Paloma Lopez-Garcia

European Central Bank

Principal economist

Sonnemannstraße 20

Frankfurt am Main, 60314

Germany

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

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Scholarly Papers (29)

1.

Climate Change and Monetary Policy in the Euro Area

ECB Occasional Paper No. 2021/271
Number of pages: 193 Posted: 23 Sep 2021 Last Revised: 12 Jan 2022
European Central Bank (ECB), Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, European Central Bank (ECB), Bank of France, European Central Bank (ECB), European Central Bank (ECB), European Central Bank (ECB), European Central Bank (ECB), European Central Bank (ECB), Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB), Bank of Italy, European Central Bank (ECB), De Nederlandsche Bank, European Central Bank (ECB), European Central Bank (ECB), European Central Bank (ECB), European Central Bank (ECB) - Directorate General International and European Relations, Central Bank of Cyprus, European Central Bank (ECB), Bank of Greece, De Nederlandsche Bank, Goethe University Frankfurt, European Central Bank (ECB), University of Bonn, European Central Bank (ECB), European Central Bank (ECB), European Central Bank, Central Bank of Ireland, Central Bank of Ireland, Suomen Panki, European Central Bank (ECB), European Central Bank (ECB), Banco de España, De Nederlandsche Bank, European Central Bank (ECB), European Central Bank (ECB), European Central Bank (ECB), European Central Bank (ECB), European Central Bank, European Central Bank (ECB), European Central Bank (ECB) - Directorate General Economics, European Central Bank (ECB), European Central Bank (ECB), European Central Bank (ECB), Central Bank of Cyprus, European Central Bank (ECB), European Central Bank (ECB), Banco de España, Banco de España, Latvijas Banka, Banque Centrale du Luxembourg, European Central Bank (ECB), European Central Bank (ECB), National Bank of Belgium, European Central Bank (ECB), University of Edinburgh Business School, Deutsche Bundesbank, Central Bank of Ireland, Deutsche Bundesbank, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, De Nederlandsche Bank, Bank of Greece, Deutsche Bundesbank, European Central Bank (ECB) and Banque de France
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climate change, environmental economics, green finance, monetary policy, sustainable growth economics

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Business Demography in Spain: Determinants of Firm Survival

Banco de Espana Research Paper No. WP-0608
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 08 May 2006
Paloma Lopez-Garcia and Sergio Puente
European Central Bank and Banco de España
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Firm survival, entry and exit, micro-data

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The Impact of the Euro on Trade: Two Decades into Monetary Union

ECB Occasional Paper No. 2021/283
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 13 Oct 2021
European Central Bank (ECB), European Central Bank (ECB), European Central Bank, European Central Bank (ECB) and Tinbergen Institute
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euro, global value chains, gravity equation, synthetic control approach, trade flows

Capital and Labour (Mis)Allocation in the Euro Area: Some Stylized Facts and Determinants

ECB Working Paper No. 1981
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 03 Feb 2017
Elisa Gamberoni, Claire Giordano and Paloma Lopez-Garcia
European Central Bank (ECB), Bank of Italy and European Central Bank
Downloads 208 (309,378)
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total factor productivity, allocative efficiency, capital, labour, Great Recession

Capital and Labour (Mis)Allocation in the Euro Area: Some Stylized Facts and Determinants

Bank of Italy Occasional Paper No. 349
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 02 Feb 2017
Elisa Gamberoni, Claire Giordano and Paloma Lopez-Garcia
European Central Bank (ECB), Bank of Italy and European Central Bank
Downloads 135 (452,878)
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total factor productivity, allocative efficiency, capital, labour, Great Recession

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The Impact of Climate Change and Policies on Productivity

ECB Occasional Paper No. 2024/340
Number of pages: 73 Posted: 28 Feb 2024
National Bank of Belgium, Bank of Greece, De Nederlandsche Bank - Research Department, National Bank of Belgium, Deutsche Bundesbank, European Central Bank (ECB) - Directorate General Economics, European Central Bank, Bank of Portugal, Bank of Estonia, European Central Bank (ECB), Deutsche Bundesbank, European Central Bank (ECB), Deutsche Bundesbank and Deutsche Bundesbank
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climate change impact, climate transition policies, economic reallocation, green innovation, physical risk, productivity, transition risk

