Inmaculada Martinez-Zarzoso
Biographic Data
| ID | 876063 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Inmaculada Martinez-Zarzoso |
| GIVEN NAMES | Inmaculada |
| FAMILY NAME | Martinez-Zarzoso |
| SIGNATURE | MARTINEZ-ZARZOSO I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat Jaume I |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3247-8557 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 123 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Asylum seekers’ response to political risk in their countries of origin: New evidence for asylum inflows to the OECD
This paper quantifies the importance of political push factors as drivers of asylum migration for a global sample of 84 origin and 31 OECD destination countries over the period 2000–2023. Political push factors include political terror, civil liberties, political rights, and broader political risk factors. We estimate a gravity model using a Poisson pseudo maximum likelihood estimator with high-dimensional fixed effects, controlling for asylum re…
Global trends of pandemic-prone and epidemic-prone disease outbreaks in 2024
During 2024, the number of pandemic-prone and epidemic-prone disease outbreaks worldwide was estimated at 301. The data highlight a shift in disease outbreak patterns, with a decline in the number of countries reporting public health events of concern linked to COVID-19 and a rise in those reporting outbreaks of viral diseases transmitted by vectors. About 90% of the outbreaks in 2024 were associated with COVID-19, dengue, yellow fever, Oropouche…
Global challenges and developing economies: Strategies for inclusive and sustainable growth
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The impact of automation on labour market outcomes in emerging countries
The labour market effects of automation have gained significant attention from scholars and policymakers. Concerns about negative effects are important in emerging countries, where a rapid acceleration of robot adoption and an increasing involvement in global value chains have been observed in recent years, with the subsequent increase in exposure to foreign competition. This paper estimates the effect of local and foreign robots on labour market…
The impact of migration on wages in Costa Rica
In recent years, Costa Rica has experienced greater international migration from neighboring countries due to political, economic, and social reasons, raising discussions on the impact of migration on wages of native Costa Rican workers. This article is the first that disentangles the impact of migration on wages for native Costa Ricans from the impact for settled immigrants by analyzing the effect within groups of education, experience, and regi…
Rural credit acquisition for family farming in Brazil: Evidence from the Legal Amazon
Global value chains and firms’ environmental performance
The impact of Covid‐19 government responses on remittances in Latin American countries
Workers' remittances declined sharply as the COVID‐19 pandemic spread in the first half of 2020, rebounding in the second half. This paper analyses the impact of containment and economic support measures on remittances sent to Latin America during 2019–2020 using a gravity model estimated with the Poisson pseudo‐maximum likelihood estimator (PPML). Results show that containment measures in receiving countries mainly explain the fall in remittance…
The impact of free trade agreements on Middle East and North Africa exports of intermediate and final goods
This paper is the first to analyse the impact of free trade agreements (FTAs) and the harmonisation of rules of origin (RoO) on Middle East and North African (MENA) countries’ exports differentiating between final and intermediate goods for a global sample of trade partners. Data on exports from four MENA countries (Egypt, Jordan, Morocco and Tunisia) to 61 destinations over the period 1995–2016 are used to estimate a structural gravity model app…
What Drives Africa’s Inability to Comply with EU Standards? Insights from Africa’s Institution and Trade Facilitation Measures
Over the years, there have been a significant number of Africa’s food exports rejected at the European Union (EU) borders due to their non-compliance with EU food safety standards. This paper, therefore, provides an in-depth investigation of the potential causes of the non-compliance of Africa’s food exports to EU food standards and the subsequent rejection of such food exports at its borders. We contribute to the literature by investigating the …
Prioridades estratégicas en la ayuda española al desarrollo y su relación con el comercio exterior durante el periodo 1997-2016
Este trabajo presenta un análisis de la distribución geográfica y sectorial de la ayuda española al desarrollo y examina la complementariedad de la política comercial con la política de cooperación en las últimas décadas. La metodología consiste en examinar los datos de ayuda exterior y estimar un modelo de gravedad para analizar la relación entre las exportaciones bilaterales de España con países en desarrollo y la ayuda bilateral. Los resultado…
Sending money home: Transaction cost and remittances to developing countries
Reducing the cost of remitting is one of the targets within the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG 10). A key factor that causes migrants to use informal channels when sending money back home is the high cost of transferring funds through formal channels. This study examines whether and to what extent the reduction in the cost of sending remittances increases the flow of remittances to developing countries, and whether larger amounts are rem…
