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European Union Market Access Conditions and Africa’s Extensive Margin of Food Trade
(Wiley, 2017)
This paper examines the impact of two European Union (EU) market access regulations in the food sector presumed to simultaneously affect firms’ decisions to export food products to the EU. We analysed EU pesticide standards ...
Anchoring on Utopia: a generalization of the Kalai-Smorodinsky solution
(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 ...
Protecting health or protecting imports? Evidence from EU non-tariff measures
(Elsevier, 2018-01)
Non-tariff measures such as food safety standards are aimed at protecting consumers' health but may also be used as protectionism tool to limit imports. This study investigates the protectionist intent of EU food safety ...
Stagnation proofness in n-agent bargaining problems
(Springer-Verlag, 2017-12)
Some bargaining solutions may remain unchanged under any extension of a bargaining set which does not affect the utopia point, despite the fact that there is room to improve the utility of at least one agent. We call this ...
Does socially responsible mutual fund performance vary over the business cycle? New insights on the effect of idiosyncratic SR features
(Wiley, 2018-09-26)
This study analyses the performance and market timing of US socially responsible (SR) mutual funds in relation to business cycle regime shifts and different grouping criteria: Ethical strategy focus, SR attributes scores ...
The Trade-off Between Income Inequality and Carbon Dioxide Emissions
(Elsevier, 2017-12)
Based on a substantially larger data set (in both regional and temporal coverage) than the
existing literature, we investigate the theoretically ambiguous link between income inequality
and per capita emissions using ...
Efectos de las preferencias comerciales en frutas y hortalizas otorgadas a Marruecos por la UE: ¿crean o desvían comercio?
(Ministerio de Agricultura y Pesca, Alimentación y Medio Ambiente, 2017)
En este trabajo analizamos el efecto que ejercen las preferencias comerciales garantizadas
a marruecos para cuatro frutas y hortalizas (tomate, pepino, naranja y mandarina) en las exportaciones
mensuales a distintos ...
Supply-Chain Trade and Labor Market Outcomes: The Case of the EU 2004 Enlargement
(Wiley, 2017)
The structure of international trade is increasingly characterized by fragmentation of
production processes and trade policy. Yet, how trade policy affects supply-chain trade
is largely unexplored territory. This paper ...
Is Aid for Trade Effective? A Panel Quantile Regression Approach
(Wiley, 2017)
This paper investigates whether Aid for Trade (AfT) leads to greater exports in recipient countries. Using panel
data and panel quantile regression techniques, our results suggest that total AfT disbursements promote the ...
Estimation of Sentiment Effects in Financial Markets: A Simulated Method of Moments Approach
(Springer, 2018-10)
We take the model of Alfarano et al. (J Econ Dyn Control 32:101–136, 2008) as a prototype agent-based model that allows reproducing the main stylized facts of financial returns. The model does so by combining fundamental ...