Working Papers | Navarra Center for International Development

WP/2024

WP05/24

Avocados: Mexico’s green gold. The impact of the U.S. opioid crisis on Mexico’s drug cartel violence

Itzel De Haro López

WP04/24

Welfare Eligibility Manipulation: Evidence From Georgia

Brendon McConnell, Jaime Millán-Quijano

WP03/24

Do Homebuyers Value Energy Efficiency? Evidence From an Information Shock

Arpita Ghosh, Brendon McConnell, Jaime Millán-Quijano

WP02/24

Do Cooperatives Exercise Market Power?

Federico M. Accursi, Raúl Bajo-Buenestado

WP01/24

Rule of Law, Economic and Political Freedom: Conceptualization and Measurement

Ignacio Campomanes

WP/2023

WP04/23

How Labels and Vouchers Shape Unconditional Cash Transfers? Experimental Evidence from Georgia

Miguel Ángel Borrella Mas, Jaime Millán-Quijano, Anastasia Terskaya

WP03/23

Government Intervention and Collective Action: Induced Interaction Can Build Coordination

David Echeverry Pérez

WP02/23

Structural Identification of Social Preferences: Heterogeneity Matters for Incentives

David Echeverry Pérez, María Cristina Figueroa

WP01/23

Monetary policy invariance, hysteresis, and optimal inflation

Mirko Abbritti, Agostino Consolo, Sebastian Weber

WP/2022

WP05/22

Can Information and Alternatives to Irregular Migration Reduce “Backway” Migration from The Gambia?

Tijan Bah, Catia Batista, Flore Gubert, David McKenzie

WP04/22

Quality Matters: Power Reliability and Grid Connection in Rural Guatemala

Federico M. Accursi

WP03/22

Trends in Temperatures in Sub-Saharan Africa. Is There Climate Warming?

Luis Alberiko Gil-Alaña, Samuel Chibuzor

WP02/22

Inequality and Growth: How Social Mobility Reshapes The Main Theoretical Channels

Ignacio Campomanes

WP01/22

Market competition and the adoption of clean technology: evidence from the taxi industry

Raúl Bajo-Buenestado, Miguel Ángel Borrella Mas

WP/2021

WP05/21

How Has COVID-19 Affected the Intention to Migrate via the Backway to Europe and to a Neighboring African Country? Survey Evidence and a Salience Experiment in The Gambia

Tijan Bah, Catia Batista, Flore Gubert, David McKenzie

Publicado en:

World Bank - Policy Research Group

WP04/21

Detection of Trend Types in Surface Air Temperature in China

Xinxin Li, Yan-Fang Sang, Bellie Sivakumar, Luis Alberiko Gil-Alaña

WP03/21

Time Trends and Persistence in European Temperature Anomalies

Jacopo Lenti, Luis Alberiko Gil-Alaña

WP02/2021

Liquidity constraints and free post-secondary education. Evidence from Colombia

Jaime Millán-Quijano, Luis Fernando Gamboa

WP01/2021

Parental Human Capital Investment Responses to Children’s Disability

Anastasia Terskaya

WP/2020

WP05/2020

The Political Economy of Inequality, Mobility and Redistribution

Ignacio Campomanes

WP04/2020

Trade Relationships, Bargaining and Export Dynamics

Mirko Abbritti, Iván Kim , Tommaso Trani

WP03/2020

The Ocean and Early-Childhood Mortality

Alex Armand, Iván Kim

WP02/2020

The Effect of Blackouts on Households’ Electrification Status: evidence from Kenya

Raúl Bajo-Buenestado

WP01/2020

Oiling up the field. Forced internal displacement and the expansion of palm oil in Colombia

Jaime Millán-Quijano, Sebastián Pulgarín

WP/2019

WP03/2019

Making policies matter: Voter responses to campaign promises

Julien Labonne, Cesi Cruz, Philip Keefer, Francesco Trebbi

Publicado en:

National Bureau of Economic Research

WP02/2019

Ancestry and Development: New Evidence

Romain Wacziarg, Enrico Spolaore

Publicado en:

Journal of Applied Econometrics

WP01/2019

Does Information Break the Political Resource Curse? Experimental Evidence from Mozambique

Alex Armand, Pedro Vicente, Alexander Coutts, Inês Vilela

WP/2018

WP05/2018

Financial Access Under the Microscope

Camelia Minoiu

WP04/2018

Oil Price Shocks and Civil Conflict: Evidence from Nigeria

Arinze Nwokolo

WP03/2018

Multiple Equilibria in Open Economy Models with Collateral Constraints: Overborrowing Revisited