Is Corruption Efficiency-Enhancing? A Case Study of Nine Central and Eastern European Countries

ECB Working Paper No. 1950
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 30 Aug 2016
European Central Bank (ECB), European Central Bank (ECB), Bank of Italy and European Central Bank
Downloads 170 (372,717)
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bribes, capital misallocation, labour misallocation, total factor productivity

Is Corruption Efficiency-Enhancing? A Case Study of Nine Central and Eastern European Countries

Bank of Italy Occasional Paper No. 331
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 29 Sep 2016
European Central Bank (ECB), European Central Bank (ECB), Bank of Italy and European Central Bank
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bribes, capital misallocation, labour misallocation, total factor productivity

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Key Factors Behind Productivity Trends in EU Countries

ECB Occasional Paper No. 2021/268
Number of pages: 196 Posted: 23 Sep 2021 Last Revised: 12 May 2022
European Central Bank (ECB), European Central Bank, Bank of Greece, Tilburg University - Tilburg University School of Economics and Management, European Central Bank (ECB), European Central Bank (ECB), De Nederlandsche Bank, National Bank of Belgium, Banco de España, European Central Bank (ECB) - Directorate General Economics, European Central Bank (ECB), Bank of Italy, European Central Bank (ECB), Bank of Estonia, Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB), Deutsche Bundesbank, European Central Bank (ECB), European Central Bank (ECB), European Central Bank (ECB), Banco de España and Bank of Finland
Downloads 211 (306,508)
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drivers and policy implications, European Union, Productivity growth

Environmental Regulation and Productivity Growth in the Euro Area: Testing the Porter Hypothesis

ECB Working Paper No. 2023/2820
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 24 May 2023
Nicola Benatti, Martin Groiss, Petra Kelly and Paloma Lopez-Garcia
European Central Bank (ECB), University of Duisburg-Essen, Imperial College London and European Central Bank
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emissions, environmental regulation, euro area, Porter hypothesis, productivity

Environmental Regulation and Productivity Growth in the Euro Area: Testing the Porter Hypothesis

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 08 May 2023
Martin Groiss, Paloma Lopez-Garcia, Petra Kelly and Nicola Benatti
University of Duisburg-Essen, European Central Bank, Imperial College London and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Environmental regulation, Emissions, Porter hypothesis, Productivity, Euro Area

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Micro-Based Evidence of EU Competitiveness: The CompNet Database

ECB Working Paper No. 1634
Number of pages: 86 Posted: 08 Mar 2014
European Central Bank, European Central Bank (ECB), European Central Bank (ECB), European Central Bank (ECB), Bocconi University - Department of Policy Analysis and Public Management, Bank of Italy, Bank of Italy, University of Milan - Department of Economics, Management and Quantitative Methods (DEMM), Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), National Institute of Statistics (Istat), National Institute of Statistics (Istat), Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne - Centre Maison des Sciences Economiques, Banque de France, National Bank of Belgium, Bank of Portugal, Bank of Portugal, Bank of Portugal, National Bank of Romania, National Bank of Romania, National Bank of Slovakia, Institute for Applied Economic Research (IAW), Deutsche Bundesbank - Research Centre, Deutsche Bundesbank, National Bank of Poland, Banco de España, European Central Bank, Bank of Slovenia, Czech National Bank, Bank of Estonia and Joint Research Centre, Italy
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cross country analysis, firm-level data, competitiveness, productivity and size distribution, total factor productivity, allocative efficiency

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What Makes a High-Growth Firm? A Probit Analysis Using Spanish Firm-Level Data

Banco de Espana Working Paper No. 0920
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 13 Sep 2009
Paloma Lopez-Garcia and Sergio Puente
European Central Bank and Banco de España
Downloads 160 (393,290)
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Gazelles, Job creation, Firm-level data

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Business Cycles and Investment in Intangibles: Evidence from Spanish Firms

Banco de Espana Working Paper No. 1219
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 22 May 2012
Paloma Lopez-Garcia, Jose Manuel Montero and Enrique Moral-Benito
European Central Bank, Banco de España and Banco de España
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R&D, business cycle, credit constraints, panel data

