I am gradually adding to this site the citations and full text (where allowed by copyright) to all of my published and unpublished writings.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. Part time Associate Professor of Economics, Universidad Jaime I, Spain, 2003-present. 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
The price of modern maritime piracy (with Sami Bensassi), IAI Working Paper (2011)
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...
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...
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
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...
Trade in intermediate goods and regional production networks. An application for Latin America (with Marcelo Florensa, Laura Marquez-Ramos, and maria Luisa Recalde) (2011)
This paper quantifies the effects of two regional integration agreements in Latin America (LA), namely...
Economic integration and the two margins of trade: An application to the Euro-Mediterranean agreements (with Sami Bensassi and Laura Marquez-Ramos), CREMed Best Paper Award Winner, WP 2, December 2010 (2010)
According to trade theory preferential trade agreements increase international trade through a reduction in artificial...