Stephanie Schmitt-Grohé, Martín Uribe

WP02/2018

Maternal Mortality and Women’s Political Participation

Joseph Flavian Gomes, Sonia Bhalotra, Damian Clarke, Atheendar Venkataramani

WP01/2018

Relationship-specificity, incomplete contracts, and the pattern of trade: a comment on the role of natural resources

Raúl Bajo-Buenestado

WP/2017

WP04/2017

The Health Costs of Ethnic Distance: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Joseph Flavian Gomes

WP03/2017

The effect of oil spills on infant mortality: Evidence from Nigeria

Anna Bruederle, Roland Hodler

WP02/2017

Demand Drops and Innovation Investments: Evidence from the Great Recession in Spain

Alex Armand, Pedro Mendi

WP01/2017

The Reach of Radio: Defection Messaging and Armed Group Behavior

Alex Armand, Joseph Flavian Gomes

WP/2016

WP09/2016

Gender Bias in Education During Conflict Evidence from Assam

Prakarsh Singh, Sutanuka Roy

WP08/2016

"Face the Bullet, Spare the Rod?" Evidence from the Aftermath of the Shining Path Insurgency

Prakarsh Singh, Alvaro Morales

WP07/2016

The Geography of Linguistic Diversity and the Provision of Public Goods

Klaus Desmet, Joseph Flavian Gomes, Ignacio Ortuño-Ortín

WP06/2016

The Effect of Gender-Targeted Conditional Cash Transfers on Household Expenditures: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

Alex Armand, Orazio Attanasio, Pedro Carneiro, Valérie Lechene

WP05/2016

Trends and Cycles in Historical Gold and Silver Prices

Luis Alberiko Gil-Alaña, Rangan Gupta, Goodness C. Aye

Publicado en:

Journal of International Money and Finance, Vol. 58

WP04/2016

The persistence of air pollution in four mega-cities of China

Luis Alberiko Gil-Alaña, Carlos Pestana Barros, Zhongfei Chen

Publicado en:

Habitat International, Vol. 56

WP03/2016

Trade Flows and Trade Specialisation: the Case of China

Guglielmo Maria Caporale, Anamaria Sova, Robert Sova

WP02/2016

Spillovers Between Food and Energy Prices And Structural Breaks

Guglielmo Maria Caporale, Alanoud Al-Maadid, Nicola Spagnolo

Publicado en:

International Economics

WP01/2016

Impact of caregiver incentives on child health: Evidence from an experiment with Anganwadi workers in India

Prakarsh Singh, William A. Masters

WP/2015

WP12/2015

African Growth, Non-Linearities and Strong Dependence: An Empirical Study

Borja Balparda, Guglielmo Maria Caporale, Luis Alberiko Gil-Alaña

WP11/2015

Exchange Rate Dynamics and Monetary Unions in Africa: A Fractional Integration and Cointegration Analysis

Borja Balparda, Luis Alberiko Gil-Alaña, Guglielmo Maria Caporale

Publicado en:

African Journal of Business Management, Vol. 9, No. 22

WP10/2015

Managing Innovation under Competitive Pressure from Informal Producers

Rodrigo Costamagna, Pedro Mendi

Publicado en:

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

WP09/2015

Monetary Policy in a Developing Country: Loan Applications and Real Effects

Camelia Minoiu, Charles Abuka, Ronnie K. Alinda, Jose-Luis Peydro, Andrea F. Presbitero

WP08/2015

Measuring and Changing Control: Women's Empowerment and Targeted Transfers

Alex Armand, Pedro Carneiro, Ingvild Almås, Orazio Attanasio

WP07/2015

Fractional integration and asymmetric volatility in european, asian and american bull and bear markets. applications to high frequency stock data

Luis Alberiko Gil-Alaña, OlaOluwa S. Yaya, Olarenwaju I. Shittu

Publicado en:

International Journal of Finance & Economics Vol. 20, Issue 3

WP06/2015

Persistence of precious metal prices: a fractional integration approach with structural breaks

Luis Alberiko Gil-Alaña, Shinhye Chang, Mehmet Balcilar, Goodness C. Aye, Rangan Gupta

Publicado en:

Resources Policy Vol. 44 - June 2015

WP05/2015

Performance Pay and Malnutrition: Evidence from an Experiment targeting Child Malnutrition in West Bengal

Prakarsh Singh, Sandip Mitra

WP04/2015

The Effect of Civil Conflict on Child Abuse: Evidence from Peru

Prakarsh Singh, Alvaro Morales

WP03/2015

Who wears the trousers in the family? Intra-household resource control, subjective expectations and human capital investment

Alex Armand

WP02/2015

Are Parental Perceived Returns to Schooling predicting Future Schooling Decisions? Evidence from Macedonia

