Barrios, Salvador, Mas, Matilde, Navajas, Elena, Quesada, Javier
Factual evidence suggests that ICT-led growth and ICT-producing sectors are strongly localised geographically. Given that the nature of ongoing technological change and innovation dynamics has a...
Barrios, Salvador, Benito Ostolaza, Juan Miguel
We examine the way in which differences in language and culture may affect direct investment decisions. We use a discrete choice approach to model the location decisions of multinationals in which...
Economic Co-fluctuations between UK Regions and Continental Europe (2007)
Salvador Barrios, Marius Brülhart, Marianne Sensier
The stubbornly asynchronous nature of UK and EU business cycles is often said to set the UK economy apart from its continental neighbours, and in particular to raise the cost of UK participation in...
Demand- and Supply-Driven Externalities in OECD Countries: A Dynamic Panel Approach (2007)
Documento De Trabajo, Salvador Barrios, Salvador Barrios, Federico Trionfetti, Federico Trionfetti
This version: FEDEA Working Paper 2002-10. Downloadable from www.fedea.es This paper provides empirical evidence of the relevance of supply- and demand-driven externalities in determining sectoral...
European Commission Training and Mobility of Researchers (2007)
Salvador Barrios, Documento De Trabajo, Jacques Mélitz, Patrick Messerlin, Eric Strobl, Ellen Voigt, ...
* This work has benefited from comments received during visits
Explaining Firms ’ Export Behaviour: The Role of R&D and Spillovers* by (2007)
Salvador Barrios, Holger Görg, Eric Strobl, Documento De Trabajo
to whom we are also grateful.
Barrios, Salvador, Burgelman, Jean-Claude
The renewed Lisbon strategy puts special emphasis on the potential role that Information and Communication Technologies can play in meeting the challenges of boosting growth, competitiveness and...
EXPLORING THE LINK BETWEEN LOCAL AND GLOBAL KNOWLEDGE SPILLOVERS (2007)
Barrios, Salvador, Bertinelli, Luisito, Heinen, Andreas
We measure the effect of R&D spillovers on plant productivity by taking account of (i) the national origin of the spillovers, (ii) the mechanism through which spillovers may flow (FDI and/or...
EXPLORING THE LINK BETWEEN LOCAL AND GLOBAL KNOWLEDGE SPILLOVERS (2007)
Barrios, Salvador, Bertinelli, Luisito, Heinen, Andreas, Strobl, Eric
We measure the effect of R&D spillovers on plant productivity by taking account of (i) the national origin of the spillovers, (ii) the mechanism through which spillovers may flow (FDI and/or...
The dynamics of Agglomeration: Evidence from Ireland and Portugal (2004)
Barrios, Salvador, Bertinelli, Luisito, Strobl, Eric, Teixeira, Antonio Carlos
This paper analyses and compares the dynamics of agglomeration in Portuguese and Irish manufacturing industries between 1985 and 1998 implementing Dumais, Ellison and Glaeser (2002)'s methodology....
The Impact of Climatic Change on Agricultural Production: Is it different for Africa? (2004)
Barrios, Salvador, Ouattara, Bazoumanna, Strobl, Eric
This paper examines the impact of climatic change on the level of total agricultural production of Sub-Sahara Africa (SSA) and non-Sub-Sahara Africa (NSSA) developing countries. In doing so it uses a...
Barrios, Salvador, Bertinelli, Luisito, Eric, Strobl, Antonio Carlos, Teixeira
We investigate and compare the spatial distribution of manufacturing activity and its determinants in Belgium, Ireland, and Portugal using comparable, exhaustive micro-level data sets. We find some...
Dry Times in Africa: Rainfall and Africa's Growth Performance (2003)
Barrios, Salvador, Bertinelli, Luisito, Strobl, Eric
While there have been some references in the literature to the potential role of the general decline in rainfall in sub-Saharan African nations on their poor growth performance relative to other...
INDUSTRY MOBILITY AND GEOGRAPHIC CONCENTRATION IN THE EUROPEAN UNION (2003)
We study the pattern of geographic concentration of industries in EU countries and regions between 1972 and 1995. We find that changes in concentration levels were mainly due to industry mobility...
