Refereed Journals (JCR)
 | Barbero, Javier; Rodríguez-Crespo, Ernesto; Suárez-Varela, Marta; Velasco, Pilar (2024). Climate clubs and firm environmental performance: A regional institutional perspective. Economic Analysis and Policy. 84: 663-678. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eap.2024.09.020 |
 | Gianelle, Carlo; Guzzo, Fabrizio; Barbero, Javier; Salotti, Simone (2024). The governance of regional innovation policy and its economic implications The Annals of Regional Science. 72: 1231–1254. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00168-023-01241-2 |
 | Zofío, José L.; Aparicio, Juan; Barbero, Javier; Zabala-Iturriagagoitia, Jon Mikel. (2024). Benchmarking performance through efficiency analysis trees: Improvement strategies for colombian higher education institutions. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences. 92(101845): 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seps.2024.101845 |
 | Barbero, Javier; Diukanova, Olga; Gianelle, Carlo; Salotti, Simone; Santoalha, Artur (2024). Technologically related diversification: One size does not fit all European regions Research Policy, 53(3) (104973): 1-13 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2024.104973 |
 | Barbero, Javier; Christou, Tryfonas; Crucitti, Francesca; García Rodríguez, Abián; Lazarou Nicholas-Joseph, Monfort, Philippe; Salotti, Simone (2024). A spatial macroeconomic analysis of the equity-efficiency trade-off of the European cohesion policy Spatial Economic Analysis, 19(3): 394-410. https://doi.org/10.1080/17421772.2024.2306948 |
 | Barbero, Javier; Conte, Andrea; Crucitti, Francesca; Lazarou, Nicholas-Joseph; Sakkas, Stylianos; and Salotti, Simone (2024) The impact of the recovery fund on EU regions: a spatial general equilibrium analysis Regional Studies, 58(2): 336-349 https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2022.2123467 |
 | Santos, Anabela; Barbero, Javier; Salotti, Simone; Diukanova, Olga; Pontikakis, Dimitrios (2023). On the road to regional ‘Competitive Environmental Sustainability’: the role of the European structural funds. Industry and Innovation. 30(7): 801-823. https://doi.org/10.1080/13662716.2023.2236048 |
| Barbero, Javier, & Zofío, José L. (2023). The measurement of profit, profitability, cost and revenue efficiency through data envelopment analysis: A comparison of models using BenchmarkingEconomicEfficiency.jl. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 89(101656): 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seps.2023.101656 |
 | Marques Santos, Anabela; Barbero, Javier; Salotti, Simone; Conte, Andrea (2023). Job creation and destruction in the digital age: Assessing heterogeneous effects across European Union countries. Economic Modelling. 126(106405): 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2023.106405 |
 | Persyn, Damiaan; Barbero, Javier; Díaz-Lanchas, Jorge; Lecca, Patrizio; Mandras, Giovanni; Salotti, Simone (2023). The ripple effects of large-scale transport infrastructure investment Journal of Regional Science. 63(4): 755-792. https://doi.org/10.1111/jors.12639 |
 | Zofio, José Luis; Aparicio, Juan; Barbero, Javier; Zabala-Iturriagagoitia, Jon Mikel (2023). The influence of bottlenecks on innovation systems performance: Put the slowest climber first. Technological Forecasting and Social Change. 193(122607): 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2023.122607 |
 | Barbero, Javier; Christensen, Martin; Conte, Andrea; Lecca, Patrizio; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés; and Salotti Simone (2023) Improving Government Quality in the Regions of the EU and its System-Wide Benefits for Cohesion Policy Journal of Common Market Studies, 61(1): 38-57. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.13337 |
| Barbero, Javier; and Rodríguez-Crespo, Ernesto (2022) Technological, institutional, and geographical peripheries: regional development and risk of poverty in the European regions The Annals of Regional Science, 69, 311-332. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00168-022-01127-9 |
| Barbero, Javier; Diukanova, Olga; Gianelle, Carlo; Salotti, Simone; Santoalha, Artur (2022). Economic modelling to evaluate Smart Specialisation: an analysis of research and innovation targets in Southern Europe Regional Studies, 56(9), 1496-1509. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2021.1926959 |
 | Persyn, Damiaan; Díaz-Lanchas, Jorge and Barbero, Javier (2022) Estimating road transport costs between and within European Union regions Transport Policy, Volume 124, 33-42. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2020.04.006 |
