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201705: Computing Functional Urban Areas Using a Hierarchical Travel Time Approach: An Applied Case in Ecuador

Moisés Obaco, Vicente Royuela and Xavier Vítores

201704: The Extent of Rent Sharing along the Wage Distribution

Alessia Matano and Paolo Naticchioni

201703: Fear connectedness among asset classes

Julián Andrada-Félixa, Adrian Fernandez-Perez and Simon Sosvilla-Rivero

201702: Resolution of optimization problems and construction of efficient portfolios: An application to the Euro Stoxx 50 index

Víctor Adame-García, Fernando Fernández-Rodríguez and Simon Sosvilla-Rivero

201701: Regional tourism demand forecasting with machine learning models: Gaussian process regression vs. neural network models in a multiple-input multiple-output setting

Oscar Claveria, Enric Monte and Salvador Torra

201614: Breakthrough innovations: The impact of foreign acquisition of knowledge

Damián Tojeiro-Rivero, Rosina Moreno and Erika Badillo Enciso

201613: Economic Impact of Cruise Activity: The Port of Barcelona

Esther Vayá, José-Ramón García, Joaquim Murillo, Javier Romaní and Jordi Suriñach

201612: Climate Change Mitigation and the Role of Technologic Change: Impact on selected headline targets of Europe’s 2020 climate and energy package

Germà Bel and Stephan Josep

201611: A two-Sided coin: Disentangling the economic effects of the 'War on drugs' in Mexico

Germà Bel and Maximilian Holst

201610: Debt-growth linkages in EMU across countries and time horizons

Simon Sosvilla-Rivero and Marta Gómez-Puig

201609: Retaking a course in Economics: Innovative methodologies to simulate academic performance in large groups

Gemma Abio, Manuela Alcáñiz, Marta Gómez-Puig, Gloria Rubert, Mònica Serrano, Alexandrina Stoyanova and Montserrat Vilalta-Bufi

201608: Graduate migration in Spain: the impact of the great recession on a low mobility country

Raul Ramos and Vicente Royuela

201607: Innovation, heterogeneous firms, and the region

Enrique Lopez-Bazo and Elisabet Motellón

201606: The Distributive Effects of Conventional and Unconventional Monetary Policies

Karen Davtyan

201605: Exploration during turbulent times: an analysis of the effects of R&D cooperation on radical innovation performance during the economic crisis

Lorena D'Agostino and Rosina Moreno

201604: Income Inequality and Monetary Policy: An analysis on the Long Run Relation

Karen Davtyan

201603: Relatedness, external linkages and innovation

Ernest Miguelez and Rosina Moreno

201602: Do anti-discrimination laws alleviate labor market duality? Quasi-experimental evidence from Korea

Hoon Choi

201601: Technological cooperation in Spanish firms

Erika Badillo and Rosina Moreno

201528: Calidad de vida laboral en Colombia: un índice multidimensional difuso

Mónica Sofía Gómez, Luis Galvis-Aponte and Vicente Royuela

201527: Tourism and high speed rail in Spain: Does the AVE increase local visitors?

Daniel Albalate, Javier Campos and Juan Luis Giménez

201526: When one door closes: the impact of the hagwon curfew on the consumption of private tutoring in the Republic of Korea

Hoon Choi and Álvaro Choi

201525: Spillovers From the United States to Latin American and G7 Stock Markets: a VAR Quantile Analysis

Helena Chuliá, Montserrat Guillén and Jorge Uribe

201524: Measuaring Uncertainty in the Stock Market

Helena Chuliá, Montserrat Guillén and Jorge Uribe

201523: Bilingual Schooling and Earnings: Evidence from a Language-in-Education reform

Lorenzo Cappellari and Antonio di-Paolo

201522: Short-run and long-run effects of public debt on economic performance: Evidence from EMU countries

Marta Gómez-Puig and Simon Sosvilla-Rivero

201521: Factors Explaining Inter-municipal Cooperation in Service Delivery: A Meta-Regression Analysis

Germà Bel and Mildred E. Warner

201520: Certificate Oversupply in the European Union Emission Trading System and its Impact on Technological Change

Germà Bel and Stephan Joseph

201519: Evaluation of the Impact of Bus Rapid Transit on Air Pollution

Germà Bel and Maximilian Holst

201518: Strong versus Weak Vertical Integration: Contractual Choice and PPPs in the United States

Daniel Albalate, Germà Bel and Richard R. Geddes

201517: Bank risk behavior and connectedness in EMU countries

Manish Singh, Marta Gómez-Puig and Simon Sosvilla-Rivero

201516: Differences in efficiency between Formal and Informal Micro Firms in Mexico

Antonio Baez-Morales

201515: Political connections, corruption, and privatization of public services: Evidence from contracting out water services in Spain

Germà Bel, Francisco González-Gómez and Andres Picazo-Tadeo

201514: Determinants of Micro Firm Informality in Mexican States 2008-2012

Antonio Baez-Morales

201513: Fast Charging Stations: Simulating Entry and Location in a Game of Strategic Interaction

Valeria Bernardo, Joan-Ramon Borrell and Jordi Perdiguero

201512: On the bi-directional causal relationship between public debt and economic growth in EMU countries

Marta Gómez-Puig and Simon Sosvilla-Rivero

201511: Self-organizing map analysis of agents' expectations. Different patterns of anticipation of the 2008 financial crisis

Oscar Claveria, Enric Monte and Salvador Torra

201510: Financial stress transmission in EMU sovereign bond market volatility: a connectedness analysis

Fernando Fernández-Rodríguez, Marta Gómez-Puig and Simon Sosvilla-Rivero

201509: Regional wage gaps, education, and informality in an emerging country. The case of Colombia

Paula Herrera-Idárraga, Enrique Lopez-Bazo and Elisabet Motellón

201508: Financial stress transmission in EMU sovereign bond market volatility: a connectedness analysis

Fernando Fernández-Rodríguez, Marta Gómez-Puig and Simon Sosvilla-Rivero

201507: Regional Forecasting with Support Vector Regressions: The Case of Spain

Oscar Claveria, Enric Monte and Salvador Torra

201506: Malthus living in a slum: urban concentration, infrastructures and economic growth

David Castells-Quintana

201505: Human development and tourism specialization. Evidence from a panel of developed and developing countries

Bianca Biagi, María-Gabriela Ladu and Vicente Royuela

201504: Sovereigns and banks in the euro area: a tale of two crises

Marta Gómez-Puig, Simon Sosvilla-Rivero and Manish Singh

201503: Effects of removing the trend and the seasonal component on the forecasting performance of artificial neural network techniques

Oscar Claveria, Enric Monte and Salvador Torra

201502: Multiple-input multiple-output vs. single-input single-output neural network forecasting

Oscar Claveria, Enric Monte and Salvador Torra

201501: An analysis of the Okun’s law for the Spanish provinces

Celia Melguizo Cháfer

201431: Volatility Transmission between the stock and Currency Markets in Emerging Asia: the Impact of the Global Financial Crisis

Nàtalia Valls and Helena Chuliá

201430: Cooperation in R&D, firm size and type of partnership: Evidence for the Spanish automotive industry

Erika Badillo Enciso, Francisco Llorente and Rosina Moreno

201429: The Spatial effects of transportation on industrial employment

Xavier Fageda and Marta Gonzalez-Aregall