Integración económica y efecto frontera en la Península Ibérica (2002)
Lucio, Juan José De, Barrios, Salvador
Este trabajo muestra que España y Portugal han experimentado un fuerte proceso de integración durante el último cuarto del siglo XX. La mayor coordinación de las economías ha derivado en una...
Integración económica y efecto frontera en la Península Ibérica (2002)
Este trabajo muestra que España y Portugal han experimentado un fuerte proceso de integración durante el último cuarto del siglo XX. La mayor coordinación de las economías ha derivado en una...
Foreign Direct Investment and Productivity Spillovers: Evidence from the Spanish Experience (2002)
The aim of this paper is to analyse the impact of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) on firm productivity using an establishment-level panel of Spanish manufacturing industry that spans the period...
Efficiency Spillovers from Foreign Direct (2002)
Investment In The, Salvador Barrios, Sophia Dimelis, Helen Louri, Eric Strobl, Documento De Trabajo
Despite a growing number of empirical studies on efficiency spillovers arising from the presence of multinational firms for a number of countries, general conclusions on this issue have been...
Industry Mobility and Concentration (2002)
In The European, Documento De Trabajo, Fedea D. T, Salvador Barrios, Salvador Barrios, Eric Strobl, ...
We study the pattern of concentration of industries in EU countries and regions between 1972 and 1995. We find that changes in concentration levels were mainly due to industry mobility rather than...
En este trabajo estudiamos las relaciones entre las inversiones extranjeras directas y el comercio internacional para la economía española. Después de presentar los principales aspectos teóricos...
Foreign Direct Investment and Productivity Spillovers
The aim of this paper is to analyse the impact of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) on firm productivity using an establishment-level panel of Spanish manufacturing industry that spans the period...
Multinational Enterprises and New Trade Theory: Evidence for the Convergence Hypothesis
Salvador Barrios, Holger Görg, Eric Strobl
According to the 'convergence hypothesis' multinational companies will tend to displace national firms and trade as total market size increases and as countries converge in relative size, factor...
Explaining Firms' Export Behaviour: The Role of R&D and Spillovers
Salvador Barrios, Holger Görg, Eric Strobl
We examine the importance of a firm's own R&D activity and intra-sectoral spillovers on the decision to export and the export intensity using firm level panel data for Spain for the period 1990 to...
Economic Integration and Regional Business Cycles: Evidence from the Iberian regions
The present paper provides evidence on the impact of economic integration on EU regions' business cycles convergence by focusing on the Spanish and Portuguese experiences. We use quarterly as well as...
Salvador Barrios, Sophia Dimelis, Helen Louri, Eric Strobl
Despite a growing number of empirical studies on efficiency spillovers arising from the presence of multinational firms for a number of countries, general conclusions on this issue have been...
Learning by Doing and Spillovers: Evidence from Firm-Level Panel Data
We extend the Bahk and Gort (1993) approach of testing for the impact of learning by doing (LBD) on firm productivity using data on a panel of Spanish manufacturing firms over the 1990-1998 period....
Demand- and Supply-Driven Externalities in OECD Countries: A Dynamic Panel Approach
Salvador Barrios, Federico Trionfetti.
This paper provides empirical evidence of the relevance of supply- and demand-driven externalities in determining sectoral employment growth for 18 industrial sectors on a set of OECD countries. The...
Industry Mobility and Concentration in the European Union
We study the pattern of concentration of industries in EU countries and regions between 1972 and 1995. We find that changes in concentration levels were mainly due to industry mobility rather than...
Salvador Barrios, Holger Görg, Eric Strobl
This paper analyses the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the development of local firms. We focus on two likely effects of FDI: a competition effect which deters entry of domestic firms...
Coagglomeration and Spillovers
Eric Strobl, Luisito Bertinelli, Salvador Barrios
We study the coagglomeration of domestic plants and foreign multinationals and the impact of this on domestic plant productivity and employment using data for Irish manufacturing. Relying on a...