Alex Armand

WP01/2015

Financial development, institutions and poverty alleviation: an empirical analysis

Alessandra Cepparulo, Juan C. Cuestas, Maurizio Intartaglia

WP/2014

WP05/2014

Do Institutions Alleviate Poverty? An Empirical Analysis

Maurizio Intartaglia, Juan Carlos Cuestas

WP04/2014

The relationship between oil prices and the Nigerian stock market. An analysis based on fractional integration and cointegration

Luis Alberiko Gil-Alaña, OlaOluwa S. Yaya

Publicado en:

Energy Economics, Vol. 46

WP03/2014

Competitive Pressure and Innovation in Vertically Differentiated Markets

Pedro Mendi

Publicado en:

Econmics Bulletin Volume 35, Issue 4

WP02/2014

The influence of services on firm productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa

Publicado en:

Journal of Emerging Issues in Economics, Finance and Banking, Vol. 3, Issue 1

WP01/2014

Long memory in Angolan macroeconomic series: mean reversion versus explosive behaviour

Luis Alberiko Gil-Alaña, Carlos Pestana Barros, Guglielmo Maria Caporale

Publicado en:

African Development Review, Vol. 26, No. 1

WP/2013

WP12/2013

On the persistence and volatility in European, American and Asian stocks bull and bear markets

Luis Alberiko Gil-Alaña, Olanrewaju L. Shittu, OlaOluwa S. Yaya

Publicado en:

Journal of International Money and Finance, Vol. 40

WP11/2013

Modelling volatility persistence and asymmetry: a study on selected Indian non-ferrous metals markets

Luis Alberiko Gil-Alaña, Trilochan Tripathy

Publicado en:

Resources Policy, Vol. 41

WP10/2013

Foreign direct investment in the Asian economies

Guglielmo Maria Caporale, Carlos Pestana Barros, Bruno Damásio

WP09/2013

Cooperation with the police in a diverse society: the case of South Africa

Álvaro Morcillo

WP08/2013

Network Effects and Infrastructure Productivity in Developing Countries

Bertrand Candelon, Gilbert Colletaz, Christophe Hurlin

Publicado en:

Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 75, Issue 6

WP07/2013

Banking Consolidation in Nigeria, 2000-2010

Carlos Pestana Barros, Guglielmo Maria Caporale

WP06/2013

Business Cycles, International Trade and Capital Flows: Evidence from Latin America

Guglielmo Maria Caporale, Alessandro Girardi

Publicado en:

Empirical Economics, Vol. 50, Issue 2

WP05/2013

Persistence, long memory and seasonality in Kenyan tourism series

Luis Alberiko Gil-Alaña, Robert Mudida

Publicado en:

Annals of Tourism Research, Vol. 46

WP04/2013

Multinational corporations as channels for international technology transfer: evidence from the South African innovation survey

Nazeem Mustapha, Pedro Mendi

Publicado en:

South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences, 18(1): 128-142.

WP03/2013

Return migration to South Africa: reasons and socioeconomic profile

Álvaro Morcillo, Rashmi Bhat

WP02/2013

Convergence of inflationary shocks: evidence from the Caribbean

Juan C. Cuestas, Carlyn Dobson

Publicado en:

The World Economy, Vol. 36, Issue 9

WP01/2013

Testing for persistence with breaks and outliers in South African house prices

Luis Alberiko Gil-Alaña, Goodness C. Aye, Rangan Gupta

Publicado en:

Journal of Real Estate Literature, Vol. 21, Issue 2

WP/2012

WP12/2012

Licensing policies in North-South technology transfers

Rafael Moner-Colonques, José J. Sempere-Monerris, Pedro Mendi

WP11/2012

A non-linear approach with long range dependence based on Chebyshev polynomials

Juan C. Cuestas, Luis Alberiko Gil-Alaña

WP10/2012

Testing the PPP hypothesis in the Sub-Saharan countries

Luis Alberiko Gil-Alaña, Guglielmo Maria Caporale

Publicado en:

Journal of African Studies and Development, Vol. 5, No. 4

WP09/2012

Testing the Marshall-Lerner condition in Kenya

Guglielmo Maria Caporale, Luis Alberiko Gil-Alaña, Robert Mudida

Publicado en:

South African Journal of Economics, Vol. 83, Issue 2

WP08/2012

Privatization in a polluting industry in the presence of foreign competition

Bouwe R. Dijkstra, Anuj J. Mathew, Arijit Mukherjee

Publicado en:

Journal of Economics, Vol. 114, Issue 3

WP07/2012

Natural resources, volatility and inclusive growth perspectives from the Middle East and North Africa

