Research

Journal articles

1. Aparicio-Pérez, D., Balaguer-Coll, M.T., Peiró-Palomino, J., Tortosa-Ausina, E. (2025). On the relative contributions of national and regional institutions to economic development. Journal of Regional Science, 65:1118-1136.

2. Crespo, J. Peiró-Palomino, J. (2025). Long-run innovation in U.S. cities: Shifting landscapes and technological change. Economic Geography, 122-154

3. Peiró-Palomino, J., Gianmoena, L., Picazo-Tadeo, A.J., Rios, V. (2025). Is social capital a driver of the green transition in the European Union? Ecological Economics, 230, 108500.

4. Cruz-García, P., Peiró-Palomino, J. (2025). Bank restructuring and regional economic growth in Spain. Are branches still relevant? Journal of Regional Research, 62, 119-146.

5. Peiró-Palomino, J., Gianmoena, L., Picazo-Tadeo, A.J., Rios, V. (2024). Social trust and the advanced aspects of social progress. Evidence for the European regions. European Journal of Political Economy, 83, 102547.

6. Picazo-Tadeo, A.J., Gianmoena, L, Peiró-Palomino, J., Rios, V. (2024). Building a social progress-adjusted indicator of GDP per capita for the European Union's regions. Social Indicators Research, 175:317-345.

7. Rios, V., Gianmoena, L., Beltrán-Esteve, M., Peiró-Palomino, J., Picazo-Tadeo, A.J. (2023). Quality of government and women's political empowerment: evidence from the European regions. Papers in Regional Science, 102(6), 1067-1096.

8. Cruz-García, P., Peiró-Palomino, J. (2023). Does bank branch density reduce income inequality in the Spanish provinces? Finance Research Letters, 58, 104625.

9. Beltrán-Esteve, M., Peiró-Palomino, J., Picazo-Tadeo, A.J., Rios, V. (2023). Is the Social Progress Index robust? Implications for the design of European Union regional Cohesion Policy. Regional Studies, 57(11), 2285-2306.

10. Peiró-Palomino, J., Prieto-Bustos, W.O., Tortosa-Ausina, E. (2023). Regional income convergence in Colombia: population, space and long-run dynamics, The Annals of Regional Science, 70(2), 559-601.

11. Peiró-Palomino, J., Picazo-Tadeo, A.J., Rios, V. (2023). Social progress around the world. Trends and convergence, Oxford Economic Papers 75(2), 281-306. 

12. Martínez-Cháfer, L., Molina-Morales, X., Peiró-Palomino, J. (2023). On the drivers of successful crowdfunding. The case of the platform Verkami. Business Research Quarterly,  26(3), 182-195

13. Peiró-Palomino, J., Rodríguez-Crespo, E., Suárez-Varela, M. (2022). Do countries with higher institutional quality transition to cleaner trade? Ecological Economics, 201, 107554.

14. Peiró-Palomino, J., Perugini, F. (2022). Regional innovation disparities in Italy. The role of governance. Economic Systems, 46(4), 101009.

15. Crespo, J., Peiró-Palomino, J., Tortosa-Ausina. E. (2022). Does university performance have an economic payoff for their home regions? Evidence for the Spanish provinces. Industry and Innovation, 29:4, 564-596.

16. Paniagua, J., Peiró-Palomino, J., Santana-Gallego, M. (2022). Does happiness drive tourism decisions? Economic Modelling, 111, 105824.

17. Balaguer-Coll, M.T., Narbón-Perpiñá, I., Peiró-Palomino, J., Tortosa-Ausina, E. (2022). Quality of government and growth at the municipal level: Evidence for Spain.  Journal of Regional Science, 62(1), 96-124.

18. Peiró-Palomino J., Picazo-Tadeo, A.J., Tortosa-Ausina, E. (2021). Measuring well-being in Colombian departments. The role of geography and demography. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 78, 101072.

19. Boix, R., Peiró-Palomino, J., Rausell, P. (2021). Creative industries and productivity in the European regions. Is there a Mediterranean effect? Regional Science Policy and Practice, 13(5), 1546-1564. 

20. Paniagua, J., Peiró-Palomino, J., Picazo-Tadeo, A.J. (2021). Asylum migration in OECD countries. In search of lost well-being. Social Indicators Research, 153: 1109–1137.

21. Cruz-García, P., Forte, A., Peiró-Palomino, J. (2020). On the drivers of profitability in the banking industry in restructuring times: A Bayesian perspective. Applied Economic Analysis, 83(28), 111-131.

22. Peiró-Palomino, J., Picazo-Tadeo, A.J., Rios, V. (2020). Well-being in European regions. Does government quality matter? Papers in Regional Science,  99 (3), 555–582.

23. Arribas, I., Peiró-Palomino, J., Tortosa-Ausina, E. (2020). Is full banking integration desirable? Journal of Banking and Finance, 112, 105185.

24. Peiró-Palomino, J. (2019). Government quality and regional growth in the enlarged European Union: components, evolution and spatial spillovers, Journal of Regional Research,  2019/3 (45), 17-37.