Climatic Change and Rural-Urban Migration: The Case of Sub-Saharan Africa
Eric Strobl, Luisito Bertinelli, Salvador Barrios
We investigate the role that climatic change has played in the pattern of urbanization in sub-Saharan countries compared to the rest of the developing world. To this end we assemble a cross-country...
The dynamics of regional inequalities
Eric Strobl,, Salvador Barrios
This paper analyses empirically the link between regional inequalities and economic development. Our starting hypothesis in this regard is that the evolution of regional inequalities should follow a...
The Evolution of the Firm Size Distribution and Nationality of Ownerhship
Salvador Barrios, Holger Gorg, Eric Strobl
It has recently been shown that the firm size distribution is initially skewed to the right and then evolves over time to become more lognormal, and argued that this is likely due to firms initially...
The Evolution of the Firm Size Distribution and Nationality of Ownerhship
Eric Barrios, Salvador Barrios, Holger Goerg
It has recently been shown that the firm size distribution is initially skewed to the right and then evolves over time to become more lognormal, and argued that this is likely due to firms initially...
Barrios, Salvador, Bertinelli, Luisito, Strobl, Eric
We study the coagglomeration of domestic plants and foreign multinationals and the impact of this on domestic plant growth using data for Irish manufacturing. To this end we make use of the index...
Multinational Enterprises and New Trade Theory: Evidence for the Convergence Hypothesis
Salvador Barrios, Holger Görg, Eric Strobl
According to the 'convergence hypothesis' multinational companies will tend to displace national firms and trade as total market size increases and as countries converge in relative size, factor...
GEOGRAPHIC CONCENTRATION AND ESTABLISHMENT SCALE: AN EXTENSION USING PANEL DATA
Salvador Barrios, Luisito Bertinelli, Eric Strobl
In a recent study, Holmes and Stevens (2002) identify for the first time the positive relationship that exists between establishment scale and local industry concentration using a large...
Economic Integration and Regional Business Cycles: Evidence from the Iberian Regions
Salvador Barrios, Juan Jose Lucio
This paper provides evidence of the positive impact of economic integration on EU regions' business cycles convergence by focusing on two neighbouring countries: Spain and Portugal. We show that...
A Tale of Two Cycles: Co-Fluctuations Between UK Regions and the Euro Zone
Salvador Barrios, Marius Br¸lhart, Marianne Sensier
We examine the patterns and determinants of business cycle correlations among 11 UK regions and six euro-zone countries over the 1966-97 period, using the generalized method of moments to allow for...
Explaining Firms' Export Behaviour: R&D, Spillovers and the Destination Market
Salvador Barrios, Holger Goerg, Eric Strobl
We examine the importance of a firm's own R&D activity and intra-sectoral spillovers on the decision to export and the export intensity using firm level panel data for Spain for the period 1990-98....
The dynamics of agglomeration: evidence from Ireland and Portugal
Barrios, Salvador, Bertinelli, Luisito, Strobl, E., Teixeira, Antonio-Carlos
Learning by Doing and Spillovers: Evidence from Firm-Level Panel Data
In this paper we extend the Bahk and Gort (1993) (Journal of Political Economy, 101, 561–583) approach of testing for the impact of learning by doing (LBD) on firm productivity using data on a...
Multinational Enterprises and New Trade Theory: Evidence for the Convergence Hypothesis
Barrios, Salvador, Görg, Holger, Strobl, Eric
According to the ‘convergence hypothesis’, multinational companies will tend to displace national firms and trade as total market size increases and as countries converge in relative size, factor...
Barrios, Salvador, Bertinelli, Luisito, Strobl, Eric
Using plant-level data for the Irish manufacturing sector over the period 1983-98, we study the coagglomeration of domestic plants and foreign multinationals in Ireland. To this end we make use of...
Salvador Barrios, Sophia Dimelis, Helen Louri, Eric Strobl
FDI, multinationals, productivity, spillovers,
The impact of climatic change on agricultural production: Is it different for Africa?
Barrios, Salvador, Ouattara, Bazoumana, Strobl, Eric
This paper examines the impact of climatic change on the level of total agricultural production of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and non-Sub-Sahara Africa (NSSA) developing countries. In doing so it uses...
