Organismes i activitats interuniversitàries: Enviaments recents
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Generic drugs in Spain: price competition vs. moral hazard
This paper examines competition between generic and brand-name drugs in the regulated Spanish pharmaceutical market. A nested logit demand model is specified for the three most consumed therapeutic subgroups in Spain: ...
What if there was a stronger pharmaceutical price competition in Spain? When regulation has a similar effect to collusion
This paper examines statins competition in the Spanish pharmaceutical market, where prices are highly regulated, and simulates a situation in which there is unrestricted price competition. A nested logit demand model is ...
Loss risk through fraud in car insurance
Our objective is to analyse fraud as an operational risk for the insurance company. We study the effect of a fraud detection policy on the insurer's results account, quantifying the loss risk from the perspective of claims ...
Singling out individual inventors from patent data
An increasing number of studies have sprung up in recent years seeking to identify individual inventors from patent data. Different heuristics have been suggested to use their names and other information disclosed in patent ...
Impacte de la inversió en biblioteques sobre l'activitat de recerca de les universitats
Aquesta revisió analitza les conclusions d'una desena de treballs realitzats a Estats Units i el Regne Unit que estudien la contribució de la biblioteca a la missió institucional de la universitat de la qual depenen. Més ...
An empirical analysis of a merger between a network and low-cost airlines
We use a difference-in-difference estimator to examine the effects of a merger involving three airlines. The novelty lies in the examination of this operation in two distinct scenarios: (1) on routes where two low-cost ...
What are the causes of educational inequalities and of their evolution over time in Europe? Evidence from PISA
This paper provides evidence on the sources of differences in inequalities in educational scores in European Union member states, by decomposing them into their determining factors. Using PISA data from the 2000 and 2006 ...
Why do educated mothers matter? A model of parental help
The paper investigates the role of mothers in affecting childrens' performance at school. It develops a theoretical model in which household is treated as an individual, whose utility depends on the performance at school ...
Is it redistribution or centralization? On the determinants of government investment in infrastructure
The dilemma efficiency versus equity, together with political partisan interests, has received increasing attention to explain the territorial allocation of investments. However, centralization intended to introduce or ...
Technology, business models and network structure in the airline industry
Network airlines have been increasingly focusing their operations on hub airports through the exploitation of connecting traffic, allowing them to take advantage of economies of traffic density, which are unequivocal in ...
Clustering or scattering: the underlying reason for regulating distance among retail outlets
Concerns on the clustering of retail industries and professional services in main streets had traditionally been the public interest rationale for supporting distance regulations. Although many geographic restrictions have ...
School composition effects in Spain
Drawing on PISA data of 2006, this study examines the impact of socio-economic school composition on science test score achievement for Spanish students in compulsory secondary schools. We define school composition in terms ...
Banning Obsolete Weapons or Reshaping Perceptions of Military Utility: Discursive Dynamics in Weapons Prohibitions
The paper focuses on the argumentative process through which new international norms prohibiting the use of weapons causing severe civilian harm emerge. It examines the debate surrounding the use and usefulness of landmines ...
Divergent Reactions to Globalization: Labor Unions and the Nafta and the EU Enlargement Process
The 1990s witnessed the launching of two ambitious trade regionalization plans, the Nafta and EU enlargement to Central and Eastern Europe. In contrast to previous projects for the creation or expansion of regional trade ...
The New Institutions of Transatlantic Aviation
This article focuses on the institutions of transatlantic aviation since 1945, and aims at extracting from this historical process topical policy implications. Using the methodology of an analytic narrative, we describe ...
Exploring educational mobility in Europe
This paper is concerned with the investigation of the intergenerational mobility of education in several European countries and its changes across birth cohorts (1940-1980) using a new mobility index that considers the ...