 | Barbero, Javier; Zabala-Iturriagagoitia, Jon Mikel; Zofío, José L. (2021). Is more always better? On the relevance of decreasing returns to scale on innovation Technovation, Volume 107 (102314), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.technovation.2021.102314 |
| Barbero, Javier; Mandras, Giovanni; Rodríguez-Crespo, Ernesto; and Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés (2021). Quality of government and regional trade: evidence from European Union regions Regional Studies, 55(7), 1240-1251. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2021.1873934 |
| Mieszkowski, Krzysztof and Barbero, Javier (2021) Territorial patterns of R&D+I grants supporting Smart Specialisation projects funded from the ESIF in Poland Regional Studies, Volume 55(3), 390-401. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2020.1782877 |
 | Abeliansky, Ana Lucia; Barbero, Javier and Rodriguez-Crespo, Ernesto (2021) ICTs quality and quantity and the margins of trade Telecommunications Policy, Volume 45 (1), 102056. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.telpol.2020.102056 |
 | Balk, Bert M.; Barbero, Javier and Zofío, José L. (2020) A toolbox for calculating and decomposing Total Factor Productivity indices Computers & Operations Research, Volume 115 (104853), 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cor.2019.104853 |
 | Álvarez, Inmaculada C.; Barbero, Javier and Zofío, José L. (2020) A Data Envelopment Analysis Toolbox for MATLAB Journal of Statistical Software, Volume 91 (3), 1-49. http://dx.doi.org/10.18637/jss.v095.i03 |
 | Barbero, Javier and Rodriguez-Crespo, Ernesto. (2018) The effect of broadband on European Union trade: A regional spatial approach The World Economy, Volume 41 (11), 2895-2913. https://doi.org/10.1111/twec.12723 |
 | Edquist, Charles; Zabala-Iturriagagoitia, Jon Mikel; Barbero, Javier and Zofío, José L., (2018) On the meaning of innovation performance: Is the synthetic indicator of the Innovation Union Scoreboard flawed? Research Evaluation, Volume 27(3), 196–211. https://doi.org/10.1093/reseval/rvy011 |
 | Barbero, Javier.; Behrens, Kristian and Zofío, José L., (2018) Industry location and wages: The role of market size and accessibility in trading networks Regional Science and Urban Economics, Volume 71, pp. 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2018.04.005 |
 | Álvarez, Inmaculada C.; Barbero, Javier; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés and Zofío, José L., (2018) Does Institutional Quality Matter for Trade? Institutional Conditions in a Sectoral Trade Framework World Development, Volume 103, pp. 72-87. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2017.10.010 |
 | Aparicio, Juan; Barbero, Javier; Kapelko, Magdalena; Pastor, Jesús T. and Zofío, José L., (2017) Testing the consistency and feasibility of the standard Malmquist-Luenberger index: Environmental productivity in world air emissions Journal of Environmental Management, Volume 196, pp 148-160. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2017.03.007 |
| Álvarez, Inmaculada C.; Barbero, Javier and Zofío, José L, (2017) A Panel Data Toolbox for MATLAB. Journal of Statistical Software. Volume 76, Issue 6, pp 1-27. http://dx.doi.org/10.18637/jss.v076.i06 |
 | Álvarez, Inmaculada C., Barbero, Javier, and Zofío, José L. (2016). A spatial autoregressive panel model to analyze road network spillovers on production. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Elsevier, vol. 93(C), pages 83-92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2016.08.018 |
 | Barbero, Javier and Zofío, José L (2016) The Multiregional Core-periphery Model: The Role of the Spatial Topology. Networks and Spatial Economics, Springer US, Volume 16, Issue 2, pp 469–496. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11067-015-9285-7 |
 | Álvarez, Inmaculada C. and Barbero, Javier, (2016) The Public Sector and Convergence with Spatial Interdependence: Empirical Evidence from Spain. Applied Economics. Volume 48, Issue 24, Pages 2238-2252. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2015.1117048 |
Working Papers and Technical Reports:
Not published in academic journals:
Lecca, P., Barbero, J., Christensen, M., Conte, A., Di Comite, F., Diaz-Lanchas, J., Diukanova, O., Mandras, G., Persyn, D. and Sakkas, S. (2018), RHOMOLO V3: A Spatial Modelling Framework, EUR 29229 EN, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, 2018, ISBN 978-92-79-85886-4, doi:10.2760/671622, JRC111861.