Multinationals and regional indigenous development
Salvador Barrios, Luisito Bertinelli, Eric Strobl
F23, R11, R12,
Dry Times in Africa: Rainfall and Africa's Growth Performance
Barrios, Salvador, Bertinelli, Luisito, Strobl, Eric
While there have been some references in the literature to the potential role of the general decline in rainfall in sub-Saharan African nations on their poor growth performance relative to other...
The dynamics of Agglomeration: Evidence from Ireland and Portugal
Barrios, Salvador, Bertinelli, Luisito, Strobl, Eric, Teixeira, Antonio Carlos
This paper analyses and compares the dynamics of agglomeration in Portuguese and Irish manufacturing industries between 1985 and 1998 implementing Dumais, Ellison and Glaeser (2002)'s methodology....
Barrios, Salvador, Bertinelli, Luisito, Eric, Strobl, Antonio Carlos, Teixeira
We investigate and compare the spatial distribution of manufacturing activity and its determinants in Belgium, Ireland, and Portugal using comparable, exhaustive micro-level data sets. We find some...
Barrios, Salvador, Burgelman, Jean-Claude
The renewed Lisbon strategy puts special emphasis on the potential role that Information and Communication Technologies can play in meeting the challenges of boosting growth, competitiveness and...
EXPLORING THE LINK BETWEEN LOCAL AND GLOBAL KNOWLEDGE SPILLOVERS
Barrios, Salvador, Bertinelli, Luisito, Heinen, Andreas, Strobl, Eric
We measure the effect of R&D spillovers on plant productivity by taking account of (i) the national origin of the spillovers, (ii) the mechanism through which spillovers may flow (FDI and/or...
The Impact of Climatic Change on Agricultural Production: Is it different for Africa?
Barrios, Salvador, Ouattara, Bazoumanna, Strobl, Eric
This paper examines the impact of climatic change on the level of total agricultural production of Sub-Sahara Africa (SSA) and non-Sub-Sahara Africa (NSSA) developing countries. In doing so it uses a...
Mapping the ICT in EU Regions: Location, Employment, Factors of Attractiveness and Economic Impact
Barrios, Salvador, Mas, Matilde, Navajas, Elena, Quesada, Javier
Factual evidence suggests that ICT-led growth and ICT-producing sectors are strongly localised geographically. Given that the nature of ongoing technological change and innovation dynamics has a...
International Taxation and Multinational Firm Location Decisions
Salvador Barrios, Harry Huizinga, Luc Laeven, Gaëtan Nicodème
Using a large international firm-level data set, we estimate separate effects of host and parent country taxation on the location decisions of multinational firms. Both types of taxation are...
International Taxation and Multinational Firm Location Decisions
Salvador Barrios, Harry Huizinga, Luc Laeven, Gaëtan Nicodème
Using a large international firm-level data set, we estimate separate effects of host and parent country taxation on the location decisions of multinational firms. Both types of taxation are...
Climatic change and rural-urban migration: the case of sub-Saharan Africa
BARRIOS, Salvador, BERTINELLI, Luisito, STROBL, Eric
We investigate the role that climatic change has played in the pattern of urbanization in sub- Saharan African countries compared to the rest of the developing world. To this end we assemble a...
We examine the way in which differences in language and culture may affect direct investment decisions. We use a discrete choice approach to model the location decisions of multinationals in which...
Multinationals and local indigenous development
BARRIOS, Salvador, BERTINELLI, Luisito, STROBL, Eric
We investigate in how far foreign multinationals have fostered local indigenous development in Ireland. Specifically, we examine whether foreign presence has induced indigenous net plant entry within...
Multinationals' location choice, agglomeration economies and public incentives
BARRIOS, Salvador, GORG, Holger, STROBL, Eric
We study the regional location of multidimensionals in Ireland since the 1970s by focusing on the role played by agglomeration economies and public incentives intent on dispersing industrial activity...
Geographic concentration and establishment scale: can panel data tell us more ?
BARRIOS, Salvador, BERTINELLI, Luisito, STROBL, Eric
In a recent study, Holmes and Stevens (2002) identify for the first time a positive relationship that exists between establishment scale and local industry concentration using a large cross-sectional...
