Organismes i activitats interuniversitàries: Recent submissions
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Macroeconomics of extensive margins: a simple model
How do monopolistically competitive industries react to shocks in the context of a New Keynesian macro model? I bridge macroeconomics and trade theory by considering market dynamics. I use an analytically tractable ...
Un cop d’ull a Resource description & acces (RDA) i al seu futur
Es tracta d’una sessió introductòria que se centra en els aspectes més generals de la nova normativa: el marc conceptual en el qual es fonamenta la RDA (els models FRBR i FRAD), els objectius, l’organització de les normes, ...
El GEPA, d’una antiga caserna militar a un equipament bibliotecari per a documents de baix ús
A començaments d’aquest segle xxi entre algunes de les biblioteques universitàries de Catalunya va sorgir una necessitat: la manca d’espai i la reconversió de les biblioteques físiques en el nou panorama educatiu. El ...
R&D cooperation between Spanish firms and scientific partners: what is the role of tertiary education?
This paper explores the factors that determine firm’s R&D cooperation with different partners, paying special attention on the role of tertiary education (degree and PhDs level) in facilitating the connection between the ...
Does grade retention affect achievement? Some evidence from PISA
Grade retention practices are at the forefront of the educational debate. In this paper, we use PISA 2009 data for Spain to measure the effect of grade retention on students achievement. One important problem when analyzing ...
The Digital Memory of Catalonia, Consortium of Academic Libraries of Catalonia
The Digital Memory of Catalonia, Consortium of Academic Libraries of Catalonia, contains open-access digitized collections of photographs, drawings, maps, posters, pamphlets, incunabula, ancient Catalan periodicals and ...
Comrades or Culprits? Donor Engagement and Budget Transparency in Aid Dependent Countries
Budget transparency has come to be considered a key aspect of governance. Over the past decade, donors have invested increasing resources in strengthening processes through which budget transparency in developing countries ...
The impact of agglomeration effects and accessibility on wages
This paper contributes to the empirical literature on the effects of agglomeration and road accessibility on productivity of firms by looking at the case of Spain. We approach productivity indirectly by using individual ...
A New open economy macroeconomic model with endogenous portfolio diversification and firms entry
This paper provides a new benchmark for the analysis of the international diversi cation puzzle in a tractable new open economy macroeconomic model. Building on Cole and Obstfeld (1991) and Heathcote and Perri (2009), this ...
Evaluation of subsidies programs to sell green cars: Impact on prices, quantities and efficiency
During the recent period of economic crisis, many countries have introduced scrappage schemes to boost the sale and production of vehicles, particularly of vehicles designed to pollute less. In this paper, we analyze the ...
A logistic regression approach to estimating customer profit loss due to lapses in insurance
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 ...
A correlation sensitivity analysis of non-life underwriting risk in solvency capital requirement estimation
This paper analyses the impact of using different correlation assumptions between lines of business when estimating the risk-based capital reserve, the Solvency Capital Requirement (SCR), under Solvency II regulations. A ...
Age effects, unobserved characteristics and hedonic price indexes: The Spanish car market in the 1990s
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 ...
Ús i disponibilitat d'informació científica entre els investigadors de les universitats del CBUC
El present treball presenta els resultats d’un estudi sobre la utilització i la disponibilitat d’informació científica entre els investigadors de les universitats del CBUC. Per a la seva realització s’han emprat dues ...
Mixture of bivariate Poisson regression models with an application to insurance
In a recent paper Bermúdez [2009] used bivariate Poisson regression models for ratemaking in car insurance, and included zero-inflated models to account for the excess of zeros and the overdispersion in the data set. In ...
Preserving Electronic Theses through the MetaArchive network
In the recent years most libraries have focused on mass digitization programs and keeping electronic born documents, showing and organizing them in a repository. While those repositories have evolved to a much more manageable ...
Estimation of parametric and nonparametric models for univariate claim severity distributions - an approach using R
This paper presents an analysis of motor vehicle insurance claims relating to vehicle damage and to associated medical expenses. We use univariate severity distributions estimated with parametric and non-parametric methods. ...
How much risk is mitigated by LTC Insurance? A case study of the public system in Spain
We present a methodology that allows to calculate the impact of a given Long-Term Care (LTC) insurance protection system on the risk of incurring extremely large individual lifetime costs. Our proposed methodology is ...
The link between public support and private R&D effort: What is the optimal subsidy?
The effectiveness of R&D subsidies can vary substantially depending on their characteristics. Specifically, the amount and intensity of such subsidies are crucial issues in the design of public schemes supporting private ...
¿Afecta la sobreeducación de los padres al rendimiento académico de sus hijos?
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 ...
