• closedAccess   Anchoring on Utopia: a generalization of the Kalai-Smorodinsky solution 

      Alos-Ferrer, Carlos; García-Segarra, Jaume; Ginés-Vilar, Miguel Springer (2017-11-04)
      Many bargaining solutions anchor on disagreement, allocating gains with respect to the worst-case scenario. We propose here a solution anchoring on utopia (the ideal, maximal aspirations for all agents), but yielding ...
    • openAccess   Approximation of integration maps of vector measures and limit representations of Banach function spaces 

      Jiménez-Fernández, Eduardo; Sánchez Pérez, Enrique A.; Werner, Dirk Polskiej Akademii Nauk, Instytut Matematyczny (2017)
      We study whether or not the integration maps of vector measures can be computed as pointwise limits of their finite rank Radon Nikodym derivatives. The positive cases are obtained by using the circle of ideas related to ...
    • closedAccess   Are bygones bygones? 

      Cubitt, Robin; Ruiz Martos, Maria J.; Starmer, Chris Springer US (2012-08)
      This article reports an experiment which tests the principle of separability, i.e. that behaviour in a dynamic choice problem is independent of history and of unreachable eventualities. Although this is a well-known principle ...
    • openAccess   Are credit screening contracts designed for men? 

      Comeig, Irene; Jaramillo-Gutiérrez, Ainhoa; Ramírez, Federico Springer (2022-03-07)
      Access to credit is key to succeed in business. Theoretical models of credit under asymmetric information classify borrowers and grant or deny credit, typically based on incentive-compatible contracts with collateral. ...
    • closedAccess   Are EU standards detrimental to Africa’s exports? 

      Kareem, Fatima Olanike; Martinez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada Elsevier (2020-06-15)
      The high costs of complying with standards adversely affect export competitiveness. Existing evidence suggests that the harmonisation of standards to international benchmarks reduces compliance costs and is less trade-inhibiting, ...
    • openAccess   Are higher wages good for business? An assessment under alternative innovation and investment scenarios 

      Caiani, Alessandro; Russo, Alberto; Gallegati, Mauro Cambridge University Press (2020)
      This paper aims at investigating the interplay between inequality, innovation dynamics, and investment behaviors in shaping the long-run patterns of growth of a closed economy. By extending the analysis proposed in Caiani ...
    • openAccess   Are international environmental policies effective? The case of the Rotterdam and the Stockholm Conventions 

      Núñez Rocha, Thaís; Martinez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada (2018-06-30)
      This is the first paper to show that participation in an international environmental agreement has some effectiveness. Our identification strategy consists of applying difference-in-differences techniques in a panel data ...
    • closedAccess   Are regional trading agreements beneficial?. Static and dynamic panel gravity models 

      Martinez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas; Horsewood, N. Elsevier (2009)
      This paper evaluates the effects of preferential agreements on trade between trade group members and non-members using a static and a dynamic gravity model. The gravity model is estimated using recent panel data techniques ...
    • openAccess   Are RTA agreements with environmental provisions reducing emissions? 

      Baghdadi, Leila; Martinez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; Zitouna, Habib Elsevier (2013-07)
      This paper investigates whether RTAs with environmental provisions affect relative and absolute pollution levels. In order to do so, the determinants of carbon dioxide emissions convergence are estimated for a cross-section ...
    • openAccess   Are the Central East European Countries Pollution Havens? 

      Martinez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; Vidovic, Martina; Voicu, Anka Monika Sage (2016-09)
      The aim of this article is to investigate the relationship between environmental stringency and intra–European Union (EU) trade flows. Two main hypotheses are tested. First, we test whether the stringency of a country's ...
    • openAccess   Are the determinants of CO2 emissions converging among OECD countries? 

      Camarero, Mariam; Picazo-Tadeo, Andrés J; Tamarit, Cecilio Elsevier (2013)
      This paper studies convergence in CO2emission intensity (CO2 emissions over GDP) among OECD countries over the period 1960-2008 based on its determinants, namely, energy intensity (energy consumption over GDP) and the ...
    • closedAccess   Are the transport fuel retail markets regionally integrated in Spain? Evidence from price transmission 

      Balaguer, Jacint; Ripollés, Jordi Elsevier (2014-10)
      In this paper we explore whether the Spanish retail fuel markets are integrated at the regional level. We perform a comparative analysis of the transmission of international wholesale fuel prices to retail fuel prices. Our ...
    • closedAccess   Assessing the Effectiveness of Environmental Provisions in Regional Trade Agreements. An empirical analysis 

      Martinez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada OECD Publishing (2018)
      While governments increasingly commit to incorporating environmental objectives in Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs), the evidence on the impact of including environmental provisions in RTAs on environmental outcomes is ...
    • closedAccess   Asset markets in the lab: A literature review 

      Nuzzo, Simone; MORONE, ANDREA Elsevier (2017-03)
      This paper aims at providing an overview of several topics that have been addressed in the field of experimental asset markets. Rather than being exhaustive in any single topic, this review is meant to gather the several ...
    • openAccess   Asymmetric fuel price responses under heterogeneity 

      Balaguer, Jacint; Ripollés, Jordi Elsevier (2016-02)
      We explore the effect of cross-sectional aggregation of data on estimation and test of asymmetric retail fuel price responses to wholesale price shocks. The analysis is performed on data collected daily from individual ...
    • openAccess   Audience effects and other-regarding preferences against corruption: Experimental evidence 

      García-Gallego, Aurora; Georgantzis, Nikolaos; Jaber-Lopez, Tarek; Michailidou, Georgia Elsevier (2020-10-22)
      We report results from an experiment in which two firms compete for a public project by submitting offers of quality and bribery to a public official. We study the impact of audience effects (transparency) and other regarding ...
    • openAccess   Automation, Job Polarisation, and Structural Change 

      FIERRO, LUCA EDUARDO; Caiani, Alessandro; Russo, Alberto Elsevier (2022-06-28)
      The increasing automation of tasks traditionally performed by labour is reshaping the relationship between skills and tasks of workers, unevenly affecting labour demand for low, middle, and high-skill occupations. To ...
    • closedAccess   Bank Branch Geographic Location Patterns in Spain: Some Implications for Financial Exclusion 

      Alamá Sabater, Luisa; Tortosa-Ausina, Emili Wiley (2012)
      Over the last 20 years, the Spanish banking industry has undergone a profound reshaping in several respects. One of the factors that has allowed this has been the geographic expansion of most savings banks into other regions ...
    • openAccess   Banking sector concentration, competition and financial stability: the case of the Baltic countries 

      Cuestas, Juan Carlos; Lucotte, Yannick; Reigl, Nicolas Taylor & Francis (2019)
      This paper empirically assesses the potential nonlinear relationship between competition and bank risk for a sample of commercial banks in the Baltic countries over the period 2000–2014. Competition is measured by two ...
    • openAccess   Banking sector concentration, credit shocks and aggregate fluctuations 

      Alfarano, Simone; Blanco Arroyo, Omar Elsevier (2022-07-14)
      This paper studies whether the raise in concentration experienced by the Spanish banking sector has lead to the increase of bank-specific credit shocks contribution to aggregate credit. We decompose aggregate credit ...