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Labour Market Performance and Start-Up Costs: OECD Evidence

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 28 Feb 2003
Paloma Lopez-Garcia
European Central Bank
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Macroeconomics of Unemployment, Panel Data, Start-up Costs

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Business Environment and Labor Market Outcomes in Europe and Central Asia Countries

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3885
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Paloma Lopez-Garcia
European Central Bank
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Labor Markets, Economic Theory & Research, Markets and Market Access, Microfinance, Small Scale Enterprise

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Assessing European Competitiveness: The New CompNet Microbased Database

ECB Working Paper No. 1764
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 17 Mar 2015
Paloma Lopez-Garcia and Filippo di Mauro
European Central Bank and European Central Bank (ECB)
Downloads 140 (438,796)
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cross country analysis, firm-level data, competitiveness, productivity and size distribution, total factor productivity, allocative efficiency

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Compendium on the Diagnostic Toolkit for Competitiveness

ECB Occasional Paper No. 163
Number of pages: 84 Posted: 25 Sep 2015
European Central Bank (ECB) - Directorate General Economics, Bank of Latvia, European Central Bank (ECB), affiliation not provided to SSRN, European Central Bank (ECB), European Union - European Commission, Università della Svizzera italiana, European Central Bank (ECB), European Central Bank (ECB), Bank of Italy, European Central Bank (ECB), National Bank of Romania, German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), European Central Bank, Bulgarian National Bank, European Central Bank (ECB), European Central Bank (ECB), Banque de France, Banco de España, Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB), Latvijas Banka, De Nederlandsche Bank, Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB) and Bank of Italy
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Price/non-price competitiveness indicators; measuring competitiveness; determinants of competitiveness

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Firm Productivity Dynamics in Spain

Banco de España Working Paper No. 0739
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 17 Dec 2007
Paloma Lopez-Garcia, Sergio Puente and Ángel Luis Gómez
European Central Bank, Banco de España and Banco de España
Downloads 131 (462,859)
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entry and exit, micro-data, labour productivity

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The Post-Crisis TFP Growth Slowdown in CEE Countries: Exploring the Role of Global Value Chains

ECB Working Paper No. 2143, ISBN: 978-92-899-3248-6
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 18 Apr 2018
Francesco Chiacchio, Katerina Gradeva and Paloma Lopez-Garcia
European Central Bank (ECB), Goethe University Frankfurt and European Central Bank
Downloads 125 (480,162)
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TFP growth, Global Value Chains, technology diffusion, Central and Eastern Europe

Firm Heterogeneity and Trade in EU Countries: A Cross-Country Analysis

ECB Occasional Paper No. 225 (2019); ISBN 978-92-899-3690-3
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 25 Jun 2019
Claire Giordano and Paloma Lopez-Garcia
Bank of Italy and European Central Bank
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trade, firm heterogeneity, productivity, real effective exchange rates

Firm Heterogeneity and Trade in EU Countries: A Cross-Country Analysis

Bank of Italy Occasional Paper No. 506
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 03 Sep 2019
Claire Giordano and Paloma Lopez-Garcia
Bank of Italy and European Central Bank
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trade, firm heterogeneity, productivity, real effective exchange rates

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The Impact of Global Value Chains on the Euro Area Economy

ECB Occasional Paper No. 221 (2019); ISBN 978-92-899-3686-6
Number of pages: 121 Posted: 03 May 2019
European Central Bank (ECB), European Central Bank (ECB), European Central Bank (ECB), Bank of Latvia, European Central Bank (ECB), Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, European Central Bank (ECB), European Central Bank (ECB), World Bank, OECD, Goethe University Frankfurt, European Central Bank, European Central Bank (ECB), European Central Bank (ECB), European Central Bank (ECB), European Union - European Commission, European Central Bank (ECB), European Central Bank (ECB), European Central Bank (ECB), Bank of Italy, Frontier Economics and Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB)
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international trade, global value chains, vertical specialisation, international interlinkages, euro area

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The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Policy Support on Productivity

