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    Mandatory due diligence for ‘conflict minerals’ and illegally logged timber: Emergence and cascade of a new norm on foreign accountability 

    Partzsch, Lena; Vlaskamp, Martijn (Publication date: 2016-10-30)

    The European Union, the United States, and a number of other state actors have adopted policies obliging companies to conduct supply chain due diligence regarding the import of natural resources. While several authors have ...

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    What is the role of innovation strategies? Evidence from Spanish firms 

    Jové-Llopis, Elisenda; Segarra Blasco, Agustí, 1958- (Publication date: 2016-09)

    This paper discusses the determinants of two alternative measures of innovative success/output by looking at firm’s innovation strategies. These relationships are also discussed by distinguishing between firms belonging ...

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    Modelización de la dependencia del número de siniestros. Aplicación a Solvencia II 

    Castañer, Anna; Claramunt Bielsa, M. Mercè, 1964-; Tadeo, Alba; Varea, Javier (Publication date: 2016-09-12)

    En este trabajo se estudia el efecto de la dependencia entre dos subcarteras en el requerimiento de capital obligatorio (SCR) por primas y reservas en una cartera de seguros no vida. Para ello, la dependencia se establece ...

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    Guidelines for CERIF-XML Data Exchange with CSUC’s Catalan Research Portal (PRC) (Version 2.4) 

    de Castro, Pablo; Jörg, Brigitte; Martinez, Albert; Buenaposada, Pablo (Publication date: 2016-07)

    The Catalan Research Portal (Portal de la Recerca de Catalunya or PRC) is an initiative carried out by the Consortium for University Services in Catalonia (CSUC) in coordination with nearly all universities in Catalonia. ...

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    Data Management Plans: Version 1, July 2016 

    Consorci de Serveis Universitaris de Catalunya (Publication date: 2016-07-28)

    This document is intended to support researchers in creating their Data Management Plans. It is specifically aimed at projects financed under the EU's Horizon 2020 programme.

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    Plans de Gestió de Dades: Versió 1, Juliol 2016 

    Consorci de Serveis Universitaris de Catalunya (Publication date: 2016-07-28)

    Document que vol servir de recolzament als investigadors a l’hora de crear els seus Plans de Gestió de Dades; concretament, per als projectes finançats en el marc de l’Horitzó 2020 de la Unió Europea.

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    Recomanacions per seleccionar un repositori per al dipòsit de dades de recerca: Versió 1, Juliol 2016 

    Consorci de Serveis Universitaris de Catalunya (Publication date: 2016-07-27)

    Document adreçat al recolzament dels investigadors en el moment de seleccionar un repositori per al dipòsit de les seves dades de recerca atès que a partir de l’any 2017 l’Open Research Data Pilot (ORD Pilot) de l’Horizon ...

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    CBUC 2004- 2013 : Els últims deu anys d’activitats i de presència pública 

    Consorci de Biblioteques Universitàries de Catalunya (Publication date: 2015-10)

    Selecció d'articles, ponències i presentacions il·lustratives dels darrers deu anys d'història del Consorci i dels seus projectes i activitats.

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    When one door closes: the impact of the hagwon curfew on the consumption of private tutoring in the Republic of Korea 

    Choi, Hoon; Choi Mendizábal, Álvaro B. (Álvaro Borja) (Publication date: 2015-11-18)

    The Korean government has struggled against the proliferation of private tutoring for more than four decades. In 2006, state education authorities imposed a restriction on operating hours of hagwon (private tutoring academies ...

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    De la biblioteca al CRAI: una aproximación al avance del modelo en España 

    Pacios Lozano, Ana Reyes (Publication date: 2015-11)

    Propósito: Se presenta un estado de la cuestión de la biblioteca universitaria en España en los últimos diez años (2003-2013), desde que se evidencia el apoyo de la Red de bibliotecas universitarias en su proceso de ...

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    Growing through trade: the role of foreign growth and domestic tariffs 

    Álvarez-Albelo, Carmen D.; Manresa, Antonio, 1954-; Pigem i Vigo, Mònica (Publication date: 2015-11-05)

    This paper studies the role of trading partner’ growth and a domestic import tariff in the possibility of growing through trade. To this purpose, a Ricardian model is developed in which a backward economy seeks to increase ...

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    Your language or mine? 

    Caminal, Ramon; Di Paolo, Antonio (Publication date: 2015-11-06)

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    Bilingual schooling and earnings: evidence from a language-in-education reform 

    Cappellari, Lorenzo; Di Paolo, Antonio (Publication date: 2015-10-02)

    We exploit the 1983 language-in-education reform that introduced Catalan alongside Spanish as medium of instruction in Catalan schools to estimate the labour market value of bilingual education. Identification is achieved ...

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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 (Publication date: 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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    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 (Publication date: 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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    Guidelines for CERIF-XML Data Exchange with CSUC’s Catalan Research Portal (PRC) (Version 2.3) 

    de Castro, Pablo; Jörg, Brigitte; Martinez, Albert; Buenaposada, Pablo (Publication date: 2015-07-10)

    The Catalan Research Portal (Portal de la Recerca de Catalunya or PRC) is an initiative carried out by the Consortium for University Services in Catalonia (CSUC) in coordination with nearly all universities in Catalonia. ...

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    Gestió de les dades de recerca i biblioteques: relacions, activitats, motors i influències 

    Pinfield, Stephen; Cox, Andrew M.; Smith, Jen (Publication date: 2015-04)

    La gestió de les dades de recerca és un gran repte per a les organitzacions de recerca. Grans quantitats de dades nascudes en entorns digitals estant essent produïdes en una vasta quantitat de formats a un ritme molt ...

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    Guidelines for CERIF-XML Data Exchange with CSUC’s Catalan Research Portal (PRC) (Version 2.2) 

    de Castro, Pablo; Jörg, Brigitte; Martinez, Albert; Buenaposada, Pablo (Publication date: 2015-02)

    The Catalan Research Portal (Portal de la Recerca de Catalunya or PRC) is an initiative carried out by the Consortium for University Services in Catalonia (CSUC) in coordination with nearly all universities in Catalonia. ...

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    Estimating extreme value cumulative distribution functions using bias-corrected kernel approaches 

    Bolancé Losilla, Catalina; Bahraoui, Zuhair; Alemany Leira, Ramon (Publication date: 2015-01-21)

    We propose a new kernel estimation of the cumulative distribution function based on transformation and on bias reducing techniques. We derive the optimal bandwidth that minimises the asymptotic integrated mean squared ...

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    Els recursos electrònics a les biblioteques acadèmiques: Avenços recents en la cooperació a Europa 

    Giordano, Tommaso (Publication date: 2015-01)

    En els darrers vint anys la informació en línia ha esdevingut un factor decisiu per a l’activitat acadèmica i de recerca, i en conseqüència els recursos electrònics s’han anat “apropiant” progressivament d’una part cada ...