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Working Papers

2024

1. Effect of Austerity Measures on Infant Mortality: Evidence from Greece
   Papers, arXiv.org
2. Islamic Law, Western European Law and the Roots of Middle East's Long Divergence: a Comparative Empirical Investigation (800-1600)
   Papers, arXiv.org
3. Populist Constitutional Backsliding and Judicial Independence: Evidence from Turkiye
   Papers, arXiv.org

2023

4. Sector-level economic effects of regulatory complexity: evidence from Spain
   Working Papers, Banco de España View citations (2)

2022

5. Estimating the Effects of Syrian Civil War
   Papers, arXiv.org
   See also Journal Article Estimating the effects of Syrian civil war, Empirical Economics, Springer (2024) View citations (2) (2024)
6. The perils of Kremlin's influence: evidence from Ukraine
   Papers, arXiv.org

2021

7. Democracy, technocracy and economic growth: evidence from 20 century Spain
   Working Papers, Banco de España View citations (1)

2020

8. Is justice delayed justice denied? An empirical approach
   Post-Print, HAL
   See also Journal Article Is justice delayed justice denied? An empirical approach, International Review of Law and Economics, Elsevier (2021) View citations (8) (2021)

2018

9. Industry vs services: do enforcement institutions matter for specialization patterns? disaggregated evidence from Spain
   Working Papers, Banco de España View citations (8)
10. The Rise and Fall of Argentina
    Working Papers, George Mason University, Mercatus Center
    See also Journal Article The rise and fall of Argentina, Latin American Economic Review, Springer (2019) View citations (13) (2019)

2011

11. Aging population and public pensions: theory and evidence
    MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany View citations (4)

2010

12. Iceland's Economic and Financial Crisis: Causes, Consequences and Implications
    MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany View citations (1)

Journal Articles

2024

1. Estimating the effects of Syrian civil war
   Empirical Economics, 2024, 66, (2), 671-703 View citations (2)
   See also Working Paper Estimating the Effects of Syrian Civil War, Papers (2022) (2022)
2. Measuring Political Institutions in the Long Run: A Latent Variable Analysis of Political Regimes, 1810–2018
   Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 2024, 173, (3), 867-914
3. The heterogenous effects of a higher volume of regulation: evidence from more than 200k Spanish norms
   Journal of Regulatory Economics, 2024, 65, (1), 137-153 View citations (5)
4. Using synthetic control method to estimate the growth effects of economic liberalisation: Evidence from transition economies
   The World Economy, 2024, 47, (6), 2332-2360

2023

5. Does e-procurement matter for economic growth? Subnational evidence from Australia
   The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 2023, 89, (C), 318-334
6. Economic effects of recent experiences of federalism: Analysis of the regionalization process in Spain
   Journal of Regional Science, 2023, 63, (1), 30-63 View citations (3)
7. Estimating the Effects of Political Instability in Nascent Democracies
   Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer Nationaloekonomie und Statistik), 2023, 243, (6), 599-642
8. Ethnolinguistic diversity, quality of local public institutions, and firm-level innovation
   International Review of Law and Economics, 2023, 75, (C)
9. Long-Term Economic Effects of Populist Legal Reforms: Evidence from Argentina
   Comparative Economic Studies, 2023, 65, (1), 60-95 View citations (2)
10. Long-Term Effects of Yugoslav War
    Defence and Peace Economics, 2023, 34, (4), 410-436 View citations (3)
11. Synthetic Control Method: A tool for comparative case studies in economic history
    Journal of Economic Surveys, 2023, 37, (2), 409-445 View citations (17)
12. The benefits of US statehood: an analysis of the growth effects of joining the USA
    Cliometrica, Journal of Historical Economics and Econometric History, 2023, 17, (1), 49-89
    Also in Cliometrica, 2023, 17, (1), 49-89 (2023)
13. The impact of unilateral BIT terminations on FDI: Quasi-experimental evidence from India
    The Review of International Organizations, 2023, 18, (2), 259-296 View citations (2)

2021

14. Bono Malum Superate: long-run effects of radical institutional change
    Journal of Government and Economics, 2021, 2, (C)
15. Is justice delayed justice denied? An empirical approach
    International Review of Law and Economics, 2021, 65, (C) View citations (8)
    See also Working Paper Is justice delayed justice denied? An empirical approach, Post-Print (2020) (2020)
16. Long-term effects of institutional instability
    Empirical Economics, 2021, 61, (4), 2073-2112 View citations (5)
17. Pharmaceutical Product Liability, Litigation Regimes, and the Propensity to Patent: An Empirical Firm-Level Investigation
    SAGE Open, 2021, 11, (2), 21582440211009470
18. Regional convergence and trade liberalization under weak state capacity: evidence from Mexico
    European Journal of Comparative Economics, 2021, 18, (2), 173-216 View citations (1)

2020

19. Does a ban on trans fats improve public health: synthetic control evidence from Denmark
    Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics, 2020, 156, (1), 1-32 View citations (3)
20. Persistent Effects of Colonial Institutions on Long‐Run Development: Local Evidence from Regression Discontinuity Design in Argentina
    Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, 2020, 17, (4), 820-861 View citations (1)
21. The impact of e-procurement on institutional quality
    Journal of Public Procurement, 2020, 20, (4), 333-375 View citations (1)

2019

22. Does the ban on trans-fats improve public health? In search of the optimal policy response
    Journal of Regulatory Economics, 2019, 55, (3), 258-281 View citations (3)
23. Political economy of pension reforms: an empirical investigation
    European Journal of Law and Economics, 2019, 47, (2), 171-232 View citations (2)
24. Replicating and extending Martin-Quinn scores
    International Review of Law and Economics, 2019, 60, (C) View citations (3)
25. The rise and fall of Argentina
    Latin American Economic Review, 2019, 28, (1), 1-40 View citations (13)
    See also Working Paper The Rise and Fall of Argentina, Working Papers (2018) (2018)
26. Transaction costs and economic growth under common legal system: State‐level evidence from Mexico
    Economics and Politics, 2019, 31, (2), 240-292

2018

27. Economic freedom and growth across German districts
    Journal of Institutional Economics, 2018, 14, (4), 739-765 View citations (6)
28. Inefficient Growth
    Review of Economics and Institutions, 2018, 9, (2) View citations (2)

2016

29. Institutional development, transaction costs and economic growth: evidence from a cross-country investigation
    Journal of Institutional Economics, 2016, 12, (1), 129-159 View citations (15)

2014

30. Aging Population and Public Pensions: Theory and Macroeconometric Evidence
    Panoeconomicus, 2014, 61, (3), 289-316

2013

31. Endogenous economic freedom and the wealth of nations: evidence from a panel of countries, 1996--2011
    Applied Economics, 2013, 45, (28), 3952-3962 View citations (5)
32. Global distribution and dynamics of economic freedom: Non-parametric approach
    Economic Modelling, 2013, 33, (C), 560-571 View citations (1)

Chapters

2024

1. A region-level analysis of the long-term economic effects of joining the European Union
   Chapter 10 in The EU Reexamined, 2024, pp 177-222