advantage of a gravity specification of bilateral trade between the seventeen Spanish regions and EU-13 countries over the … concentration of currency union effects in a few regions, namely those relatively more open to trade, though such effects are found …

regions that share similar behavior can be identifi ed. The identifi cation of these different groups should reveal … regions and the countries that were left out of the single currency. It is also noteworthy that, despite the effect of the … euro, important singularities remain between the German regions, on the one hand, and between those of Greece, Portugal and …

heterogeneity and we identify five different groups of European regions ; (ii) the groups are characterized as follows: the first … contains most of the Greek regions ; groups two and three include, in most cases, regions from Germany (plus a couple of … regions from southern European countries in group two and some regions of the core countries in group three) ; group four is …

methodological framework to jointly obtain business cycle datings and clusters of regions that share similar business cycle …

Rationale Economic convergence measured by income per capita refers to the process whereby lower income regions post … this phenomenon and investigate its possible causes. Takeaways •Economic convergence between the Spanish regions was … especially pronounced in regions with higher income per capita, has helped to narrow the differences, albeit not sufficiently to …

sluggish. •Overall, the regions where turnover performed more positively over the last 12 months are those which in mid-2022 …

We examine the intersection of patents and antitrust where a patentholder uses the monopoly power it possesses in the … market. The present scheme forawarding patents cannot judge when the issuance of a patent will lead tothe appropriate balance … competence to ensure that patents do not cause economic stagnationand harm by permitting a patent holder to extend its monopoly …

, through patents, exposes new firms to undesired spillovers. The second essay exploits asymmetric effects on success and …