Migration and Asylum Flows to Germany: New Insights Into the Motives
This study analyzes the determinants of both total migration and asylum migration to Germany. For the analysis, a comprehensive empirical model is set up that includes climate change, economic opportunities, such as per capita income differentials, links to Germany, home country characteristics (population growth, poverty, consumer confidence, unemployment), the political and institutional situation in the sending countries (measured by internal …
Introduction to Migration and Refugee Flows: New Insights
Population movements between countries and continents are not recent phenomena. What is new today is that migration flows are increasingly linked to the globalization process and to environmental degradation. Most of the migrants leave their homes for economic reasons, but also due to the higher frequency of natural disasters. Of the total migrant population, those who escape from conflicts or persecution still represent a smaller fraction and ar…
Standards and political connections: Evidence from Tunisia
Searching for Grouped Patterns of Heterogeneity in the Climate–Migration Link
This paper investigates the extent to which international migration can be explained by climate change and whether this relationship varies systematically between groups of countries. The primary focus is to further investigate the heterogeneous effect found for countries with different income levels using a yearly migration dataset and allowing the country grouping to be data driven. For this purpose, a recently proposed statistical technique is…
Exporting and firm productivity: Evidence for Egypt and Morocco
This paper investigates the link between exporting and importing activities and firm performance using a rich dataset on Egyptian and Moroccan firms. We test the export premium, self-selection and learning-by-exporting hypotheses using a number of firm characteristics. Our analysis also includes importing activities as a source of learning and considers their effects on productivity changes. A differences-in-differences matching estimator is used…
Introduction: Special issue on the environment, resources and pollution – new challenges for economic development
This special issue contains a selection of six articles in the field of environmental and resource economics, which were presented in INFER workshops and supported events over the last two years. The topics include the effects of income inequality and freedom of the press on environmental stringency; the trade-environment nexus in China; the behavior of cross-country growth rates with respect to resource abundance and dependence; a stochastic fro…
The impact of single windows on trade
This paper is the first that quantifies the impact of single windows (SWs) on international trade globally. SWs function as a single point of entry and exit of the goods traded internationally and are therefore intended to facilitate trade. Using a structural gravity model for a panel of 176 countries from 1995 to 2017, we apply a log–log and a Poisson pseudo‐maximum‐likelihood estimator (PPML) with multidimensional fixed effects to evaluate the …
The trade facilitation impact of the Chinese diaspora
Using an enhanced data set on the population share of overseas Chinese in 1970 and 1990, this paper analyses the impact of the Chinese diaspora on facilitating China's bilateral trade during the period 1973–2013. Our findings suggest substantial trade creation effects resulting from the presence of ethnic Chinese in the trade partner population. Diaspora impacts on Chinese bilateral imports are in general higher than those found for exports. Coet…
Effects of Foreign Aid on Income through International Trade
This article presents a review of recent studies that estimate the trade effects of foreign aid. It also provides new results obtained using panel data techniques to estimate the direct effects of aid on international trade accounting for countries’ participation in free trade agreements, and the indirect effects that aid exerts on income through trade. A structural gravity model of trade augmented with aid and free trade agreement variables is e…
Do deep and comprehensive regional trade agreements help in reducing air pollution
The Trade-off Between Income Inequality and Carbon Dioxide Emissions
Based on a substantially larger data set (in both regional and temporal coverage) than the\n\t\t\t\t existing literature, we investigate the theoretically ambiguous link between income inequality\n\t\t\t\t and per capita emissions using cross-country panel data. We find that the relationship depends\n\t\t\t\t on the level of income. Using an arguably superior group-fixed effects estimator, we show that\n\t\t\t\t for low and middle-income economie…
Melting ice, growing trade
Large reductions in Arctic sea ice, most notably in summer, coupled with growing interest in Arctic shipping and resource exploitation have renewed interest in the economic potential of the Northern Sea Route (NSR). Two key constraints on the future viability of the NSR pertain to bathymetry and the future evolution of the sea ice cover. Climate model projections of future sea ice conditions throughout the rest of the century suggest that even un…
Blessing or Curse: The Stabilizing Role of Remittances Compared with other Financial Flows
