• openAccess   Trade policy versus trade facilitation: An application using "Good Old" OLS 

      Márquez-Ramos, Laura; Martinez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; Suárez-Burguet, Celestino Dennis J. Snower (2012)
      Trade policy barriers are only one element of overall trade costs. Among these, and due to the decrease in the influence of tariff barriers on trade over time, institutional barriers might increase in relative importance ...
    • openAccess   Transfers in the gravity equation 

      Kruse, Hendrik Wiard; Martinez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada WILEY, 111 RIVER ST, HOBOKEN 07030-5774, NJ USA (2021-03-23)
      This study integrates development aid into a theoretically founded structural gravity model that considers primary and secondary effects of aid as an income transfer and as a bilateral trade cost determinant. We identify ...
    • openAccess   Transitions in the cryptocurrency market during the COVID-19 pandemic: A network analysis 

      Vidal-Tomás, David Elsevier (2021-02-17)
      In this letter, we identify the transitions of the cryptocurrency market during the pandemic by means of a network analysis. This method allows us to observe that COVID-19 significantly affected cryptocurrencies during a ...
    • closedAccess   Treatment satisfaction [La satisfacción con el tratamiento] 

      Villar López, Julia; Lizán, Luis; Soto Alvarez, Javier; Peiró Moreno, Salvador Elsevier (2009)
      [No abstract available]
    • openAccess   Trust and Reciprocity between Neighbour Countries. Morocco, France and Spain 

      Georgantzis, Nikolaos; Lacomba, Juan Antonio; Lagos Garcia, Francisco Miguel; Milgram, Juliette Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, CSIC: Instituto de Estudios Sociales Avanzados (2018)
      This article examines an intra- and international trust game experiment between Moroccan, French and Spanish participants. Before making decisions, the participants knew the nationality of their partner. We find that, ...
    • openAccess   Twenty-first-century trade governance: findings from the commonwealth countries 

      Khorana, Sangeeta; Martinez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada Wiley (2019-10-23)
      This paper focuses on twenty‐first‐century‐trade governance patterns within the Commonwealth (CW) countries. It uses an augmented gravity model to examine the role of governance in influencing trade and investment flows, ...
    • closedAccess   Ultimatum salary bargaining with real effort 

      García-Gallego, Aurora; Georgantzis, Nikolaos; Jaramillo-Gutiérrez, Ainhoa Elsevier (2008)
      We report experimental results on ultimatum salary bargaining with a real task performed by employee subjects. Compared to the baseline treatment with a hypothetical task, the introduction of a real task raises offers, ...
    • openAccess   Understanding German FDI in Latin America and Asia: A comparison of GLM estimators 

      Camarero, Mariam; Montolio, Laura; Tamarit, Cecilio MDPI (2020-03-10)
      ThegrowthofForeignDirectInvestment(FDI)indevelopingcountriesoverthelastdecade has attracted an intense academic and policy-oriented interest for its determinants. Despite the gravity model being considered a useful tool ...
    • closedAccess   Understanding the Determinants of Economic Integration in Latin America 

      Márquez-Ramos, Laura; Florensa, Luis Marcelo; Recalde, María Luisa Center for Economic Integration, Sejong University (2017-09)
      When signing or enhancing trade agreements with Latin America, political and institutional factors play a more important role at present compared with their role in the past. In addition, ...
    • openAccess   Understanding the role of open peer review and dynamic academic articles 

      Perakakis, Pandelis; Taylor, Michael; Mazza, Marco G.; Trachana, Varvara Akadémiai Kiadó (2011-05-06)
      We welcome the commentary by L. Egghe stimulating discussion on our recent article “Natural selection of academic papers” (NSAP) that focuses on an important modern issue at the heart of the scientific enterprise — the ...
    • closedAccess   Understanding the WTA-WTP gap: Attitudes, feelings, uncertainty and personality 

