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International Production Networks and Economic Growth: The Case of the Western Balkan Countries
Taylor & Francis (2016)The globalization of the world economy has given rise to new trade patterns through the intensification of international production networks (IPNs). This phenomenon has enabled countries to undertake more in-depth ... -
International trade and migrant networks: Is It really about qualifications?
Universidad de Chile (2014)Personal characteristics of migrants could help to strengthen the impact ofmigrant networks on bilateral trade. While most of the attention has beenfocused on immigrants’ educational attainment, this paper focuses on ... -
Intragroup competition in public good games: The role of relative performance incentives and risk attitudes
Wiley (2019-03-27)We analyze a public good game (PGG) with intragroup competition in which, generally but not always, the dominant strategy is to not contribute; therefore, free riding is the unique Nash equilibrium, not achieving Pareto ... -
Introduction to migration and refugee flows: New insights
Cogitatio Press (2021-10-28)Population movements between countries and continents are not recent phenomena. What is new today is that migration flows are increasingly linked to the globalization process and to environmental degradation. Most of the ... -
Investment dynamics in central and eastern Europe: a nonlinear approach
Informa UK Limited (Taylor & Francis Group) (2023-05-10)The aim of this article is to understand the dynamics of investment in Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs). The role that investment plays in the economic development is of particular interest in these countries, ... -
Investment Incentives Under Emission Trading: An Experimental Study
Springer Verlag (2012-10)This paper presents the results of an experimental investigation on incentives to adopt advanced abatement technology under emissions trading. Our experimental design mimics an industry with small asymmetric polluting firms ... -
Inward FDI and growth: The role of macroeconomic and institutional environment
Elsevier (2011)This paper contributes to the discussion on the role played by the absorptive capacities within host economies in their ability to grow and to exploit FDI efficiently. The outcomes for a sample of developing economies ... -
Is Aid for Trade Effective? A Panel Quantile Regression Approach
Wiley (2017)This paper investigates whether Aid for Trade (AfT) leads to greater exports in recipient countries. Using panel data and panel quantile regression techniques, our results suggest that total AfT disbursements promote the ... -
Is eco-efficiency in greenhouse gas emissions converging among European Union countries?
Springer Berlin Heidelberg (2014-08)Eco-efficiency refers to the ability to produce more goods and services with less impact on the environment and less consumption of natural resources. This issue has become a matter of concern that is receiving increasing ... -
Is Ethical Money Sensitive to Past Returns? The Case of Portfolio Constraints and Persistence in Islamic Funds
Springer Verlag (2017-06)In this paper, we analyze the performance persistence and survivorship bias of Islamic funds. The remarkable growth of these types of ethical funds raises the question of how non-financial attributes, including beliefs and ... -
Is full banking integration desirable?
Elsevier (2017-08)We analyze the links between banking integration and economic development for a sample of OECD countries. We measure banking integration considering indicators that merge not only openness but also connectedness with ... -
Is Social Capital Green? Cultural Features and Environmental Performance in the European Union
Wiley (2018-02-13)This paper analyses the r elationship between social capita l and environmental performance in the European Union. In a first stage, environmental performance is measured by an index of eco - efficiency at ... -
Is the environmental performance of industrialized countries converging? A 'SURE' approach to testing for convergence
Elsevier (2008)In this paper, we test for convergence in the environmental performance of a sample of OECD countries, with data ranging from 1971 to 2002. First, we use Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to compute two environmental performance ... -
Is the Export-led Growth Hypothesis Enough to Account for China’s Growth?
Wiley-Blackwell (2010-07-13)The purpose of the present paper is to analyze whether the expansion of the Chinese economy is based on an export-led growth effect or, on the contrary, Chinese development between 1964 and 2004 was driven by investment. ... -
Is the ‘euro effect’ on trade so small after all? New evidence using gravity equations with panel cointegration techniques
Elsevier (2014-07)In this paper we present new evidence on the aggregate effect of the euro on trade using data for 26 OECD countries for the period 1967–2008. We strive to fill the gaps present in the previous literature through a ... -
Is there a euro effect in the drivers of US FDI? New evidence using Bayesian Model Averaging techniques
Springer (2021-02-15)In this paper we analyze the potential determinants of US outward FDI stock with aparticular focus on the euro effect during the period 1985-2017. To this aim, we considera large set of candidate variables suggested both ... -
Is Vehicle Scrapping Affected by Low-Emission Zones? The case of Madrid
Elsevier (2023-03)This paper provides an initial empirical evaluation of the possible impact a low-emission zone (LEZ) has on vehicle scrappage rates. The analysis is based on a quasi-experimental design, which is applied to the Spanish ... -
Japan's FDI drivers in a time of financial uncertainty. New evidence based on Bayesian Model Averaging
Elsevier (2021-01-22)In this paper we analyse the determinants of Japanese outward FDI stock for the period 1996–2017. This period is especially relevant as it covers a process of increasing economic globalization and two financial crises. To ... -
Jordi Planas (2013), Viticultura i cooperativisme. La comarca d’Igualada, 1890-1939, Publicacions de l’Abadia de Montserrat. 412 pp
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Key sectors in Input-Output Production Networks: an application to Brexit
Wiley (2020)This paper presents the first detailed and holistic description of the European production network (EPN) and provides different rankings of the most 'systemically important' industries involved in Brexit. Employing ...