• openAccess   New evidence on the role of regional clusters and convergence in China (1952–2008) 

      Herrerías Talamantes, María Jesús; Ordóñez, Javier Elsevier (2012-12)
      A new panel method is applied to the case of Chinese provinces to analyze the existence of club convergence in terms of per capita income, labor productivity, and capital intensity, from 1952 to 2008. The advantage of this ...
    • closedAccess   New Evidence on Trade and FDI: how Large is the Euro Effect? 

      Camarero, Mariam; Gómez-Herrera, Estrella; Tamarit, Cecilio Springer (2018)
      In this paper we analyse the effect that the euro has had on trade using a gravity model for 28 countries and covering the period 1990–2013. Our gravity specification includes time-varying fixed effects, correcting any ...
    • closedAccess   New patterns in the locational choice of immigrants in Spain 

      Alamá Sabater, Luisa; Alguacil, Maite; Bernat Martí, Joan Serafí Taylor & Francis (2017)
      During recent years, Spain has experienced an important revolution in its migration flows. With the 2008–2013 Spanish financial crisis, the model of economic growth that attracted a large number of foreign people disappeared, ...
    • openAccess   New stuff or better ways: what matters to access international markets? 

      Peluffo, Adriana; Martinez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; Silva, Ernesto Taylor & Francis Open Access (2020-09-30)
      The connection of innovation and exporting is of major interest to developing countries aiming to achieve higher growth and wellbeing. This study analyzes whether different types of innovation affect export behavior at ...
    • closedAccess   Non-homogeneous volatility correlations in the bivariate multifractal model 

      Liu, Ruipeng; Lux, Thomas Taylor & Francis (2015)
      In this paper, we consider an extension of the recently proposed bivariate Markov-switching multifractal model of Calvet, Fisher, and Thompson [2006. “Volatility Comovement: A Multifrequency Approach.” Journal of Econometrics ...
    • openAccess   Nonlinear adjustment in the real dollar-euro exchange rate: The role of the productivity differential as a fundamental 

      Camarero, Mariam; Ordóñez, Javier Elsevier (2012)
      In this paper we analyze the influence of productivity differentials in the dynamics of the real dollar–euro exchange rate. Using nonlinear procedures for the estimation and testing of ESTAR models during the period 1970–2009 ...
    • openAccess   Nonlinear trend stationarity of the Real Exchange Rates of Mediterranean countries 

      Camarero, Mariam; Cuestas, Juan Carlos; Ordóñez, Javier Inderscience (2008)
      The aim of this article is to provide additional evidence on the fulfillment of the Purchasing Power Parity hypothesis in the so-called Mediterranean countries. In order to test for the empirical validity of such ...
    • closedAccess   OECD: one or many?. Ranking countries with a composite well-being indicator 

      Peiró-Palomino, Jesús; Picazo-Tadeo, Andrés J Springer Verlag (2017)
      This paper provides a composite indicator of well-being for the 35 OECD countries, South Africa, Russia and Brazil for the period 2013-2016, considering data on ten different wellbeing domains from the OECD Better Life ...
    • closedAccess   Oil Price Shocks and Labor Market Fluctuations 

      Ordóñez, Javier; Sala Lorda, Héctor; Silva Becerra, José Ignacio International Association for Energy Economics (2011-07)
      We examine the impact of real oil price shocks on labor market flows in the U.S. We first use smooth transition regression (STAR) models to investigate to what extent oil prices can be considered as a driving force of labor ...
    • openAccess   Oil price shocks and unemployment in Central and Eastern Europe 

      Cuestas, Juan Carlos; Gil-Alana, Luis A. Elsevier (2018-03)
      The aim of this paper is to examine the effect of oil price movements on unemployment in Central and Eastern Europe. We do this by disentangling oil prices movements by their sign and from there we analyse the separate ...
    • openAccess   Oil prices and unemployment in the UK before and after the crisis: A Bayesian VAR approach. A note. 

