Juana Castillo

University of Valencia | UV · Departamento de Estructura Econòmica (Economía Aplicada II)

Efficient management and treatment of municipal waste is essential for achieving green growth. Recent studies have revealed convergence in European Union (EU) member states' performance in municipal waste treatment, particularly since the transposition of the 2008 European Waste Framework Directive into national laws. However, there are still notab...

This paper assesses performance and convergence in the treatment of municipal waste by the members of the European Union-27 (EU-27) during the period 1995–2016. First, a composite indicator of performance –including landfill, incineration, recycling, and composting and digestion as treatment operations– is computed with Data Envelopment Analysis an...

The impact of economic activity on the environment is a matter of growing concern for firm managers, policymakers, researchers and society as a whole. Building on previous work by Kortelainen (2008) [Dynamic environmental performance analysis: A Malmquist index approach. Ecological Economics 64, 701–715], we contribute an approach to assessing inte...

Eco-efficiency refers to the ability to produce more goods and services with less impact on the environment and less consumption of natural resources. This issue has become a matter of concern that is receiving increasing attention from politicians, scientists and researchers. Furthermore, greenhouse gases emitted as a result of production processe...

This paper assesses the convergence in eco-efficiency of a group of 22 OECD countries over the period 1980–2008. In doing so, three air pollutants representing the impact on the environment of economic activities are considered, namely, carbon dioxide ( ${\text{ CO}}_{2}$ ), nitrogen oxides ( ${\text{ NO}}_\mathrm{X}$ ) and sulphur oxides ( ${\t...

This paper is concerned with the issue of food security, placing special emphasis on the current situation of Arab and African countries. The main conceptual aspects of food security are briefly reviewed, pointing to the shift from a former focus on food energy availability to a more comprehensive appraisal of this phenomenon in recent times. The m...

The Heckscher–Ohlin–Vanek (HOV) model in its strict form has been strongly rejected by the data. Relaxing some assumptions of the standard HOV model is key to find improvements in its performance. We apply the Davis and Weinstein (2001) methodology to analyse the validity of the HOV model using regions rather than countries. Surprisingly, our resul...

This paper investigates the determinants of a firm’s export decision and focuses on the identification of spillovers from neighbouring firms. We use a panel of Spanish firms that started to export to at least one of 95 countries over the 2000-2006 period. Detailed data on the location of firms as well as on the destinations of their exports allows...

This paper analyses how the Heckscher-Ohlin-Vanek (HOV) model performs in a regional framework, applying the methodology of Leamer (1980). We conduct a complete test for the total, interregional and international trade flows of the Spanish regions in 1995. The empirical evidence shows that the methodology of Leamer works better than that of Bowen e...

This paper analyses how the Heckscher-Ohlin-Vanek (HOV) model performs in a regional framework, applying the methodology of Leamer (1980). We conduct a complete test for the total, interregional and international trade flows of the Spanish regions in 1995. The empirical evidence shows that the methodology of Leamer works better than that of Bowen e...

Este trabajo analiza el funcionamiento del modelo Heckscher-Ohlin- Vanek (HOV) aplicando la metodología de Leamer (1980) en un contexto regional. Para ello se desarrolla el contraste completo para el comercio total, interregional e internacional, de las regiones españolas en 1995. La evidencia empírica muestra que dicha propuesta metodológica funci...

The authors conduct an empirical study of the Heckscher—Ohlin—Vanek (HOV) model of trade using regional data rather than country data. Findings for Spanish regions suggest that relaxing the assumption of world factor price equalization alone is not enough to improve the performance of the HOV model. The supposition of world identical and homothetic...

We implement the ‘lens condition’ of Deardoff (1994) to investigate whether lumpiness, an excessively uneven geographic distribution of production factors, is large enough to allow for regional specialization of production at different factor prices. Using data from 50 Spanish provinces over the period 1964 to 2001, we show that Spain evolved from...

We implement the “lens condition” of Deardoff [J. Inter. Econ. (1994), 36, 167-175], to investigate whether lumpiness, an excessively uneven geographic distribution of production factors, is large enough to allow for regional specialization of production at different factor prices. Using regional data to the year 1998, we show that Spain is not in...

Does having more firms around exporting to a particular destination improve the chances of exporting to that destination (e.g. through information spillovers)? We answer this question implementing a multinomial logit model of whether a firm exports to a particular country. To identify the source of information spillovers, we construct indicators of...

We test the validity of the Heckscher-Ohlin-Vanek (HOV) model using Spanish interregional trade data. The results show that the strict HOV model predicts the direction of trade reasonably well, but fails to predict the volume of trade (the so-called missing trade problem). We find that relaxing the assumption of identical technology across regions...

Este trabajo analiza por primera vez el contenido factorial del comercio de las regiones españolas con la Unión Europea, usando las tablas Input-Output regionales disponibles. Los resultados indican que las regiones españolas presentan una ventaja comparativa revelada acorde con su abundancia factorial relativa. Con cifras en torno al año 1995, la...

Este trabajo presenta por primera vez un contraste empírico de la validez de la ecuación (Heckscher-Ohlin-Vanek) con datos de comercio interregional de España. Los resultados revelan que el modelo de proporciones factoriales en su versión estricta predice bastante bien la dirección de comercio, pero falla a la hora de explicar el volumen del conten...

This article examines whether having more firms around exporting to a particular destination improve the chances of exporting to that destination (e.g. through information spillovers). For that purpose the authors implement a multinomial (conditional) logit model of whether a small medium sized firm (SME) exports to a particular country. After cont...

We study the Heckscher-Ohlin-Vanek (HOV) model of trade empirically using regional data rather than country data. Unlike Davis et al. (1997) that find that the HOV model performs remarkably well using Japanese regional data, our findings for the Spanish regions suggest that the HOV model performs poorly after relaxing the "strict" assumptions of wo...

This paper analyses the relationship between internationalization and geographic and product diversification of the Spanish exporting manufacturing firms. Using semi-parametric estimation techniques to deal with nolinear dependence between the variables of interest, the results reveal that: a) there is greater "combined" diversification among those...

Este trabajo tiene el objetivo de estudiar los niveles relativos de precios y calidad de las importaciones españolas de productos textiles según su origen geográfico; para ello, se calculan índices translog de precios que permiten atribuir las diferencias en el valor unitario de los flujos de importación a los distintos niveles de calidad de los pr...

The contribution of trade strategies to the promotion of economic development, constitutes one of the focal points of modern economic literature, with the debate centering on the respective merits of import substitution and the promotion of exports.

We study the Heckscher-Ohlin-Vanek (HOV) model of trade empirically using regional data rather than country data. Our findings for the Spanish regions suggest that the HOV model performs remarkably well after relaxing the "strict" assumptions of world factor price equalisation and world identical and homothetic preferences. We also test whether Spa...

Resumen Este trabajo realiza una contrastación del teorema de Heckscher-Ohlin-Vanek por la vía del contenido factorial para las regiones españolas (NUTS 2) en el año 1995, utilizando para ello la información proporcionada por las tablas input-output regionales disponibles y analizando tanto el comercio interregional como internacional. Los resultad...