25. Cruz-García, P., Peiró-Palomino, J. (2019). Informal, formal institutions and credit. Complements or substitutes? Journal of Institutional Economics, 15, 649-671.

26. Peiró-Palomino, J. (2019). Regional well-being in the OECD. Disparities and convergence profiles, The Journal of Economic Inequality,  17(2), 195-218.

27. Peiró-Palomino, J., Perugini, F., Picazo-Tadeo, A.J. (2019). Well-being and the Great Recession in Spain, Applied Economics Letters, 26:15, 1279-1284.

28. Camarero, M., Peiró-Palomino, J., Tamarit, C. (2019). Growth in a time of external imbalances. Economic Modelling, 72, 262-275.

29. Peiró-Palomino, J., Picazo-Tadeo, A.J. (2019). Is social capital green? Cultural features and environmental performance in the European Union. Environmental and Resource Economics,  72: 795-822.

30. Peiró-Palomino, J. (2019). The geography of social capital and innovation in the European Union. Papers in Regional Science, 98 (1), 53-73.  

31. Martínez-Cháfer, L., Molina-Morales, X., Peiró-Palomino, J. (2018). The cluster is not flat. Uneven impacts of brokerage roles on the innovative performance of firms. Business Research Quarterly,  21(1), 12-25.

32. Peiró-Palomino, J., Picazo-Tadeo, A.J. (2018). OECD: one or many? Ranking countries with a composite well-being indicator, Social Indicators Research, 139(3), 847-869. 

33. Peiró-Palomino, J. (2016). European regional convergence revisited: the role of intangible assets. The Annals of Regional Science, 57 (1), 165-194. 

34. Peiró-Palomino, J. (2016). Social capital and economic growth in Europe: nonlinear trends and heterogeneous regional effects, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 78 (5), 717-751. 

35. Forte, A., Peiró-Palomino, J., Tortosa-Ausina, E. (2015). Does social capital matter for European regional growth? European Economic Review, 77, 47-64.

36. Peiró-Palomino, J., Tortosa-Ausina, E. (2015). Social capital, investment and economic growth: some evidence for Spanish provinces, Spatial Economic Analysis, 10:1, 102-126. 

37. Peiró-Palomino, J., Tortosa-Ausina, E. (2013). Can trust effects on development be generalized? A response by quantile. European Journal of Political Economy, 32, 377-390.

Books

1. Akçomak, I.S., Peiró-Palomino, J. (2025). Research Agenda for Social Capital in Economic Development, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenman, UK.

Book chapters

1. Peiró-Palomino, J., Picazo-Tadeo, A.J. (2025). Calidad Institucional y capital social. Lecciones de Economía Española (18ª ed), 165-175, García Delgado, J.L, Myro, R. (dirs.). Civitas Aranzadi Lei, Madrid.

2. Akçomak, I.S, Aydinoglu, A., Peiró-Palomino, J. (2025). Social capital and economic development: A bibliometric approach, in Research Agenda for Social Capital in Economic Development, 2-23, Akçomak, S.I., Peiró-Palomino, J. (eds.), Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenman, UK.

2. Martínez-Cháfer, L., Molina-Morales, F. X., Peiró-Palomino, J. (2024). Social capital and corporate growth strategies in the Spanish ceramic cluster, in Cases on Entrepreneurship and Innovation: Unexplored Topics and Contexts, 117-134, Schmutzler,J., Palacios-Chacón, L., Burvill, S. , Andonova, V.(eds.), Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenman, UK.

3. Peiró-Palomino, J., Picazo-Tadeo, A.J. (2023). Calidad Institucional y capital social. Lecciones de Economía Española (17ª ed), 159-169, García Delgado, J.L, Myro, R. (dirs.). Civitas Thomson Reuters, Navarra.

4. Peiró-Palomino, J., Tortosa-Ausina, E. (2021). Formal and informal institutions as drivers of life satisfaction in European regions. Social Capital and Subjective Well-being. Insights from Cross-Cultural Studies, 159-173, Amalkaeva, A., Moreno, A. Rima, W. (eds.). Springer, Switzerland.

5. Peiró-Palomino, J., Picazo-Tadeo, A.J. (2021). Apéndice: Calidad Institucional. Lecciones de Economía Española (16ª ed), 171-178, García Delgado, J.L, Myro, R. (dirs.). Civitas Thomson Reuters, Navarra.

6. Peiró-Palomino, J. (2021). Social trust and social progress. A European regional perspective. Social Capital: Issues, Challenges and Perspectives, 111-138, Jackson, R. (ed.), Nova Publishers, New York.

7. Boix, R., Peiró-Palomino, J. (2017). Industrias de servicios creativos y productividad del trabajo en las regiones de la Unión Europea. La Economía de las Actividades Creativas: Una Perspectiva desde España y México, 357-380, Cuadrado, J.R., Valdivia, M. (eds.), UNAM and UAH. 

8. Peiró-Palomino, J., Tortosa-Ausina, E. (2016). Social capital and income convergence in the European regions. Handbook of Social Capital and Regional Development, 321-358, Westlund. H., Larsson, J. (eds.), Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK.