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Profitability, uncertainty and multi-product firm product proliferation: The Spanish car industry
This article studies how product introduction decisions relate to profitability and uncertainty in the context of multi-product firms and product differentiation. These two features, common to many modern industries, have ...
Ecological Footprint Inequality: A methodological review and some results
Scarcities of environmental services are no longer merely a remote hypothesis. Consequently, analysis of their inequalities between nations becomes of paramount importance for the achievement of sustainability in terms ...
Intermediary and structural determinants of early childhood health in Colombia: exploring the role of communities
This study examines how structural determinants influence intermediary factors of child health inequities and how they operate through the communities where children live. In particular, we explore individual, family and ...
What about people in European Regional Science?
The 51st ERSA Conference held in Barcelona in 2011 was one of the largest ever. Here, by examining the characteristics of the conference, this paper identifies the main trends in Regional Science at a moment in which the ...
Local Distance-Based Generalized Linear Models using the dbstats package for R
This paper introduces local distance-based generalized linear models. These models extend (weighted) distance-based linear models firstly with the generalized linear model concept, then by localizing. Distances between ...
Los límites de la compacidad urbana como instrumento a favor de la sostenibilidad. La hipótesis de la compensación en Barcelona medida a través de la huella ecológica de la movilidad y la vivienda
La hipótesis de la compensación plantea la posibilidad de que los individuos que viven en centros urbanos densos tengan una mayor propensión a disponer de una segunda residencia y/o llevar a cabo desplazamientos más ...
Sunk costs, extensive R&D subsidies and permanent inducement effects
We study whether there is scope for using subsidies to smooth out barriers to R&D performance and expand the share of R&D firms in Spain. We consider a dynamic model with sunk entry costs in which firms’ optimal participation ...
What underlies localization and urbanization economies? Evidence from the location of new firms
The objective of this paper is to analyze why firms in some industries locate in specialized economic environments (localization economies) while those in other industries prefer large city locations (urbanization economies). ...
Changes in wage structure in Mexico going beyond the mean: An analysis of differences in distribution, 1987-2008
This paper conducts an empirical analysis of the relationship between wage inequality, employment structure, and returns to education in urban areas of Mexico during the past two decades (1987-2008). Applying Melly’s (2005) ...
Quantitative analysis of image factors in a cultural heritage tourist destination
The tourism consumer’s purchase decision process is, to a great extent, conditioned by the image the tourist has of the different destinations that make up his or her choice set. In a highly competitive international tourist ...
Discrete time Non-homogeneous Semi-Markov Processes applied to Models for Disability Insurance
In this paper, we present a stochastic model for disability insurance contracts. The model is based on a discrete time non-homogeneous semi-Markov process (DTNHSMP) to which the backward recurrence time process is introduced. ...
Driving competition in local gasoline markets
Relevant market definition is still a key element of economic analysis of competition in the gasoline market. It is particularly difficult to handle when competition is local and market power is geographically constrained ...
Can You Home Again? Desertion and Control of Hometowns in Civil Wars
What allows an armed group in a civil war to prevent desertion? This paper addresses this question with a focus on control in the rearguard. Most past studies focus on motivations for desertion. They explain desertion in ...
Evaluating antitrust leniency programs
This paper identifies and then quantifies econometrically the impact of leniency programs on the perception of the effectiveness of antitrust policies using country level panel data for a 10-year span. Leniency programs ...
How to use the standard model with own data?
In this work discuss the use of the standard model for the calculation of the solvency capital requirement (SCR) when the company aims to use the specific parameters of the model on the basis of the experience of its ...
Solvency Capital estimation and Risk Measures
This paper examines why a financial entity’s solvency capital estimation might be underestimated if the total amount required is obtained directly from a risk measurement. Using Monte Carlo simulation we show that, in ...
Gestión de objetos digitales con ContentDm: estudio de caso en el Consorci de Biblioteques Universitàries de Catalunya y el Institut Cartogràfic de Catalunya
La gestión de objetos digitales, ya sean imágenes u otros tipos de ficheros digitales, supone un reto para las organizaciones. Es un proceso estratégico en el que están implicadas varias tareas dentro de la propia institución, ...
Growth in a Cross-Section of Cities: Location, Increasing Returns or Random Growth?
This article analyzes empirically the main existing theories on income and population city growth: increasing returns to scale, locational fundamentals and random growth. To do this we implement a threshold nonlinearity ...
The determinants of YIc's R&D activity
This paper examines the determinants of young innovative companies’ (YICs) R&D activities taking into account the autoregressive nature of innovation. Using a large longitudinal dataset comprising Spanish manufacturing ...
The Innovation and Imitation Dichotomy in Spanish firms: do absorptive capacity and the technological frontier matter?
This paper analyses whether a firm’s absorptive capacity and its distance from the technological frontier affect the choice between innovation and imitation in innovative Spanish firms. From an extensive survey of 5,575 ...
