Universitat Rovira i Virgili: Enviaments recents
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Gathering support from rivals: the two agent case with random order
Which alternative is selected when voters are called to participate in a sequential voting? Does the ordering matter? The current approach is the first attempt to analyze these questions. Specifically, we propose a ...
Brownian Signals: Information Quality, Quantity and Timing in Repeated Games
This paper examines different Brownian information structures for varying time intervals. We focus on the non-limit case and on the trade-offs between information quantity and quality to efficiently establish incentives. ...
Capital accumulation and income inequality
In this paper, I study an alternative mechanism to the one proposed by Sato et al. (2008). Like Sato et al.’ (2008), I propose a theoretical model where the individuals’ innate potential and the technological level determine ...
Innovation success: What is the role of innovation strategies?
The objective of this paper is to explore the role played by firms' strategies during innovation process and its effects on innovation success. We argue that firm's innovative decisions not only concern how much innovation ...
Unilateral Effects Screens for Partial Horizontal Acquisitions: The Generalized HHI and GUPPI
Recent years have witnessed an increased interest, by competition agencies, in assessing the competitive effects of partial acquisitions. We propose a generalization to a partial horizontal acquisition setting of the two ...
Are parliaments with more parties cheaper to Bribe?
We collect data about 172 countries: their parliaments, level of corruption, perceptions of corruption of parliament and political parties. We find weak empirical evidence supporting the conclusion that corruption increases ...
The Effects of Corruption in a Monetary Union
Many countries around the world suffer from corruption. In a monetary union, corruption varies from one country to another. It is possible corruption in one country may affect another country in a monetary union. We ...
Seasonality of hotel demand in the main Spanish provinces: measurements and decomposition exercises
This paper analyses the seasonal concentration of tourist activity in the main Spanish provinces for the period 1999-2012, taking hotel nights as the indicator of reference. We propose using several standard summary measures ...
Urban Employment in Small Businesses and the Level of Economic Development: Evidence from Chinese Cities
Based on a panel of Chinese cities over the period 2004-2009, we analyze the relationship between the level of economic development and the share of urban employment in small businesses. We find that this relationship can ...
The determinants of partner choice for cooperative innovation: The effect of competition
This study analyses the effect of competition intensity as a determinant of cooperative partner choice. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first attempt to study the relationship between research and development ...
A mechanism to pick the deserving winner
A group of individuals is choosing an individual (the winner) among themselves, when the identity of the deserving winner is a common knowledge among individuals. A simple mechanism of voting by veto is proposed as an ...
Creative Industries: a Preliminary Insight to their Location Determinants
This paper is about location decisions of Creative Industries and the role played by existent spatial distribution and agglomeration economies of these kinds of activities in order to analyse their location determinants. ...
The impact of FTAs on MENA trade in agricultural and industrial products
This paper analyses the impact of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) on Middle East and North African Countries (MENA) trade for the period 1994-2010. The analysis distinguishes between industrial and agricultural trade to take ...
The International Distribution of Energy Intensities: some synthetic results
The paper examines the international distribution of energy intensities as a conventional proxy indicator of energy efficiency and sustainability in the consumption of resources, by employing some descriptive tools from ...
Gender diversity and innovation in manufacturing and service firms
Traditionally, researchers have considered the innovation process as being gender neutral. However, recently some studies have begun to take gender diversity into account as a determinant of firms’ innovation. This paper ...
Some Notes and Comments on the Efficient use of Information in Repeated Games with Poisson Signals
In the present paper we characterize the optimal use of Poisson signals to establish incentives in the "bad" and "good" news models of Abreu et al. [1]. In the former, for small time intervals the signals' quality is high ...
Energy efficiency determinants: An empirical analysis of Spanish innovative firms
This paper examines the extent to which innovative Spanish firms pursue improvements in energy efficiency (EE) as an objective of innovation. The increase in energy consumption and its impact on greenhouse gas emissions ...
Microfinance and credit rationing in Ghana: Does the microfinance type matter?
This study sets out to examine the extent to which access to credit and credit rationing are influenced by the microfinance type based on the major factors determining micro, small and medium enterprises’ access to credit ...
Do Schools Discriminate Against Homosexual Parents? Evidence from an Internet Field Experiment
The recognition of homosexual rights is a controversial issue in many countries. Spain was the third country in the world (after Netherlands and Belgium) to introduce a law recognizing homosexual marriage and adoption of ...