ECB Occasional Paper No. 2024/341
Number of pages: 105 Posted: 29 Feb 2024
National Bank of Slovakia, Bank of Greece, Bank of Greece, Bank of Latvia, Banque de France, De Nederlandsche Bank, Banque de France, European Central Bank (ECB), National Bank of Belgium, Bank of Italy, Banco de España, European Central Bank (ECB), European Central Bank (ECB), Banco de España, De Nederlandsche Bank, Latvijas Banka, European Central Bank (ECB), European Central Bank, Bank of Portugal - Research Department, Deutsche Bundesbank, Bank of Estonia, European Central Bank (ECB), Hrvatska Narodna Banka, European Central Bank (ECB), Hrvatska Narodna Banka, European Central Bank (ECB), Národná banka Slovenska, Bank of Finland and Bank of Slovenia
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adjustment of firms, COVID-19, cross-country analysis, Europe, government support, labour productivity, micro-distributed exercise, productivity-enhancing reallocation

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Cyclical and Stuctural Variation in Resource Reallocation: Evidence for Europe

Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper 2018-057/VI
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 27 Jun 2018
Eric J. Bartelsman, Paloma Lopez-Garcia and Giorgio Presidente
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, European Central Bank and World Bank
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Great Recession, Factor Reallocation

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Economic Structures 20 Years into the Euro

ECB Occasional Paper No. 2019/224
Number of pages: 79 Posted: 15 Jun 2019
European Central Bank (ECB), European Central BankECB, European Central Bank (ECB), European Central Bank (ECB), UBS AG, European Central Bank, European Central Bank (ECB) - Directorate General Economics, Bank of Greece, Banco de España and European Central Bank (ECB)
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economic structures, euro area, resilience, growth

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Employment Generation by Small Firms in Spain

Banco de Espana Occasional Paper No. 0903
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 06 Mar 2009
Paloma Lopez-Garcia, Sergio Puente and Ángel Luis Gómez
European Central Bank, Banco de España and Banco de España
Downloads 74 (680,335)
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Firm-level data, employment creation and destruction, firm size distribution

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Understanding the Spanish Business Innovation Gap: The Role of Spillovers and Firms’ Absorptive Capacity

Banco de Espana Working Paper No. 1015
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 29 Jun 2010
Jose Manuel Montero and Paloma Lopez-Garcia
Banco de España and European Central Bank
Downloads 71 (696,083)
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innovation, R&D, spillovers, absorptive capacity, skilled labour, temporary employment, dynamic RE probit model

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Firm Growth in Europe: An Overview Based on the CompNet Labour Module

ECB Working Paper No. 2048
Number of pages: 73 Posted: 24 Apr 2017
Banco de España, Banco Sabadell, S.A., European Central Bank, Università degli Studi di Udine - Department of Economics, European Central Bank (ECB), Bank of Finland and Banque Centrale du Luxembourg
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firm growth, micro-aggregated data, cross-country analysis

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Cyclical and Structural Variation in Resource Allocation: Evidence for Europe

ECB Working Paper No. 2210
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 05 Dec 2018
Eric J. Bartelsman, Paloma Lopez-Garcia and Giorgio Presidente
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, European Central Bank and World Bank
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Great Recession, factor reallocation

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Medium-Term Investment Responses to Activity Shocks: The Role of Corporate Debt

ECB Working Paper No. 2022/2751
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 17 Nov 2022
Rodrigo Barrela, Paloma Lopez-Garcia and Ralph Setzer
Nova School of Business and Economics, European Central Bank and European Central Bank (ECB)
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corporate debt, COVID shock, investment, leverage, local projections

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Productivity-Enhancing Reallocation During the COVID-19 Pandemic

ECB Working Paper No. 2024/2947
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 19 Jun 2024
Tibor Lalinsky, Jaanika Meriküll and Paloma Lopez-Garcia
National Bank of Slovakia, Bank of Estonia and European Central Bank
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adjustment of firms, COVID-19, cross-country analysis, job retention support, productivity-enhancing reallocation

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Global Entrepreneurship Monitor: Data Collection Design and Implementation 1998-2003

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Academy for Entrepreneurial Leadership Historical Research Reference in Entrepreneurship
Posted: 18 Nov 2009
affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN and European Central Bank

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Nations, Entrepreneurial Research Consortium, Entrepreneurial activity, Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), Global economy, Measurement techniques, Methodologies, Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics (PSED), Program evaluation, Surveys, Datasets, Economic development