• Editorial statement: Lessons from Goodhart’s law for the management of the journal 

      Varela, Diego; Benedetto, Giacomo; Sánchez Santos, José Manuel (Universidade da Coruña, Servizo de Publicacións, 2014)
      [Abstract] In this editorial statement we summarise some of the discussions we have had in the last months regarding the risks associated with the use of indicators for the measurement of research outputs, and how these ...
    • Editorial statement: The first five years of the European Journal of Government and Economics 

      Varela, Diego; Benedetto, Giacomo; Sánchez Santos, José Manuel (Universidade da Coruña, Servizo de Publicacións, 2016)
      [Abstract] This editorial statement reflects on the experience from the first five years of the European Journal of Government and Economics and proposes some broad ideas about what we believe should be the future of the ...
    • Editorial Statement: the First Two Years of EJGE 

      Varela, Diego; Benedetto, Giacomo; Sánchez Santos, José Manuel (Universidade da Coruña, Servizo de Publicacións, 2013)
      [Abstract] In this editorial statement we explain the developments in the European Journal of Government and Economics in its second year of existence. In this period, the journal has continued its international expansion, ...
    • Editorial statement: The first year of the European Journal of Government and Economics 

      Varela, Diego; Benedetto, Giacomo; Sánchez Santos, José Manuel (Universidade da Coruña, Servizo de Publicacións, 2012)
      [Abstract] In this editorial statement we present a balance of the first year of life of the European Journal of Government and Economics. We discuss the main developments that concern the journal’s indexation by academic ...
    • Editorial statement: Why do we need a European Journal of Government and Economics? 

      Varela, Diego; Benedetto, Giacomo; Sánchez Santos, José Manuel (Universidade da Coruña, Servizo de Publicacións, 2012)
      [Abstract] In this editorial statement we explain the reasons for the creation of the European Journal of Government and Economics. We argue that there is a general shortage of academic journals. Although the new journal ...
    • Interest rate setting at the ECB: Individual preferences and collective decision making 

      Cancelo de la Torre, José Ramón; Varela, Diego; Sánchez Santos, José Manuel (Elsevier, 2011)
      We investigate whether the members of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank take into account the specific economic conditions of their states of origin, to set the interest rates for the euro area. Testing ...
    • Reproductive selection and human evolution: An empirical analysis for Spain, 2010 

      Varela, Diego (2011-12-23)
      [Abstract] In this paper I investigate whether there is an economic bias in the reproduction of humans in Spain using data from the Encuesta de Presupuestos Familiares (Household Budget Survey) of 2010. The main result is ...