Flows of remittances to Pakistan are being increasingly viewed as a relatively attractive source of external finance, which can help to foster development and manage economic shocks. Remittances have become a major source of revenue, surpassing the volume of foreign direct investment (FDI) and official development assistance (ODA) that the country receives. This study focuses primarily on the stability, cyclicality and stabilization impacts of re…
The impact of urbanization on CO2 emissions: Evidence from developing countries
This paper analyzes the impact of urbanization on CO2 emissions in developing countries from 1975 to 2003. It contributes to the existing literature by examining the effect of urbanization, taking into account dynamics and the presence of heterogeneity in the sample of countries. The results show an inverted-U shaped relationship between urbanization and CO2 emissions. Indeed, the elasticity emission-urbanization is positive for low urbanization …
The Trade-off Between Income Inequality and Carbon Dioxide Emissions
Based on a substantially larger data set (in both regional and temporal coverage) than the\n\t\t\t\t existing literature, we investigate the theoretically ambiguous link between income inequality\n\t\t\t\t and per capita emissions using cross-country panel data. We find that the relationship depends\n\t\t\t\t on the level of income. Using an arguably superior group-fixed effects estimator, we show that\n\t\t\t\t for low and middle-income economie…
Do climate variations explain bilateral migration? A gravity model analysis
This paper investigates to what extent international migration can be explained by climatic variations. A gravity model of migration augmented with average temperature and precipitation in the country of origin is estimated using a panel data set of 142 sending countries for the period 1995 to 2006. We find two primary results. First, temperature is positively correlated with migration. Second, stronger changes in precipitation are also associate…
The Impact of a Customs Union between Turkey and the EU on Turkey's Exports to the EU
This article investigates Turkey's sectoral trade flows to the EU based on panel data from the period 1988 to 2002. Turkey's 16 most important export sectors are analysed. Emphasis is placed on the role of price competition, EU protection and transport costs in the export trade between Turkey and the EU. The empirical model used is an extended version of the gravity model. This study is also a contribution to the current discussion of whether Tur…
Global value chains and firms’ environmental performance
Standards and political connections: Evidence from Tunisia
Effects of Foreign Aid on Income through International Trade
This article presents a review of recent studies that estimate the trade effects of foreign aid. It also provides new results obtained using panel data techniques to estimate the direct effects of aid on international trade accounting for countries’ participation in free trade agreements, and the indirect effects that aid exerts on income through trade. A structural gravity model of trade augmented with aid and free trade agreement variables is e…
Do deep and comprehensive regional trade agreements help in reducing air pollution
Rural credit acquisition for family farming in Brazil: Evidence from the Legal Amazon
Blessing or Curse: The Stabilizing Role of Remittances Compared with other Financial Flows
Flows of remittances to Pakistan are being increasingly viewed as a relatively attractive source of external finance, which can help to foster development and manage economic shocks. Remittances have become a major source of revenue, surpassing the volume of foreign direct investment (FDI) and official development assistance (ODA) that the country receives. This study focuses primarily on the stability, cyclicality and stabilization impacts of re…
Aid and Its Impact on the Donor’s Export Industry: The Dutch Case
What Drives Africa’s Inability to Comply with EU Standards? Insights from Africa’s Institution and Trade Facilitation Measures
Over the years, there have been a significant number of Africa’s food exports rejected at the European Union (EU) borders due to their non-compliance with EU food safety standards. This paper, therefore, provides an in-depth investigation of the potential causes of the non-compliance of Africa’s food exports to EU food standards and the subsequent rejection of such food exports at its borders. We contribute to the literature by investigating the …
Free Trade Agreements, Institutions and the Exports of Eastern Partnership Countries
Following popular protests at home and the fall of the government, Ukraine reversed course and joined Georgia and Moldova in signing Association Agreements in June 2014. This article has two main aims. First, using a gravity model of trade, it estimates the effects of deep and shallow free trade agreements for the EaP (Eastern Partnership) states with Russia and the EU respectively. Second, by relating the outcomes of the first estimation to the …
The Impact of a Customs Union between Turkey and the EU on Turkey's Exports to the EU
This article investigates Turkey's sectoral trade flows to the EU based on panel data from the period 1988 to 2002. Turkey's 16 most important export sectors are analysed. Emphasis is placed on the role of price competition, EU protection and transport costs in the export trade between Turkey and the EU. The empirical model used is an extended version of the gravity model. This study is also a contribution to the current discussion of whether Tur…
Aid and Trade – A Donor's Perspective
