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    A logistic regression approach to estimating customer profit loss due to lapses in insurance 

    Guillén, Montserrat; Pérez Marín, Ana María; Alcañiz, Manuela (2011-10)

    This article focuses on business risk management in the insurance industry. A methodology for estimating the profit loss caused by each customer in the portfolio due to policy cancellation is proposed. Using data from a ...

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    A territorial approach to R&D subsidies: Empirical evidence for Catalonian firms 

    Segarra Blasco, Agustí, 1958-; Teruel, Mercedes; Bové Sans, Miquel Àngel (2014-09)

    Using a database of 2,263 responses to R&D public calls in Catalonia, during the period 2007–2010, this paper proceeds to analyse the potential interaction of the territorial and policy dimensions with the propensity to ...

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    The Accessibility City. When Transport Infrastructure Matters in Urban Spatial Structure 

    García López, Miquel-Àngel (2010-02)

    Suburbanization is changing the urban spatial structure and less monocentric metropolitan regions are becoming the new urban reality. Focused only on centers, most works have studied these spatial changes neglecting the ...

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    L'accés als recursos web des de les biblioteques 

    Abadal, Ernest; Estivill Rius, Assumpció (2000-01)

    L’objecte central del present informe és descriure l’estat de la qüestió –tant a Catalunya com a altres països– de l’accés als recursos web des de les biblioteques. De fet, l’objectiu últim és presentar i analitzar la ...

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    Accés i Recuperació de Continguts en Líni@ (ARC@) : la gestió dels materials docents a la UOC 

    Serrano-Muñoz, Jordi (2005-04)

    Arc@ té per objectiu millorar el procés d'aprenentatge de l'estudiant i facilitar l'eficiència en els processos de gestió docent i de continguts. Amb independència de la ubicació del material docent, s'han establert ...

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    Accés Obert a la informació científica : el mandat del CIC i la declaració de Granada 

    Anglada i de Ferrer, Lluís M.; Abadal, Ernest (2010-07-08)

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    ¿Afecta la sobreeducación de los padres al rendimiento académico de sus hijos? 

    Nieto, Sandra; Ramos Lobo, Raúl (2011-05)

    Distintos trabajos han analizado la relevancia del desajuste educativo y de sus consecuencias sobre los trabajadores que la padecen. Dicho análisis es especialmente importante en el caso de España, ya que presenta uno de ...

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    Age effects, unobserved characteristics and hedonic price indexes: The Spanish car market in the 1990s 

    Varela-Irimia, Xosé-Luís (2011-08)

    This paper computes and compares alternative quality-adjusted price indexes for new cars in Spain in the period 1990-2000. The proposed hedonic approach simultaneously controls for time-invariant unobserved product e¤ects ...

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    Alternation and Cooperation in a Two-party System: Implications for Resource-Based Developing Economies 

    Astorga Junquera, Pablo (2012-11)

    This paper studies cooperation in a political system dominated by two opportunistic parties competing in a resource-based economy. Since a binding agreement as an external solution might be difficult to enforce due to the ...

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    Alternative methods of estimating the longevity risk 

    Bolancé Losilla, Catalina; Guillén, Montserrat; Ornelas Vargas, Arelly (2018-10)

    The aim of this paper is to estimate the longevity rsk and its trend according to the age of the individual. We focus on individuals over 65. We use the value-at-risk to measure the longevity risk. We have proposed the use ...

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    Altres catàlegs col·lectius. Eines del Museu de la Música de Barcelona 

    Museu de la Música de Barcelona (2024-11-28)

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    An Analysis of black-box optimization problems in reinsurance: evolutionary-based approaches 

    Salcedo-Sanz, Sancho; Carro Calvo, L.; Claramunt Bielsa, M. Mercè, 1964-; Castañer, Anna; Mármol, Maite (2013-05)

    Black-box optimization problems (BBOP) are de ned as those optimization problems in which the objective function does not have an algebraic expression, but it is the output of a system (usually a computer program). This ...

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    An analysis of wage differentials between full- and part-time workers in Spain 

    Ramos i Garcia, Raül; Sanromà, Esteve; Simón, Hipólito (2008-08)

    This research examines wage differences between part-time and full-time workers using microdata from the Spanish Structure of Earnings Survey. The main contribution of the paper is related to the analysis of differences ...

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    Analyzing Wage Differentials by Fields of Study: Evidence from Turkey 

    Di Paolo, Antonio; Tansel, Aysit; Sliding wage scale (2017-10)

    This paper analyzes the drivers of wage differences among college graduates who hold a degree in a different field of study. We focus on Turkey, an emerging country that is characterized by a sustained expansion of higher ...

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    Anàlisi de viabilitat d'un entorn informàtic comú per al nou sistema de gestió de les biblioteques universitàries 

    Peña Camacho, Manuel (2004-04)

    Totes les universitats públiques catalanes, entre d'altres institucions, fan servir el programari VTLS per a la gestió de les seves biblioteques. Per a aquesta funció, cada universitat disposa d'un sistema propi en què ...

    Análisis de una iniciativa estudiantil de investigación surgida en Criptogamia, una asignatura optativa de segundo ciclo de Biología = Analysis of a students’ research initiative originating in Cryptogamy, an elective course in the last two years of the Biology degree 

    Estébanez, Belén; García Medina, Nagore; Ávila, Julia; Orgaz Álvarez, David; Fernández-Mazuecos, Mario; Vassal'lo Saco, Jara (2009-05-06)

    Presentamos una experiencia exitosa de aprendizaje que partió de Criptogamia (asignatura optativa de segundo ciclo de Biología), que dio lugar a un proyecto de investigación gestionado por los propios alumnos. La iniciativa ...