Industry mobility and geographic concentration in the European Union
BARRIOS, Salvador, STROBL, Eric
We study the pattern of geographic concentration of industries in EU countries and regions between 1972 and 1995. We find that changes in concentration levels were mainly due to industry mobility...
Dry times in Africa: Rainfall and Africa's growth performance
BARRIOS, Salvador, BERTINELLI, Luisito, STROBL, Eric
While there have been some references in the literature to the potential role of the general decline in rainfall in sub-Saharan African nations on their poor growth performance relative to other...
BARRIOS, Salvador, BERTINELLI, Luisito, STROBL, Eric, TEIXEIRA, Antonio Carlos
We investigate and compare the spatial distribution of manufacturing activity and its determinants in Belguim, Ireland, and Portugal using comparable, exhaustive micro-level data sets.We find some...
The dynamics of agglomeration : evidence from Ireland and Portugal
BARRIOS, Salvador, BERTINELLI, Luisito, STROBL, Eric, TEIXEIRA, Antonio Carlos
This paper analyses and compares the dynamics of agglomeration in Portuguese and Irish manufacturing industries between 1985 and 1998 implementing Dumais, Ellison and Glaeser (2002) methodology....
Foreign direct investment, competition and industrial development in the host country
BARRIOS, Salvador, GïRG, Holger, STROBL, Eric
This paper analyses the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the development of local firms. We focus on two likely of FDI: a competition effect which deters entry of domestic firms and...
The evolution of the firm size distribution and nationality of ownership
BARRIOS, Salvador, GORG, Holger, STROBL, Eric
It has recently been shown that the firm size distribution is initially skewed to the right and then evolves over time to become more lognormal, and argued that this is likely due to firms initially...
BARRIOS, Salvador, BERTINELLI, Luisito, STROBL, Eric
Using plant-level data for the Irish manufacturing sector over the period 1983-98, we study the coagglomeration of domestic plants and foreign multinationals in Ireland. To this end we make use of...
Economic integration and regional business cycles: Evidence from the Iberian regions
BARRIOS, Salvador, De LUCIO, Juan JosŽ
This paper provides evidence of the positive impact of economic integration on EU regions' business cycles convergence by focusing on two neighbouring countries: Spain and Portugal. We show that...
International Taxation and Multinational Firm Location Decisions
Salvador Barrios, Harry Huizinga, Luc Laeven
Using a large international firm-level data set, we estimate separate effects of host and parent country taxation on the location decisions of multinational firms. Both types of taxation are...
International Taxation and Multinational Firm Location Decisions
Barrios, Salvador, Huizinga, Harry, Laeven, Luc, Nicodeme, Gaetan
Using a large international firm-level data set, we estimate separate effects of host and parent country taxation on the location decisions of multinational firms. Both types of taxation are...
International Taxation and Multinational Firm Location Decisions
Salvador Barrios, Luc Laeven, Harry Huizinga, Gaetan Nicodeme
Using a large international firm-level data set, we estimate separate effects of host and parent country taxation on the location decisions of multinational firms. Both types of taxation are...
The dynamics of regional inequalities
Barrios, Salvador, Strobl, Eric
This paper analyses the link between regional inequalities and GDP per capita at the country-level. Our starting hypothesis is that the evolution of regional inequalities should follow a bell-shaped...
Spillovers through backward linkages from multinationals: Measurement matters!
Barrios, Salvador, Görg, Holger, Strobl, Eric
We argue that the measures of backward linkages used in recent papers on spillovers from multinational companies are potentially problematic, as they depend on a number of restrictive assumptions,...
Spillovers through backward linkages from multinationals: Measurement matters!
Salvador Barrios, Holger Görg, Eric Strobl
We argue that the measures of backward linkages used in recent papers on spillovers from multinational companies are potentially problematic, as they depend on a number of restrictive assumptions,...
Spillovers Through Backward Linkages from Multinationals: Measurement Matters!
Barrios, Salvador, Görg, Holger, Strobl, Eric
We argue that the measures of backward linkages used in recent papers on spillovers from multinational companies are potentially problematic, as they depend on a number of restrictive assumptions,...