Organismes i activitats interuniversitàries: Envíos recientes
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Multivariate count data generalized linear models: Three approaches based on the Sarmanov distribution
Starting from the question: “What is the accident risk of an insured?”, this paper considers a multivariate approach by taking into account three types of accident risks and the possible dependence between them. Driven by ...
Taxing high-income earners: Tax avoidance and mobility
The taxation of high-income earners is of importance to every country and is the subject of a considerable amount of recent academic research. Such high-income earners contribute substantial amounts of tax and generate ...
Does electoral competition curb party favoritism?
We study whether incumbents facing uncontested elections channel public spending towards co‐partisan officials more than is the case of incumbents that are worried about their chances of re‐election. To do so, we draw on ...
La identificació unívoca d'institucions de recerca
Aquest informe analitza els problemes que suscita la identificació unívoca de la producció bibliogràfica de centres de recerca i les principals solucions proposades. El treball s'estructura en 4 parts: analitza les dificultats ...
What drives migration moves across urban areas in Spain? Evidence from the Great Recession
In Spain, economic disparities between regions have traditionally played a relevant role in migration. Nevertheless, during the previous high-instability period, analyses provided conflicting results about the effect of ...
Analyzing Wage Differentials by Fields of Study: Evidence from Turkey
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 ...
Globalization, long-haul flights and inter-city connections
In this paper, we examine the impact of non-stop flights on the connectivity of European cities with distant locations from the rest of the world. We use data on inter-city passenger flows including non-stop and connecting ...
Persistent and transient efficiency on the stochastic production and cost frontiers – an application to the motorway sector
This paper implements both stochastic production and cost frontier analyses to estimate the efficiency of toll motorway companies in Spain, the country with the largest number of private concessionaires in this economic ...
Recomanacions per seleccionar un repositori per al dipòsit de dades de recerca: Versió 3, Maig 2017
Aquest document té per objectiu recolzar els 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 ...
Trencant registres: la història dels registres bibliogràfics i la seva influència en la conceptualització de les dades bibliogràfiques
Un registre bibliogràfic és una unitat conceptual que inclou tota la informació bibliogràfica sobre un recurs en un sol lloc. Amb el web semàntic, les declaracions de dades individuals s’enllacen per mitjà del web. En ...
Plans de Gestió de Dades: Versió 2, Desembre 2016
Aquest document vol servir de suport 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 Comissió Europea per crear plans de ...
Data Management Plans: Version 2, December 2016
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 to create a FAIR data management plan (version ...
Improving automobile insurance ratemaking using telematics: incorporating mileage and driver behaviour data
We show how data collected from a GPS device can be incorporated in motor insurance ratemaking. The calculation of premium rates based upon driver behaviour represents an opportunity for the insurance sector. Our approach ...
How do road infrastructure investments affect the regional economy? Evidence from Spain
This paper analyses the relationship between road infrastructure improvements and investment in capital assets. Using aggregate data at a provincial level for 1977-2008, an equation for machinery and equipment investment ...
Financial constraints and the failure of innovation projects
Theoretical and empirical approaches have stressed the existence of financial constraints in firms’ innovative activities. Although a large number of innovation projects are abandoned before their completion, the empirical ...
Gestió de les dades de recerca: resultats de l'enquesta prospectiva a gener de 2016
Enquesta destinada als responsables dels diferents projectes de les Universitats de Catalunya que rebien finançament del programa Horitzó 2020 de la Comissió Europea, independentment de si formaven o no part de l'Open ...
Next train to the polycentric city: The effect of railroads on subcenter formation
Recent evidence reveals that transportation’s improvements within metropolitan areas have a clear effect on population and job decentralization processes. Yet, very little has been said on how these improvements affect the ...
Local labor market effects of public employment
This paper quantifies the impact of public employment on local labor markets in the long-run. We adopt two quantitative approaches and apply them to the case of Spanish cities. In the first, we develop a 3-sector (public, ...
Recomanacions per seleccionar un repositori per al dipòsit de dades de recerca: Versió 2, Novembre 2016
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 ...
El nuevo paradigma de la gestión de la colección en las bibliotecas universitarias: de la crisis a la revolución
Este trabajo tiene como objetivo argumentar la evolución de la gestión de la colección como un proceso gradual donde factores internos y externos interactúan para trasformar la colección y sus actividades de gestión. En ...