      Georgantzis, Nikolaos; Navarro Martínez, Daniel Elsevier (2010)
      We present an experiment designed to study the psychological basis for the willingness to accept (WTA)-willingness to pay (WTP) gap. Specifically, we conduct a standard WTA-WTP economic experiment to replicate the gap and ...
    • openAccess   Unemployment and common smooth transition trends in central and eastern european countries 

      Cuestas, Juan Carlos; Ordóñez, Javier University of Nottingham. School of Economics (2011)
      In this paper we analyse whether the apparent comovement of unemployment rates for some of the Central and Eastern EU new members can be explained by a common force, possibly linked to the process of economic integration. ...
    • openAccess   Unemployment and labor force participation in Italy 

      NEMORE, FRANCESCO; Caferra, Rocco; MORONE, ANDREA Emerald Publishing Limited (2021-10-06)
      Purpose Our main purpose is to test the unemployment invariance hypothesis in Italy. Design/methodology/approach This paper provides an empirical investigation of the unemployment and labor force participation in ...
    • closedAccess   Unemployment Convergence in Central and Eastern European Countries: Driving Forces and Cluster Behavior 

      Cuestas, Juan Carlos; Monfort Bellido, Mercedes; Ordóñez, Javier Taylor & Francis (2015)
      Employing a nonlinear logistic smooth transition autoregression system and comovement analysis, we find that the German business cycle has acted as a common driver affecting the cyclical behavior of unemployment rates in ...
    • openAccess   Unemployment Hysteresis by Sex and Education Attainment in the EU 

      Cuestas, Juan Carlos; Gil-Alana, Luis Springer (2023)
      In this paper, we analyse the degree of persistence of shocks in unemployment rates for a group of 22 European countries, disaggregating the data by sex and education attainment. By means of using a long-memory model with ...
    • openAccess   Unemployment Hysteresis in Transition Countries: Evidence using Stationarity Panel Tests with Breaks 

      Camarero, Mariam; Carrion-i-Silvestre, Josep Lluís; Tamarit, Cecilio Wiley-Blackwell (2008)
      This paper tests hysteresis e¤ects in unemployment using panel data for Tran- sition Countries covering the period 1992:1-2003:11. The tests exploit the cross- section variations of the series, and additionally, allow ...
    • openAccess   Unit Labour Costs and the Dynamics of Output and Unemployment in the South ern European Crisis Countries 

      Cuestas, Juan Carlos; Ordóñez, Javier; Staehr, Karsten Springer (2018-07-17)
      The GIPS countries, the south ern European crisis countries, have seen depressed output dynamics and high unemployment rates during the great recession following the 2007 - 2008 financial crisis . ...
    • openAccess   Unraveling the multi-scalar and evolutionary forces of entrepreneurial ecosystems: A historical event analysis applied to IoT Valley 

      Bessagnet, Arnauld; Crespo, Joan; Vicente, Jérôme Elsevier (2021-12-01)
      Entrepreneurial Ecosystems (EEs) have attracted growing attention in the academic world as well as in policy spheres during this last decade. The internal and systemic mechanics of EEs are now based on solid theoretical ...
    • openAccess   Unsupervised machine learning approach for building composite indicators with fuzzy metrics 

      Jiménez-Fernández, Eduardo; Sánchez Domínguez, Angeles; Sánchez Pérez, Enrique Alfonso Elsevier (2022-04-04)
      This study aims at developing a new methodological approach for building composite indicators, focusing on the weight schemes through an unsupervised machine learning technique. The composite indicator proposed is based ...
    • openAccess   Upside versus downside risk: Gender, stakes, and skewness 

      Comeig, Irene; Holt, Charles; Jaramillo-Gutiérrez, Ainhoa Elsevier (2022-05-29)
      Risky choices often involve a tradeoff between expected payoff and payoff variability. Subjects in a simple experiment, however, exhibit more aversion to “downside risk” (with a small probability of a low payoff) and more ...