• openAccess   Bitcoin attention and economic policy uncertainty 

      GILL DE ALBORNOZ NOGUER, BELEN; Lafuente-Luengo, Juan Angel; Monfort Bellido, Mercedes; Ordonez, Javier Elsevier (2024)
      This paper explores the role of Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU) as driver of the Bitcoin public attention. Using Google trends data from January 2010 to November 2021 in a set of 22 countries, a Principal Components ...
    • openAccess   Disentangling permanent and transitory monetary shocks with a nonlinear Taylor rule 

      Lafuente-Luengo, Juan Angel; Monfort Bellido, Mercedes; Pérez, Rafaela; Ruiz, Jesus De Gruyter (2021)
      This article provides an estimation method to decompose monetary policy innovations into persistent and transitory components using the nonlinear Taylor rule proposed in Andolfatto, Hendry, and Moran (2008) [Are inflation ...
    • openAccess   Does Perceived Corruption Converge? International Evidence 

      Lafuente-Luengo, Juan Angel; Marco Gual, Amparo; Monfort Bellido, Mercedes; Ordóñez, Javier De Gruyter (2022-03-17)
      This article analyses the evolution over time of perceived corruption for a large set of countries worldwide. To proxy corruption, we use the recently proposed Bayesian Corruption Index (Standaert, S. (2015). Divining the ...
    • openAccess   Social Exclusion and Convergence in the EU: An Assessment of the Europe 2020 Strategy 

      Lafuente-Luengo, Juan Angel; Marco Gual, Amparo; Monfort Bellido, Mercedes; Ordóñez, Javier MDPI (2020)
      Economic convergence has long been a declared objective of the EU and considered the fundamental mechanism for achieving socioeconomic cohesion. The recent economic crisis had an uneven impact across EU countries and brought ...