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Consultative democracy and trust
(Elsevier, 2018)
We report experimental results from three Colombian villages concerning the impact of a voting mechanism on interpersonal trust and trustworthiness. The vote is purely consultative in that participants are asked to declare ...
The cluster is not flat. Uneven impacts of brokerage roles on the innovative performance of firms
(Elsevier, 2018)
This paper investigates whether and to what extent individual firms improve their innovation from behaving as brokers connecting other actors in the Spanish ceramic tile cluster. The effects of the brokerage roles are ...
New Evidence on Trade and FDI: how Large is the Euro Effect?
(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 ...
Moving ideas across borders: Foreign inventors, patents and FDI
(Wiley, 2022-05)
This paper explores the link between innovation, migration and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) empirically within a theoretically consistent framework. It analyses how migrant inventors enhance multinational firms' adaptive ...
Human Migration in the Era of Climate Change
(Oxford University Press, 2019)
Migration is one response to climatic stress and shocks. In this article we review the recent literature across various disciplines on the effects of climate change on migration. We explore key features of the relationship ...
Patrones de localización espacial de las manufacturas mexicanas: análisis con la técnica de patrones de puntos espaciales
(El Colegio de México, 2018-07)
This paper explores the spatial location patterns of firms in
different
sectors of the Mexican manufacturing industry. The analysi
s is carried
out using a continuous spatial statistic approach by employ
ing a ...
Self-defined information indices: application to the case of university rankings
(Springer, 2020-06-25)
University rankings are now relevant decision-making tools for both institutional and private purposes in the management of higher education and research.
However, they are often computed only for a small set of institutions ...
Financial power laws: Empirical evidence, models, and mechanisms
(Elsevier, 2016-07)
Financial markets (share markets, foreign exchange markets and others) are all characterized by a number of universal power laws. The most prominent example is the ubiquitous finding of a robust, approximately cubic power ...
Inflation targeting or exchange rate targeting: Which framework supports the goal of price stability in emerging market economies?
(Public Library of Science, 2018)
The paper investigates and compares the relationship between inflation and inflation uncertainty
under inflation targeting and, alternatively, a conventional fixed exchange rate system,
for a group of emerging countries. ...
Real exchange rate misalignments in CEECs: Have they hindered growth?
(Springer, 2019-07-16)
We study the impact of exchange rate misalignment on economic activity in nine Central and Eastern European economies. Exchange rate misalignments are computed from country-specific long-run exchange rate relationships ...