Journal publications (selected)

• "Social Transfer Policies and Child Poverty in European Countries: Evaluating Policy Alternatives through a Multiobjective Programming Model”  (joint with Sandra González-Gallardo, Elena Bárcena-Martín and Mariano Luque), Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, forthcoming 2024. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seps.2024.101892

• "Evaluating the Effectiveness of Social Transfer Policies on Poverty for Children with Previous Experience in Poverty”  (joint with Elena Bárcena-Martín and Carmen Blanco-Arana), Journal of Family and Economic Issues, forthcoming 2024. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10834-023-09939-3

•  “Labor Market Regulation and Gendered Entrepreneurship: A Cross-national Perspective” (joint with María J. Angulo-Guerrero, Elena Bárcena-Martín, Samuel Medina-Claros), Small Business Economics, forthcoming 2024. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-023-00776-0

• “Foreign Direct Investment Openness and Income Classes in Europe around the Great Recession” (joint with Philip Arestis, Elena Bárcena-Martín, Natalia Martín-Fuentes) Economic Research-Ekonomska Istraživanja, 36(3), 2163270, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1080/1331677X.2022.2163270

• “Assessing Regional Convergence of the Size of Middle Classes in Euro-Mediterranean Countries” (joint with Elena Bárcena-Martín and Elías Melchor-Ferrer), Regional Studies, Regional Science, 10(1), 659-675, 2024.  https://doi.org/10.1080/21681376.2023.2229421

• "Leaving No Country Behind: A Fuzzy Approach for Human Development”  (joint with Francisca García-Pardo and Elena Bárcena-Martín), Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 24(1), 1-23, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1080/19452829.2022.2104824

• "Institutional Convergence and a Lingering Two-Speed Euro Area: A Response” (joint with Elena Bárcena-Martín and Jo Ritzen), Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 31(1), 106-110, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1080/14782804.2021.1934657

• "Peer-To-Peer Accommodation Prices: City Listing Concentration and Host Listing Share” (joint with Elena Bárcena-Martín and Beatriz Benítez-Aurioles), Tourism Economics, 29(6), 1499–1517, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1177/13548166221110526 

• "Editorial: Distributional Effects of Monetary Policy" (joint with Philip Arestis), Journal of Economic Policy Reform, 25(4), 415-419, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1080/17487870.2021.1997748

• "Vulnerability and COVID-19 Infection Rates: A Changing Relationship during the First Year of the Pandemic”  (joint with Elena Bárcena-Martín, Julián Molina and Ana Muñoz-Fernández), Economics and Human Biology, 47, 101177, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2022.101177 

• "Economic regulation, opportunity-driven entrepreneurship and gender gap: emerging versus high-income economies" (joint with Elena Bárcena-Martín and Samuel Medina-Claros), International Journal of Entepreneurial Behavior & Research, 27(5), 1311-1328, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJEBR-05-2020-0321

• "Economic Gender gap in the Global South: How Public Institutions Matter", (joint with Elena Bárcena-Martín and Samuel Medina-Claros), Social Indicators Research, 158(2), 459-483, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-021-02715-6

• “Economic Gender Gap: Which Countries Are Falling Behind?" (joint with Samuel Medina-Claros, Francisca García-Pardo and Elena Bárcena-Martín), Panoeconomicus, 68(2), 213-230, 2021. https://doi.org/10.2298/PAN2102213M

• "Measuring the `Leaving No One Behind' Principle in the European Countries: an AROPE-Based Fuzzy Logic Approach" (joint with Francisca García-Pardo and Elena Bárcena-Martín), Fuzzy Sets and Systems, 409, 170-18, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fss.2020.07.017 

• "Institutional Quality in the Euro Area Countries: Any Evidence of Convergence?" (joint with Elena Bárcena-Martín and Jo Ritzen), Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 28(3), 387-402, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1080/14782804.2020.1779044

• "Rethinking Multidimensional Poverty through a Multi-Criteria Analysis” (joint with Elena Bárcena-Martín and Beatriz Rodríguez), Economic Modelling, 91, 313-325, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2020.06.007 

