The emergence of service offshoring places competitiveness at the centre of the discussion on international trade. The role of cost related factors driving trade performances is debated. However, although services trade becomes more dynamic, service competitiveness factors remain a field largely...

Desde que la globalización se ha convertido en uno de los aspectos de mayor relevancia dentro del estudio de las evoluciones de la economía internacional, la importancia dada al fenómeno de la integración económica se ha incrementado progresivamente. Este fenómeno de globalización está...

Abstract What are the eects of natural disasters on electoral results? Some authors claim that catastrophes have a negative eect on the survival of leaders in a democracy because voters have a propensity to punish politicians for not preventing or poorly handling a crisis. In contrast, this...

Bouton et al. (2022) compare the properties of majority run-off and plurality rule elections in a laboratory setting, focusing on Duverger's prediction that plurality rule leads to higher levels of strategic voting. They produce a causal estimate of the difference in incidence of strategic...

We study experimentally the properties of the majority runoff system and compare them to the ones of plurality rule, in the setup of a divided majority. Our focus is on Duverger's famous predictions that the plurality rule leads to a higher coordination of votes on a limited number of candidates...

The paper analyses the potential contribution of services as a driving force of economic growth in developing countries within a Kaldorian framework. In doing so, we revisit Kaldor Growth Laws and econometrically test them for a number of economic activities (including four service branches)...

It has been suggested that a paradigm shift is taking place, from the old model of product innovation based on in-house R&D, to a new model based on the intensive use of external sources (search depth). We test this using Eurostat CIS4 data for 40 sectors in 18 European countries. The findings...

We exploit an expansion in social protection to middle-income households to provide evidence on how middle-income households cope with economic shocks and how to build their resilience. We use a regression discontinuity design around the eligibility cutoff for a program that delivered monthly...