AQR (Grup d’Anàlisi Quantitativa Regional): Recent submissions
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Breakthrough innovations : The impact of foreign acquisition of knowledge [WP]
Based on the Spanish Technological Innovation Panel, this paper explores the role of R+D offshoring on innovation performance from 2004 to 2013. Specifically, we focus our attention on the impact of different types of ...
What drives regional differences in BMI? Evidence from Spain [WP]
This paper aims to contribute to the debate on the North–South health divide, by disentangling the conditioning factors that account for regional differences in BMI. Based on the Spanish data of the European Health Survey ...
A different look at the nexus between entrepreneurship and development using GEM data
We propose a new approach for the visual inspection of the dynamic interplay between several determinants of entrepreneurship and other socioeconomic variables. We focused on the evolution of these variables in 23 countries ...
Do anti-discrimination laws alleviate labor market duality? Quasi-experimental evidence from Korea
Labor market segmentation is a growing phenomenon in many countries across different continents. In 2007, the Korean government undertook a labor reform prohibiting undue discriminatory treatment against fixed-term, ...
Relatedness, external linkages and innovation
This paper has two main objectives. First, it estimates the impact of related and unrelated variety of European regions’ knowledge structure on their patenting activity. Second, it looks at the role of technological ...
In knowledge we trust: learning-by-interacting and the productivity of inventors [WP]
Innovation rarely happens through the actions of a single person. Innovators source their ideas while interacting with their peers, at different levels and with different intensities. In this paper, we exploit a dataset ...
Trains of Thought: High-Speed Rail and Innovation in China
This paper explores the effect of the High Speed Rail (HSR) network expansion on local innovation in China during the period 2008-2016. Using exogenous variation arising from a novel instrument - courier’s stations during ...
Nowcasting and forecasting GDP growth with machine-learning sentiment indicators
We apply the two-step machine-learning method proposed by Claveria et al. (2021) to generate country-specific sentiment indicators that provide estimates of year-on-year GDP growth rates. In the first step, by means of ...
Calidad de vida laboral en Colombia: un índice multidimensional difuso
La calidad del trabajo abarca múltiples dimensiones objetivas y subjetivas, que pueden incluir las rentas del trabajo, la estabilidad laboral, la satisfacción laboral y la seguridad social. En este trabajo se sigue el ...
The Impact of Immigration on Native Employment: Evidence from Italy [WP]
Whether host countries economically benefit or not from immigration is a longstanding debate. In this paper, by taking advantage of the consistent variation of foreign-born workers' settlements across local labor market, ...
Internet and enterprise productivity: evidence from Latin America
This paper tests three hypotheses regarding the link between internet and firm productivity: i) internet adoption and use constitute a source of productivity growth for firms in Latin America, ii) the intensity of its use ...
Do voice and social information contribute to changing views about rent control policy?
Citizens’ ability to make informed and thoughtful choices when voting for policy proposals rests on their awareness of and access to accurate information about the costs and benefits that each proposal entails. We study ...
Regional borders, local unemployment and happiness [WP]
In this paper we provide novel evidence on the effect of local unemployment rate on life satisfaction. We investigate how changes in unemployment rate in local administrative areas affect subjective well-being in Germany, ...
Does Regional Growth Affect Public Attitudes Towards the European Union? [WP]
This study analyses the impact of growth (in absolute and relative terms) of the European regions on the attitudes towards the European Union (EU) of their citizens. It does so in a period of socio-economic turbulence ...
Emissions and Allowances in the EU Emissions Trading System after the Paris Agreement
In this paper, I examine how allowances allocation affected emissions of power sector installations in the EU ETS following the Paris Agreements. The dataset I use covers the 2010-2022 period, includes the emissions and ...
A geometric approach to proxy economic uncertainty by a metric of disagreement among qualitative expectations
In this study we present a geometric approach to proxy economic uncertainty. We design a positional indicator of disagreement among survey-based agents' expectations about the state of the economy. Previous dispersion-based ...
Export Destination and Firm Upgrading: Evidence from Spain
This paper examines the role of export destinations on firm upgrading. I exploit the real effective exchange rate devaluation in Spain during the Great Recession to identify the unusual export performance of manufacturing ...
The economic costs of separatist terrorism in Turkey
Turkey has been suffering from separatist terrorism and the political conflict it implies since the mid 1980s, both of which are believed to have a negative impact on economic welfare. This article investigates the economic ...
Innovation, heterogeneous firms, and the region [WP]
This paper investigates the role of regional determinants on innovation performance controlling by the firm’s absorptive capacity and other sources of firm heterogeneity. The findings for a sample of firms in Spain support ...
Railways and Roadways to Trust
This paper explores the interplay between the extent of transportation infrastructure and various aspects of trust (interpersonal and political trust). We test our hypothesis by exploiting cross regional variation during ...
