I am gradually adding to this site the citations and full text (where allowed by copyright) to all of my published and unpublished writings. You can browse or search the site. You can also sign up to receive notification of all new uploads or only those uploads meeting the content criteria that you specify. Biographical sketch: Education: PhD. (1998), Economics, University of Birmingham, England. M.So.C. (1994), International Economics, University of Birmingham, England. BA (1990), Economics, Universidad de Valencia, Spain. Academic Positions: Invited Professor of Economics, University of Göttingen, Germany, 2006-2009. Assistant Professor of Economics, Universidad Jaime I, Spain, 1998-present. Researcher in the Instituto de Economía Internacional, Spain, 1995-present. Lecturer of Economics, Universidad Jaime I, Spain, 1991-1998.
Articles
Determinants of maritime transport costs - a panel data analysis (with Gordon Wilmsmeier), Transportation Planning and Technology (2010)
This paper analyses the determinants of maritime transport costs for intra-Latin American trade over a...
Aid and Trade – A Donor’s Perspective (with Felicitas Nowak-Lehmann D., Stephan Klasen, and Dierk Herzer), Journal of Development Studies (2009)
One reason donors provide foreign aid is to support their exports to aid-recipient countries. Time...
Are Regional Trading Agreements Beneficial? Static and Dynamic Panel Gravity Models (with Felicitas Nowak-Lehmann D. and Nicholas Horsewood), North American Journal of Economics and Finance (2009)
This paper evaluates the effects of preferential agreements on trade between trade group members and...
Does German Development Aid Promote German Exports? (with Felicitas Nowak-Lehmann D., Stephan Klasen, and Mario Larch), German Economic Review (2009)
This paper uses a static and dynamic gravity model of trade to investigate the link...
Unit Values, Productivity, and Trade - Determinants of Spanish Export Strength (with Felicitas Nowak-Lehmann D. and Sebastian Vollmer), Global Economic Journal (2009)
In this paper we assess the current relevance of different sources of international competitiveness. Relative...
Contributions to Books
EU-ACP ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENTS (with Sebastian Vollmer, Nils Klann, and Felicitas Nowak-Lehmann D.), World Development Report 2009-Development in 3D: Density, Distance, Division (2009)
We estimate the welfare effects of the Economic Partnership Agreements between the EU and nine...
Unpublished Papers
Determinants of the dynamics of the European Union integration process: An ordered logit approach (with Laura Marquez and Celes Suarez) (2009)
This research has three main aims: firstly, to empirically analyse the determinants of different levels...
Trade as Aid: The Role of the EBA-Trade Preferences Regime in the Development Strategy (with Katerina Gradeva), Ibero America Institute for Econ. Research (IAI) Discussion Papers N 197 (2009)
This study focuses primarily on trade preferences offered by the European Union (EU) and in...
The Impact of Urbanization on CO2 Emissions: Evidence from Developing Countries, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei Working Papers (2008)
This paper analyzes the impact of urbanization on CO2 emissions in developing countries. In this...