I am gradually adding to this site the citations and full text (where allowed by copyright) to all of my published and unpublished writings.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-present. Professor of Economics, Universidad Jaime I, Spain, 2012-present. Associate Professor of Ecoomics, Universidad Jaime I, Spain,2003-2011. Assistant Professor of Economics, Universidad Jaime I, Spain,1998-2003. Researcher in the Instituto de Economía Internacional, Spain, 1995-present. Lecturer of Economics, Universidad Jaime I, Spain, 1991-1998.
Articles
Are RTA Agreements with Environmental Provisions Reducing Emissions? (with Leila Baghdadi and Habib Zitouna), Journal of International Economics (2013)
This paper investigates whether RTAs with environmental provisions affect relative and absolute pollution levels. In...
Does Foreign Aid Promote Recipient Exports to Donor Countries (with Felicitas Nowak-Lehmann D.), Review of World Economics (2013)
This paper uses the gravity model of trade to investigate the effect of foreign aid...
The price of modern maritime piracy (with Sami Bensassi), Defence and Peace Economics (2013)
A growing body of literature has recently focused on the economic origins and consequences of...
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...
Maritime Networks, Services Structure and Maritime Trade (with Gordon Wilmsmeier, Eva Pérez-García, and Laura M´qrquez-Ramos), Networks and Spatial Economics (2010)
This paper aims at investigating the relationship between maritime trade and maritime transport costs at...
Contributions to Books
Competitiveness: A Comparison of China and Mexico (with Felicitas Nowak-Lehman D. and Sebastian Vollmer), Dimensions of Competitiveness (2010)
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
FOREIGN AID, EXPORTS AND DEVELOPMENT IN EUROMED (with Felicitas Nowak-Lehmann and Florian Johannsen), Ibero-America Institute for Economic Research (2012)
This paper investigates the link between foreign aid and exports between the two shores of...
International Migration and Climate Change, Ibero-America Institute for Economic Research (2012)
This paper uses international migration data and climate variables in a multi-country setting to investigate...
Bilateral Trade Flows and Income-Distribution Similarity (with Sebastian Vollmer), Working Papers on International Economics and Finance (2011)
This paper accounts for non-homothetic preferences by specifically investigating the role of income per capita...
CEECs Integration into Regional and Global Production Networks (with Anca Voicu and Martina Vidovic) (2011)
We estimate a gravity model that incorporates the extensive margin of trade and accounts for...
How Costly is Modern Maritime Piracy to the International Community? (with Sami Bensassi) (2011)
This paper focuses on the impact of maritime piracy on international trade. Piracy increases the...