez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada Economics Bulletin (2022-02-20)
      In this study, we analyze the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on bilateral trade using monthly data from January to June 2020. Imports of the OECD member states are analyzed using a structural gravity model of trade ...
    • openAccess   Gravity with unemployment 

      Heid, Benedikt Sebastian; Larch, Mario Elsevier (2016-05-10)
      Quantifying the welfare effects of trade liberalization is a core issue in international trade. Existing frameworks assume perfect labor markets and therefore ignore the effects of aggregate employment changes for welfare. ...
    • closedAccess   Green innovation and financial performance: A study on Italian firms 

      Vasileiou, Efi; Georgantzis, Nikolaos; Attanasi, Giuseppe; Llerena Patrick, Patrick Elsevier (2022)
      As the environmental agenda gains momentum all over the world, enterprises face the challenge of combining economic and environmental goals. An obvious, recurrent, and yet not fully answered question is whether, and under ...
    • openAccess   Green trade unions. Structure, wages and environmental technology 

      Asproudis, Elias; Gil Molto, Maria Jose Springer (2015)
      This paper investigates the effect of trade union structure on firms’ technological choices when the unions care about environmental protection. We compare a decentralized with a centralized union structure in a Cournot ...
    • openAccess   Groups and trust: Experimental evidence on the Olson and Putnam hypotheses 

      Degli Antoni, Giacomo; Grimalda, Gianluca European Research Institute on Cooperative and Social Enterprises (2014)
      Mancur Olson and Robert Putnam provide two conflicting views on the effect of involvement with voluntary associations on their members. Putnam argues that associations instill in their members habits of cooperation, ...
    • closedAccess   Growth in a time of external imbalances 

      Camarero, Mariam; Peiró-Palomino, Jesús; Tamarit, Cecilio Elsevier (2018-12-28)
      Globalization and financial integration have increased in the last three decades giving rise to cumulated large external imbalances. The question we address in this paper is whether economic growth ...
    • openAccess   Habituation does not rescue depletion: Two tests of the ego-depletion effect 

      Alos-Ferrer, Carlos; Ritschel, Alexander; García-Segarra, Jaume; Achtziger, Anja Elsevier (2018-11-08)
      The recent literature on ego depletion and self-control is plagued with failed replications. It has been argued that publication bias might have inflated estimated effect sizes. Doubts go so far that the very existence of ...
    • openAccess   Has the current account broken up with its fundamentals in Central and Eastern Europe? 

      COLEMAN, SIMEON; Cuestas, Juan Carlos 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 ...