• "Effects of Monetary Policy Shocks on Income Mobility in the Euro Area Countries" (joint with Elena Bárcena-Martín and Natalia Martín-Fuentes), Panoeconomicus, 66(3), 307-324, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/PAN1903307B 

• "Social Transfers and Child Poverty in European Countries: Pro-poor Targeting or Pro-child Targeting?" (joint with Elena Bárcena-Martín and María C. Blanco-Arana), Journal of Social Policy, 47(4), 739-758, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047279418000090 

• "Differences in Institutional Quality across Euro Area Countries: Which Factors Contribute Most to Inequality?" (joint with Philip Arestis and Elena Bárcena-Martín), Panoeconomicus, 65(3): 363-379, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/PAN1803363A 

• "How economic freedom affects opportunity and necessity entrepreneurship in the OECD countries (joint with María J. Angulo-Guerrero and Isabel M. Abad-Guerrero), Journal of Business Research, 17: 30-37, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2016.11.017

• "Measuring Child and Maternal Health in Developing Countries: A Proposal of New Hybrid MDG Composite Indices" (joint with Mariano Luque, José A. Robles and Beatriz Rodríguez), Applied Research in Quality of Life, 12(3): 737-758, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11482-016-9487-2

• "Disparities in entrepreneurial activity and attitude across EU countries" (joint with María J. Angulo-Guerrero and Isabel M. Abad-Guerrero), European Planning Studies, 25(4): 680-702, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1080/09654313.2017.1287163

• "Immigrant-native Gap in Poverty: a Cross-national European Perspective" (joint with Elena Bárcena-Martín), Review of Economics of the Household, 15(4): 1105-1136, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11150-015-9321-x

• "Measuring Human Development: a Multi-criteria Approach" (joint with Mariano Luque and Beatriz Rodríguez), Social Indicators Research, 125(3): 713-733, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-015-0874-0

• "How Income Growth Differs with Children in Spain: a Comparative European Perspective" (joint with Elena Bárcena-Martín and Ana I. Moro-Egido), Child Indicators Research, 9(2): 357-370, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12187-015-9329-z

• "Assessing Global Competitiveness under Multi-criteria Approach" (joint with Beatriz Rodríguez and Mariano Luque), Economic Modelling, 53: 398-408, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2015.10.030 

• "Rural indigenous women in Bolivia: A development proposal based on cooperativism" (joint with Fuensanta Galindo-Reyes, Antonio Ciruela-Lorenzo and Salvador Pérez-Canto), Women's Studies International Forum, 59: 58-66, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2016.10.003 

• "Economic Cycles and Child Mortality: a Cross-national Study of the Least Developed Countries" (joint with María C. Blanco-Arana and Elena Bárcena-Martín), Economics and Human Biology, 22: 14-23, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2016.02.005 

• "Revisiting Growth-Poverty Relationship: A Medium-Term Causality Approach", South African Journal of Economics, 84(4): 624-635, 2016.  https://doi.org/10.1111/saje.12120 

• "Does Economic Freedom Increase Income Inequality? Evidence from the EU Countries" (joint with María J. Angulo-Guerrero), Journal of Economic Policy Reform, 19(4): 327-347, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1080/17487870.2015.1128832

• "Country Differences in Material Deprivation in Europe" (joint with Elena Bárcena-Martín, Beatriz Lacomba and Ana I. Moro-Egido), Review of Income and Wealth, 60(4): 802–820, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1111/roiw.12030

• "Consumption and Income Distribution: a Proposal for a New Reading of Keynes' Thinking" (joint with Antonio García-Lizana), The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 19(1): 45-66, 2012. https://doi.org/10.1080/09672560903552603

• "Financial development and poverty in developing countries: a causal analysis", Empirical Economics, 41: 57-80, 2011. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00181-010-0392-5

• "An Assessment of the Quality of a Tourist Destination: the Case of Nerja, Spain" (joint with Alberto López Toro and Rocío Díaz-Muñoz), Total Quality Management & Business Excellence, 21(3): 269-289, 2010. https://doi.org/10.1080/14783360903553164

• "An Assessment of the Causal Relationship between Growth and Inequality in Spanish Regions", European Planning Studies, 17(3): 389-400, 2009. https://doi.org/10.1080/09654310802625296