      Cuestas, Juan Carlos; Ordóñez, Javier Elsevier (2018)
      The aim of this paper is to analyse the role of oil price movements in the evolution of unemployment in the UK, accounting for asymmetric effects. Distinguishing between positive and negative innovations in oil prices ...
    • openAccess   Oil prices, unemployment and the financial crisis in oil-importing countries: The case of Spain 

      Ordóñez, Javier; Monfort Bellido, Mercedes; Cuestas, Juan Carlos (2019-08-15)
      The aim of this paper is to analyse the effect of oil price shocks on unemployment in an oil-importing country such as Spain to determine whether they affect unemployment differently in times of financial distress. In order ...
    • openAccess   On rational forward-looking behavior in economic geography: An experimental analysis 

      Barreda-Tarrazona, Iván; Kundu, Tapas; Østbye, Stein Elsevier (2021)
      This paper adapts the canonical New Economic Geography model for experimental testing of the model's behavioral assumptions by developing a finite-player, finite-horizon dynamic game of migration. Our analysis gives ...
    • openAccess   On Spatially Dependent Risk Preferences: The Case of Nigerian Farmers 

      Ambali, Omotuyole Isiaka; Areal, Francisco; Georgantzis, Nikolaos Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (2021-05-25)
      Rice farmers’ attitudes toward risk-taking have been identified as one of the factors affecting investment decisions and wealth accumulation. While existing studies have identified the socioeconomic factors driving ...
    • openAccess   On the comparative performance of socially responsible and islamic mutual funds 

      Abdelsalam, Omneya; Fethi, Meryem Duygun; Matallín Sáez, Juan Carlos; Tortosa-Ausina, Emili Elsevier (2013-07)
      This is the first study to provide comprehensive analyses of the relative performance of both socially responsible investment (SRI) and Islamic mutual funds. The analysis proceeds in two stages. In the first, the performance ...
    • openAccess   On the consistency of the individual behavior when facing higher-order risk attitudes 

      Colasante, Annarita; García-Segarra, Jaume; RICCETTI, LUCA; Russo, Alberto Elsevier Inc. (2022-08-27)
      We propose and analyze three procedures to elicit participants’ behavior regarding their higherorder risk attitudes. Our procedures relax the rigidity of having to choose among only two alternatives (as usual in the ...
    • openAccess   On the determination of the granular size of the economy 

      Blanco Arroyo, Omar; Ruiz-Buforn, Alba; Vidal-Tomás, David; Alfarano, Simone Elsevier (2018-12)
      Introducing the granular hypothesis, Gabaix (2011) shows that the idiosyncratic shocks of a few “granular” firms account for a significant fraction of aggregate fluctuations of the US business cycle. In ...
    • closedAccess   On the distribution of links in the interbank network: evidence from the e-MID overnight money market 

      Fricke, Daniel; Lux, Thomas Springer Berlin Heidelberg (2015)
      Previous literature on statistical properties of interbank networks has reported various power-laws, particularly for the degree distribution (i.e., the distribution of credit links between institutions). In this paper, ...
    • openAccess   On the distributional properties of size, profit and growth of Icelandic firm 

      Erlingsson, Einar Jón; Alfarano, Simone; Raberto, Marco; Stefánsson, Hlynur Springer Verlag (2012)
      In this paper, we analyze the distributional properties of the balance sheets of Icelandic firms by performing an empirical analysis of total assets, profit rates and growth rates using a data set of 2,818 Icelandic firms ...
    • closedAccess   On the dynamics of eco-efficiency performance in the European Union 

      Gómez Calvet, Roberto; Conesa, David; Gómez Calvet, Ana Rosa; Tortosa-Ausina, Emili Elsevier (2016-02)
      This paper evaluates the evolution of environmental performance in the context of the European Union (EU), over the period 1993–2010. The context is particularly relevant, due to the traditionally high concerns of the EU ...