One reason donors provide foreign aid is to support their exports to aid-recipient countries. Time series data for Germany suggests an average return of between US$1.04-$1.50 for each US dollar of aid spent by Germany. Although this is well below previous estimates, the value is robust to different specifications and econometric approaches. Interestingly, we find strong evidence of crowding out between bilateral donors in the sense that bilateral…
The impact of urbanization on CO2 emissions: Evidence from developing countries
This paper analyzes the impact of urbanization on CO2 emissions in developing countries from 1975 to 2003. It contributes to the existing literature by examining the effect of urbanization, taking into account dynamics and the presence of heterogeneity in the sample of countries. The results show an inverted-U shaped relationship between urbanization and CO2 emissions. Indeed, the elasticity emission-urbanization is positive for low urbanization …
Comment on Lof, Mekasha, and Tarp (2014)
Free Trade Agreements, Institutions and the Exports of Eastern Partnership Countries
Following popular protests at home and the fall of the government, Ukraine reversed course and joined Georgia and Moldova in signing Association Agreements in June 2014. This article has two main aims. First, using a gravity model of trade, it estimates the effects of deep and shallow free trade agreements for the EaP (Eastern Partnership) states with Russia and the EU respectively. Second, by relating the outcomes of the first estimation to the …
Do climate variations explain bilateral migration? A gravity model analysis
This paper investigates to what extent international migration can be explained by climatic variations. A gravity model of migration augmented with average temperature and precipitation in the country of origin is estimated using a panel data set of 142 sending countries for the period 1995 to 2006. We find two primary results. First, temperature is positively correlated with migration. Second, stronger changes in precipitation are also associate…
Melting ice, growing trade
Large reductions in Arctic sea ice, most notably in summer, coupled with growing interest in Arctic shipping and resource exploitation have renewed interest in the economic potential of the Northern Sea Route (NSR). Two key constraints on the future viability of the NSR pertain to bathymetry and the future evolution of the sea ice cover. Climate model projections of future sea ice conditions throughout the rest of the century suggest that even un…
Blessing or Curse: The Stabilizing Role of Remittances Compared with other Financial Flows
Flows of remittances to Pakistan are being increasingly viewed as a relatively attractive source of external finance, which can help to foster development and manage economic shocks. Remittances have become a major source of revenue, surpassing the volume of foreign direct investment (FDI) and official development assistance (ODA) that the country receives. This study focuses primarily on the stability, cyclicality and stabilization impacts of re…
Aid and Its Impact on the Donor’s Export Industry: The Dutch Case
The Trade-off Between Income Inequality and Carbon Dioxide Emissions
Based on a substantially larger data set (in both regional and temporal coverage) than the\n\t\t\t\t existing literature, we investigate the theoretically ambiguous link between income inequality\n\t\t\t\t and per capita emissions using cross-country panel data. We find that the relationship depends\n\t\t\t\t on the level of income. Using an arguably superior group-fixed effects estimator, we show that\n\t\t\t\t for low and middle-income economie…
Do deep and comprehensive regional trade agreements help in reducing air pollution
Effects of Foreign Aid on Income through International Trade
This article presents a review of recent studies that estimate the trade effects of foreign aid. It also provides new results obtained using panel data techniques to estimate the direct effects of aid on international trade accounting for countries’ participation in free trade agreements, and the indirect effects that aid exerts on income through trade. A structural gravity model of trade augmented with aid and free trade agreement variables is e…
Searching for Grouped Patterns of Heterogeneity in the Climate–Migration Link
This paper investigates the extent to which international migration can be explained by climate change and whether this relationship varies systematically between groups of countries. The primary focus is to further investigate the heterogeneous effect found for countries with different income levels using a yearly migration dataset and allowing the country grouping to be data driven. For this purpose, a recently proposed statistical technique is…
Exporting and firm productivity: Evidence for Egypt and Morocco
This paper investigates the link between exporting and importing activities and firm performance using a rich dataset on Egyptian and Moroccan firms. We test the export premium, self-selection and learning-by-exporting hypotheses using a number of firm characteristics. Our analysis also includes importing activities as a source of learning and considers their effects on productivity changes. A differences-in-differences matching estimator is used…
Introduction: Special issue on the environment, resources and pollution – new challenges for economic development
