2025/05/05 by Carlos María Fernández-Jardón, Xavier Martínez‐Cobas, Juan Manuel Trillo Santamaría +1 · 1 voice
Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Social Sciences · #Cross-Border Cooperation and Integration #Economic Zones and Regional Development #Migration and Labor Dynamics
paper · pdf · doi:10.1111/tesg.70009
openalex publication_date 2025/05/05 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01
Abstract This paper analyses the effect that the COVID pandemic had on border areas due to international border closures, specifically on the ‘Galician wet border’ of the international Spanish‐Portuguese border. This research focuses on how the pandemic affects sales, and the factors that condition sales in border areas. The results show that, although COVID had a significant impact on sales in all the municipalities analysed, there are no significant differences between border and non‐border municipalities. They also suggest that in the case of pandemics, the industrial organisation theory offers a better paradigm for action than the resource‐based view theory.