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María Engracia Rochina Barrachina
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The effects of export and R&D strategies on firms’ markups in downturns: The Spanish case
2020
The Spanish economy was one of those most hit by the Great Recession in the euro area. It suffered a huge decrease in gross domestic product (GDP), affecting especially internal demand, and in busi...
Trading activities, productivity and markups: Evidence for Spanish manufacturing
2019
This work analyses the firms’ internationalization strategies of importing intermediates and exporting output, and the potential rewards of these activities in terms of total factor productivity (TFP), as a proxy for marginal costs, and markups. It further deepens into the study of the relationship between internationalization strategies and markups by disentangling whether it operates through affecting firms’ marginal costs and/or firms’ prices. The panel database employed in this paper is the Spanish Survey on Business Strategies (ESEE) for the period 2006- 2014. Results in the paper distinguish between SMEs and large firms and indicate that there is high persistence in the performance of…
Export intensity and the productivity gains of exporting
2013
This article analyses whether the productivity gains associated with Learning-by-Exporting (LBE) (controlling for self-selection) depend on the intensity of the firm's exporting activity. The results from a representative sample of Spanish manufacturing firms indicate that the yearly average gains in productivity are larger for those firms that increase their export-to-sales ratio.
La duración de las huelgas: evidencia empírica para España
2007
El objetivo de este artículo es analizar empíricamente los determinantes de la duración de las huelgas en España utilizando datos de registro de la Estadística de Huelgas y Cierres Patronales (Ministerio de Trabajo y Asuntos Sociales). Para ello, se estiman modelos de duración. Los resultados muestran que las huelgas duran menos cuanto mayor es el número de trabajadores participantes, si hay varios convenios aplicables a las unidades en huelga, si son huelgas de Comunidad Autónoma, si se trata de huelgas cuyo motivo es la solidaridad, en actividades financieras e inmobiliarias, electricidad, agua y gas, vehículos y material de transporte, industria química y refinerías, hostelería, industri…