This special issue contains a selection of six articles in the field of environmental and resource economics, which were presented in INFER workshops and supported events over the last two years. The topics include the effects of income inequality and freedom of the press on environmental stringency; the trade-environment nexus in China; the behavior of cross-country growth rates with respect to resource abundance and dependence; a stochastic fro…
The impact of single windows on trade
This paper is the first that quantifies the impact of single windows (SWs) on international trade globally. SWs function as a single point of entry and exit of the goods traded internationally and are therefore intended to facilitate trade. Using a structural gravity model for a panel of 176 countries from 1995 to 2017, we apply a log–log and a Poisson pseudo‐maximum‐likelihood estimator (PPML) with multidimensional fixed effects to evaluate the …
The trade facilitation impact of the Chinese diaspora
Using an enhanced data set on the population share of overseas Chinese in 1970 and 1990, this paper analyses the impact of the Chinese diaspora on facilitating China's bilateral trade during the period 1973–2013. Our findings suggest substantial trade creation effects resulting from the presence of ethnic Chinese in the trade partner population. Diaspora impacts on Chinese bilateral imports are in general higher than those found for exports. Coet…
Sending money home: Transaction cost and remittances to developing countries
Reducing the cost of remitting is one of the targets within the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG 10). A key factor that causes migrants to use informal channels when sending money back home is the high cost of transferring funds through formal channels. This study examines whether and to what extent the reduction in the cost of sending remittances increases the flow of remittances to developing countries, and whether larger amounts are rem…
Migration and Asylum Flows to Germany: New Insights Into the Motives
This study analyzes the determinants of both total migration and asylum migration to Germany. For the analysis, a comprehensive empirical model is set up that includes climate change, economic opportunities, such as per capita income differentials, links to Germany, home country characteristics (population growth, poverty, consumer confidence, unemployment), the political and institutional situation in the sending countries (measured by internal …
Introduction to Migration and Refugee Flows: New Insights
Population movements between countries and continents are not recent phenomena. What is new today is that migration flows are increasingly linked to the globalization process and to environmental degradation. Most of the migrants leave their homes for economic reasons, but also due to the higher frequency of natural disasters. Of the total migrant population, those who escape from conflicts or persecution still represent a smaller fraction and ar…
Standards and political connections: Evidence from Tunisia
The impact of Covid‐19 government responses on remittances in Latin American countries
Workers' remittances declined sharply as the COVID‐19 pandemic spread in the first half of 2020, rebounding in the second half. This paper analyses the impact of containment and economic support measures on remittances sent to Latin America during 2019–2020 using a gravity model estimated with the Poisson pseudo‐maximum likelihood estimator (PPML). Results show that containment measures in receiving countries mainly explain the fall in remittance…
The impact of free trade agreements on Middle East and North Africa exports of intermediate and final goods
This paper is the first to analyse the impact of free trade agreements (FTAs) and the harmonisation of rules of origin (RoO) on Middle East and North African (MENA) countries’ exports differentiating between final and intermediate goods for a global sample of trade partners. Data on exports from four MENA countries (Egypt, Jordan, Morocco and Tunisia) to 61 destinations over the period 1995–2016 are used to estimate a structural gravity model app…
What Drives Africa’s Inability to Comply with EU Standards? Insights from Africa’s Institution and Trade Facilitation Measures
Over the years, there have been a significant number of Africa’s food exports rejected at the European Union (EU) borders due to their non-compliance with EU food safety standards. This paper, therefore, provides an in-depth investigation of the potential causes of the non-compliance of Africa’s food exports to EU food standards and the subsequent rejection of such food exports at its borders. We contribute to the literature by investigating the …
Prioridades estratégicas en la ayuda española al desarrollo y su relación con el comercio exterior durante el periodo 1997-2016
Este trabajo presenta un análisis de la distribución geográfica y sectorial de la ayuda española al desarrollo y examina la complementariedad de la política comercial con la política de cooperación en las últimas décadas. La metodología consiste en examinar los datos de ayuda exterior y estimar un modelo de gravedad para analizar la relación entre las exportaciones bilaterales de España con países en desarrollo y la ayuda bilateral. Los resultado…
Economics (28 works) · Geography (16 works) · Economic growth (14 works) · Business (11 works) · Econometrics (11 works) · International economics (11 works) · International trade (11 works) · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth (10 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (10 works) · Demographic economics (9 works)