Universitat Rovira i Virgili: Enviaments recents
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Gender gap index in Spain by regions
Every year, the World Economic Forum publishes the World Gender Gap Report mainly based on the results of the Global Gender Gap Index (GGGI) computed by country. This index is made out of four subindexes to capture the ...
Spatial distribution of economic activities: an empirical approach usingself-organizing maps
The aim of this paper is to analyse the colocation patterns of industries and firms. We study the spatial distribution of firms from different industries at a microgeographic level and from this identify the main reasons ...
Lobbying of Firms by Voters
A firm may induce voters or elected politicians to support a policy it favors by suggesting that it is more likely to invest in a district whose voters or representatives support the policy. In equilibrium, no one vote may ...
El impacto diferencial del capital social sobre la salud de la población autóctona y los inmigrantes residentes en Cataluña
El fenómeno de la inmigración está transformando las sociedades receptoras. Un creciente número de estudios revela que la reciente inmigración en España es principalmente motivada por razones económicas y por tanto se trata ...
Relationship between technological progress, capital elasticity and emissions of industrial pollutants for the production sectors in Catalonia
As is known, the Kyoto Protocol proposes to reinforce national policies for emission reduction and, furthermore, to cooperate with other contracting parties. In this context, it would be necessary to assess these emissions, ...
Information Dispersion and Equilibrium Multiplicity
This paper studies the implications of correlation of private signals about the liquidation value of a risky asset in a variation of a standard noisy rational expectations model in which traders receive endowment shocks ...
The Analysis of Accounting Multipliers: The NAMEA Approach in the Case of Catalonia
The aim of this paper is the analysis of the Catalan economy (2001) with the use of a National Accounting Matrix with environmental accounts (NAMEA) for the Catalan economy with 2001 data. We will focus on the analysis of ...
Some Considerations Concerning Regulation and Competition in the Port Sector
The aim of this paper is to discuss the circumstances in which the process of competition between ports takes place in Spain − circumstances arising from the way the port system is currently set up and from the regulations ...
Risk Attitude And Wage Growth: Replication And Reconstruction
We replicate Shaw (1996) who found that individual wage growth is higher for individuals with greater preference for risk taking. Expanding her dataset with more American observations and data for Germany, Spain and Italy, ...
Mobility and Housing Satisfaction: An Empirical Analysis for Twelve EU Countries
Using panel data for twelve EU countries, we analyze the relationship between selfreported housing satisfaction and residential mobility. Our results indicate the existence of a positive link between the two variables and ...
Disentangling the Housing Satisfaction Puzzle: Does Homeownership Really Matter?
There is a general consensus that homeownership has beneficial effects for both individuals and society in many outcomes. However, research regarding the effect of homeownership on individuals' subjective well-being remains ...
Innovation sources and productivity in Catalonian firms: a quantile regression analysis
This paper explores the effects of two main sources of innovation - intramural and external R&D— on the productivity level in a sample of 3,267 Catalonian firms. The data set used is based on the official innovation survey ...
Migration and trade: Theory with an Application to the Eastern- Western European Integration
The remarkable increase in trade flows and in migratory flows of highly educated people are two important features of globalization of the last decades. This paper extends a two-country model of inter- and intraindustry trade ...
Decentralization and the Gains from Monitoring
This paper analyzes the delegation of contracting capacity in a moral hazard environment with sequential production in a project which involves a principal and two agents. The agent in charge of the nal production can ...
Does Internationalization Alter the R&D-Productivity Relationship?
R&D investment is an important driver of productivity gains. However, firms differ in their ability to appropiate the returns to their R&D efforts. This paper analyses to what extent firm's internationalization influences ...
Dead-End Jobs or Career Opportunities? Advancement opportunities in call centers
Employment in call centers has grown significantly throughout the world over the past 15 years. In debates about the quality of these new jobs, there are few studies that specifically address promotion opportunities. Using ...
(Optimal) Spatial Aggregation in the Determinants of Industrial Location
Empirical studies on the determinants of industrial location typically use variables measured at the available administrative level (municipalities, counties, etc.). However, this amounts to assuming that the effects ...
Scheduled Service Versus Personal Transportation: The Role of Distance
This paper presents a theoretical and empirical analysis of the relationship be- tween frequency of scheduled transportation services and their substitutability with personal transportation (using distance as a proxy). We ...
Environmental Kuznets Curves for Carbon Emissions: A Critical Survey
The empirical finding of an inverse U-shaped relationship between per capita income and pollution, the so-called Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC), suggests that as countries experience economic growth, environmental ...
Congested hubs
Hub congestion is a major problem and a relevant policy issue because it causes delays and many organizational problems at airports that end up implying unpleasant consequences both for air travelers and airlines. In a ...
