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Research

Peer-reviewed publications

Dukku, H. B., Arnaut, J., Johnstone, C., Riccardi, A. and Ordonez-Sanchez, S. (2024), Techno-economic Feasibility Study of Hydrogen Transportation in Greenland using Pipeline and Maritime Routes. Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology. December, 2100 https://doi.org/10.26748/KSOE.2024.088
Østergaard, R., and Arnaut, J.L. (2023). “Inuit myth and the remaking of Greenland's postcolonial governance”, Arctic Yearbook. Edition on Arctic Indigenous Peoples: Climate, Science, Knowledge, and Governance (December 2023). https://arcticyearbook.com/images/yearbook/2023/Scholarly_Papers/9_Ostergaard_Arnaut_AY2023.pdf
Arnaut, J.L. and Østergaard, R. (2023), “Navigating towards a sustainable Arctic: trade-offs and adaptation in Greenland’s fishing industry”. In: Tsvetkova, A., & Timoshenko, K. (Eds.). Supply Chain Operations in the Arctic: Implications for Social Sustainability (1st ed.). Routledge. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781003218043/supply-chain-operations-arctic-antonina-tsvetkova-konstantin-timoshenko
Arnaut, J.L. (2022). The Importance of Uranium Prices and Structural Shocks: Some Implications for Greenland. Energy Policy. Vol. 161, February 2022, 112757. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2021.112757
Arnaut, J.L. (2022). Kan vi forudsige fremtiden for arktisk mineral minedrift? Elementær statistisk prognose. In Arnfjord S. & Hovgaard, G. (eds.) Samfundsvidenskabelig praksis – Arktiske perspektiver. Online version.
Arnaut, J.L., and Lidman, J. (2021). Environmental Sustainability and Economic Growth in Greenland: Testing the Environmental Kuznets Curve. Sustainability 13, no. 3: 1228. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13031228
Arnaut, J.L (2021). The Political Economy of Greenland: From Colonialism to a Mixed Economy. In: L. Høgedal (Ed.), Greenland’s Economy and Labour Markets. Routledge: London, U.K. https://www.routledge.com/Greenlands-Economy-and-Labour-Markets/Hogedahl/p/book/9780367516192 Download a personal copy version here
Arnaut, J.L. (2017). Did Structural Change Account for Productivity Growth within Manufacturing during the Import Substitution Era? A Historical Appraisal of Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil, The Journal of International Trade & Economic Development http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09638199.2017.1389975 Download ungated version (accepted manuscript)
Arnaut, J.L. (2018). Mexican Real Wages Before the Revolution: A Reappraisal. Iberoamericana – Nordic Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies. 47(1), pp.45–62. http://doi.org/10.16993/iberoamericana.421
Arnaut, J.L. (2017). Was Colonialism Fiscally Sustainable? An Empirical Examination of the Colonial Finances of Spanish America." Series of Documentos de Trabajo. Spanish Association of Economic History (AEHE) - 2017 Num. 1703 (Download full text)
Arnaut, J.L. (2015). "The Redemption of the Washington Consensus in Latin America". Historisch Tijdschrift, 46 (199). (Download full text)

Other research:

Arnaut, J.L. (2024). “Hvad gør naturen for os? Et Erasmus+-projekt lærer den unge generation om økosystemtjenester”. Geografisk Orientering (GO). https://da.uni.gl/media/pxwngvus/javier-arnaut_pages-from-go1_2024-02-6-1.pdf

Working Papers

Arnaut, J.L. (2018). "The Youth Labor Market in Greenland: Progress and Bottlenecks". See: Presentation at Arctic Circle Assembly 2018, Reykjavik, Iceland.
Arnaut, J.L. (2018). "The politics of inequality and redistribution under autocracy: The case of Eurasia."

Despite a marked rise of income inequality over the last two decades the ruling political parties in post-soviet countries of the Eurasian region continue to enjoy significant popular support in spite of the restriction of civil liberties. Explanations on the political persistence in natural resource-rich economies have focused on the links between rising commodity prices and government spending. This paper proposes to add breadth to the literature of political persistence looking at the structure of wage inequality as an additional key factor for persistence. The analysis builds on recent studies of re-distributive politics and preferences for redistribution (e.g., Lupu and Pontusson, American Political Science Review: 115: 316-336). Using micro-data of gross earnings from Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine since 2000, this paper presents evidence on the dispersion of wages at different levels of the earnings distribution. It analyzes how policy preferences for redistribution in Eurasian countries are related to the position in the earnings distribution and whether this new evidence is consistent (or not) with the median voter theory.

Arnaut, J.L. "Catching Up, Falling Behind, and the Role of Institutions: Explaining Productivity Growth in Latin America and Asia from a Sectoral Perspective." [under journal review] See a previous chapter version here.

Abstract. This paper provides evidence on the role of a set of different institutions in the process of catching up at the sectoral level. Drawing on the range of sectoral data, the analysis focuses on a panel dataset based on nineteen countries of Latin America and Asia, and takes the United States as the technology leader. It points out different channels in which institutional quality impacts sectoral productivity growth, indicating that backward sectors in countries endowed with higher institutional quality grow faster than in sectors of countries with lower institutional quality. The results show that: greater freedom in the legal structure and property rights, freedom from tight market regulations, greater access to sound money, and a small and more efficient government, all in a different magnitude affected positively the growth of sectoral productivity. In hindsight the results are broadly in line with the body of literature of the so-called ‘New Institutional Economics’ regarding the prominence of ‘market-friendly’ institutions in enhancing productivity growth in the long-run. However, in spite of controlling for country and time invariant factors, estimates are sensitive to the sample selection. The model predictions apply to the majority of the sectors in the Asian sample. On the other hand, sectoral productivity growth in Latin America is not statistically associated with the quality of property rights and market regulations; only in the mining and construction sectors, productivity is statistically associated with the reduction in the size of government and with a better access to sound money.

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