Research

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Refereed Publications

Firm Innovation and Employment in South Africa: Examining the Role of Export Participation and Innovation Novelty. With Naidoo, K., Kraemer-Mbula, E., and Tregenna, F. Emerging Markets Finance and Trade. Link

Environmental Effects of the African Continental Free Trade Agreement: A Computable General Equilibrium Model Approach. 2021. With Somya Mathur, Badri Narayanan and Hanna C. Norberg. Journal of African Trade (in print). Link

Do Trade and Investment Agreements Promote Foreign Direct Investment within Latin America? Evidence from a Structural Gravity Model, 2020, Mathematics, with Sanchez-Robles and Shachmurove. Link

Effects of China’s hukou policy on rural-to-urban migrants’ health, online November 2019, in print in 2020, with Rick, Christopher. Eastern Economic Journal. Volume 46: pp. 224-259. Link

Do R&D activities matter for productivity? A regional spatial approach assessing the role of human and social capital, 2017, with V Martínez-San Román, P Pérez. Economic Modelling 60, pp. 448-461. Link

Foreign direct investment, trade integration and the home bias: evidence from the European Union, 2016, with V Martínez-San Román, B Sánchez-Robles. Empirical Economics 50 (1), pp. 197-229. Link

Research, technology frontier and productivity growth, 2015, with P Pérez, A Fernández. Acta Oeconomica 65 (1), pp. 69-89. Link

European Union and Trade Integration: Does the home bias puzzle matter? 2013, with Martinez, V. and Sanchez-Robles, B. Journal of World Economy (Revista de Economia Mundial). Vol 32, pp. 173-188. Link

Foreign Direct Investment and Trade: Complements or Substitutes? Empirical Evidence for the European Union. 2012, with Martinez, V. and Sanchez-Robles, B. Technology and Investment, 3, pp. 105-112. Link

Technological Capital and Technical Progress in the G-5 Economies. 2011, with Perez, P. and Fernandez, A. Journal of Applied Economics. November Vol. XIV, pp. 343-361. Link

Differences in the Economic Growth of Latin American Countries. Integration Effects and Foreign Direct Investment Influence”. 2008. with Carrera, A. and Fernandez, A. Operational Research (Investigacion Operacional), Vol. 29 (1). pp. 8-26. Link

Integración comercial y crecimiento: el caso de África Sub-Sahariana. 2007, with Perez, P. and Fernandez, A. Journal of World Economy (Revista de Economia Mundial). Vol. 17, pp. 195-215r.

And Endogenous Growth Model to Explain the Link between Equality and Growth, 2007, with Sanchez-Robles, Operational Research (Investigacion Operacional). Vol. 28 (3) pp. 269-284. Link

Scale Economies and Corporate Transactions in the Spanish Real Estate Sector. 2007 with Sanchez-Robles B. and Gil. P. European Real Estate Society Journal (ERES).

A Single European Market with 25 Different Corporate Taxes? Fiscal Disparity In Spain with Regard to Its Future In The European Union”. 2007, with Carrera, A. and Fernandez, A.). International Tax Review, INTERTAX. Vol 35/2, pp. 117-127. Link

Policy Shocks as a Source of Endogenous Growth. 2005 with Sanchez-Robles. Journal of Policy Modeling, Vol. 27/12, pp. 249-261. Link

Does Equality Reduce Growth? Some Empirical Evidence”. 2005 with Sanchez-Robles. Applied Economics Letters, Vol. 12, issue 08, pp.479-483. Link

Foreign Direct Investment, Economic Freedom and Growth: New Evidence for Latin America”. 2003 with Sánchez-Robles, B. European Journal of Political Economy. Vol. 19, pp. 529-545. Link

Crecimiento económico y desigualdad en los países latinoamericanos. 2001, with Sanchez-Robles, B. Información Comercial Española, 790, pp. 63-75.

Books and Chapters

Foreign Direct Investment among Latin American Custom Union Economies: An Economic Integration Analysis. Chapter 10. Propuestas de Política Económica ante los Desafíos Actuales. (with Shachmurove, Y. and Sanchez-Robles, B.), 2012, pp. 503-527. (University of Malaga Ed.). Link

Veinte años de Cantabria en Europa. Catálogo de Fondos Recibidos y Aplicaciones. (with Carrera, A. and Fernandez, A.), 2008, Ed. University of Cantabria. Link

Estudios de Derecho Español y Europeo. “Solidaridad regional y Unión Europea: El caso de Cantabria”. Estudios de Derecho Español y Europeo. 2009 (with Carrera, A. and Fernandez, A) Ed. University of Cantabria. Link

Working Papers

Effects of China’s hukou policy on rural-to-urban migrants’ health, 2018, with Rick, Christopher. Available as a working paper for UNU-WIDER. Link

FDI, Trade Integration and the Border Effect: Evidence from the European Union (with Martinez-San Roman, V. and Sanzhez-Robles, B.), 2014, CESifo Working Paper No. 4867

The Trade-FDI Nexus: Evidence from the European Union. (with Martinez-San Roman, V. and Sanzhez-Robles, B.). 2013, Working Paper Published in the Series of the Department of Economics, University Jaume I, Spain.

How Changes in International Trade Affect African Growth”. (with Fernandez, A.), 2008, Economic Science working papers.

Growth and Inequality in Latin-American Countries: Some Empirical Findings”. (with Sanzhez-Robles, B.) 2004, SSRN working Papers nº525882.