Rabah Arezki, Mustapha K. Nabli

WP06/2012

Nominal exchange rates in Kenya. Are shocks transitory or permanent? An empirical investigation based on fractional integration

Luis Alberiko Gil-Alaña, Robert Mudida

WP05/2012

Violence and the market for food. Evidence from Kenya

Prakarsh Singh, Luis Alberiko Gil-Alaña

Publicado en:

Journal of African Economies, Vol. 24, Issue 4

WP04/2012

Armed conflict, household victimization, and child health in Côte D’ivoire

Camelia Minoiu, Olga N. Shemyakina

Publicado en:

Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 108

WP03/2012

Investigating the oil price exchange rate nexus: evidence from Africa

Simeon Coleman, Juan C. Cuestas, Estefania Mourelle

WP02/2012

What drives the global land rush?

Rabah Arezki, Klaus Deininger, Harris Selod

Publicado en:

The World Bank Economic Review, Vol. 29, Issue 2

WP01/2012

Resource windfalls, macroeconomic stability and growth: the role of political institutions

Rabah Arezki, Kirk Hamilton, Kazim Kazimov

WP/2011

WP10/2011

Interest Rate Dynamics in Kenya: Commercial Banks' Rates and the 91-Day Treasury Bill Rate

Guglielmo Maria Caporale, Luis Alberiko Gil-Alaña

Publicado en:

Journal of International Development, Vol. 28, Issue 2

WP09/2011

Business cycle fluctuations, large macroeconomic shocks and development aid

Era Dabla-Norris, Camelia Minoiu, Luis Felipe Zanna

Publicado en:

World Development, Vol 69

WP08/2011

Empirical aspects of capital flight in Kenya, 1970-2009

Robert Mudida

WP07/2011

Commodity windfalls, polarization and net foreign assets: panel data evidence on the voracity effect

Rabah Arezki, Markus Brückner

Publicado en:

Journal of International Economics, Vol. 86, Issue 2

WP06/2011

Volatility spillovers and contagion from mature and emerging stock markets

John Beirne, Guglielmo Maria Caporale, Marianne Schulze-Ghattas, Nicola Spagnolo

WP05/2011

The relative volatility of commodity prices: a reappraisal

Rabah Arezki, Daniel Lederman, Hongyan Zhao

Publicado en:

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 96, Issue 3

WP04/2011

Long memory, structural breaks and mean shifts in the inflation rates in Nigeria

Luis Alberiko Gil-Alaña, Olanrewaju L. Shittu, OlaOluwa S. Yaya

Publicado en:

African Journal of Business Management, Vol. 6, No. 3

WP03/2011

Is there an asymmetric behaviour in African inflation? A non-linear approach

Juan C. Cuestas, Luis Alberiko Gil-Alaña, Estefania Mourelle

Publicado en:

South African Journal of Economics, Vol. 79, Issue 1

WP02/2011

Is information power? Using cell phones during an election campaign

Pedro Vicente, Paul Collier, Jenny C. Aker

WP01/2011

Food prices and political instability

Rabah Arezki, Markus Brückner

WP/2010

WP09/2010

Support for decentralization, quality of politicians and development

Facundo Albornoz, Antonio Cabrales

WP08/2010

Landmines

Jean-Louis Arcand, Aude-Sophie Rodella-Boitreaud, Matthias Rieger

Publicado en:

Economic Development and Cultural Change, Vol. 63, No. 2

WP07/2010

Indicators of employment discrimination at provincial level and their use for preventing intergroup social conflict

Álvaro Morcillo

WP06/2010

Tourism in South Africa. Time series persistence and the nature of shocks. Are they transitory or permanent?

Luis Alberiko Gil-Alaña

Publicado en:

African Journal of Business Management, Vol. 5, No. 12

WP05/2010

Inflation in South Africa. A time series view across sectors using long range dependence

Luis Alberiko Gil-Alaña

Publicado en:

South African Journal of Economics, Vol. 78, Issue 4

WP04/2010

Privatization under regulatory lobbying

Laura Valderrama

WP03/2010

Exchange rate uncertainty and international technology transfer

Rodrigo Costamagna, Pedro Mendi

Publicado en:

Economics Bulletin, 34(1): 551-557

WP02/2010

Intellectual property rights, Southern innovation and foreign direct investment

Anuj J. Mathew, Arijit Mukherjee

Publicado en:

International Review of Economics & Finance, Vol. 31

WP01/2010

Mean reversion and long memory in African stock market prices

Emmanuel Anoruo, Luis Alberiko Gil-Alaña

Publicado en:

Journal of Economics and Finance, Vol. 35, Issue 3

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