Zofío, J.L., Aparicio, J., Barbero, J., Zabala-Iturriagagoitia, J.M. (2024). Benchmarking performance through efficiency analysis trees: Improvement strategies for colombian higher education institutions, Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 92(101845): 1-5.
Barbero, J., Diukanova, O., Gianelle, C., Salotti, S., Santoalha, A. (2024). Technologically related diversification: One size does not fit all European regions, Research Policy, 53(3): 104973.
Marques Santos, A., Barbero, J., Salotti, S., Conte, A. (2023). Job creation and destruction in the digital age: Assessing heterogeneous effects across European Union countries, Economic Modelling, 126 (106405): 1-12.
Zofío, J.L., Aparicio, J., Barbero, J., Zabala-Iturriagagoitia, J.M. (2023). The influence of bottlenecks on innovation systems performance: Put the slowest climber first, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 193(122607): 1-15.
Barbero, J. and Zofío, J.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.
Persyn, D., Barbero, J., Díaz-Lanchas, J., Lecca, P., Mandras, G., Salotti, S. (2023). The ripple effects of large-scale transport infrastructure investment, Journal of Regional Science, 63(4): 755-792.
Santos, A., Barbero, J., Salotti, S., Diukanova, O., Pontikakis, D. (2023). On the road to regional ‘Competitive Environmental Sustainability’: the role of the European structural funds, Industry and Innovation, 30(7): 801-823.
Barbero, Javier; Conte, Andrea; Crucitti, Francesca; Lazarou, Nicholas-Joseph; Sakkas, Stylianos; and Salotti, Simone (2022). The impact of the recovery fund on EU regions: a spatial general equilibrium analysis. Regional Studies. Forthcoming. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2022.2123467
Barbero, Javier; Christensen, Martin; Conte, Andrea; Lecca, Patrizio; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés; and Salotti Simone (2022). Improving Government Quality in the Regions of the EU and its System-Wide Benefits for Cohesion Policy. Journal of Common Market Studies. Forthcoming. 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; Barbero, Javier (2022), Estimating road transport costs between and within European Union regions, Transport Policy, 124, 33-42. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2020.04.006
Barbero, Javier; De Lucio, Juan; y Rodríguez-Crespo, Ernesto (2021). Effects of COVID-19 on trade flows: measuring their impact through government policy responses. PLoS ONE, 16(10): e0258356 . https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0258356
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. Volume 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; 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; 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; 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, 16(2): 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, 48(24): 2238-2252. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2015.1117048