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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

201428: Does absorptive capacity determine collaborative research returns to innovation? A geographical dimension

Erika Badillo Enciso and Rosina Moreno

201427: Job loss among immigrant and native workers: evidence from Spain’s economic downturn

Elisabet Motellón and Enrique Lopez-Bazo

201426: Are we wasting our talent? Overqualification and overskilling among PhD graduates

Antonio Di Paolo and Ferran Mane

201425: Income inequality in Europe. Analysis of recent trends at the regional level

Raul Ramos and Vicente Royuela

201424: European government bond market integration in turbulent times

Pilar Abad and Helena Chuliá

201423: An Institutional, Social and Economic Performance Index (ISEPI) with an application to the European Neighbourhood Policy

Jordi López-Tamayo, Raul Ramos and Jordi Suriñach

201422: Industrial Emissions Abatement: Untangling the Impacts of the EU ETS and the Economic Crisis

Germà Bel and Stephan Joseph

201421: Forward Looking Banking Stress in EMU Countries

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

201420: Effects of unit-based pricing on the waste collection demand: a meta-regression analysis

Germà Bel and Raymond Gradus

201419: Job Accessibility, Employment and Job-Education Mismatch in the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona

Antonio Di Paolo, Anna Matas and Josep Raymond

201418: Public and Private Production in a Mixed Delivery System: Regulation, Competition and Costs

Germà Bel and Jordi Rosell

201417: A multivariate neural network approach to tourism demand forecasting

Oscar Claveria, Enric Monte and Salvador Torra

201416: Factor Accumulation, Externalities and Absorptive Capacity in Regional Growth: Evidence from Europe

Juan Jung and Enrique Lopez-Bazo

201415: Are traffic violators criminals? Searching for answers in experiences of European countries

José I. Castillo-Manzano, Mercedes Castro-Nuño and Xavier Fageda

201414: What hurts the dominant airlines at hub airports?

Xavier Fageda

201413: Innovation Adoption and Productivity Growth: Evidence for Europe

Rosina Moreno and Jordi Suriñach

201412: Task Trade and its determinants in Spain: a national and regional analysis

José Ramón García, Fabio Manca and Jordi Suriñach

201411: Overeducation, skills and wage penalty: Evidence for Spain using PIAAC data

Sandra Nieto

201410: Are R&D collaborative agreements persistent at the firm level? Empirical evidence for the Spanish case

Erika Badillo Enciso and Rosina Moreno

201409: When supply travels far beyond demand: Causes of oversupply in Spain’s transport infrastructure

Daniel Albalate, Germà Bel and Xavier Fageda

201408: Decomposition of Differences in PISA Results in Middle Income Countries

Sandra Nieto and Raul Ramos

201407: An Update on EMU Sovereign Yield Spread Drivers in Times of Crisis: A Panel Data Analysis

Marta Gómez-Puig, Simon Sosvilla-Rivero and María del Carmen Ramos-Herrera

201406: Dollarization and the Relationship Between EMBI and Fundamentals Latin American Countries

María Lorena Mari del Cristo and Marta Gómez-Puig

201404: A panel data analysis of FDI and informal labor markets

Antonio Baez-Morales

201403: Causality and Contagion in EMU Sovereign Debt Markets

Marta Gómez-Puig and Simon Sosvilla-Rivero

201402: EMU sovereign debt market crisis: Fundamentals-based or pure contagion?

Marta Gómez-Puig and Simon Sosvilla-Rivero