Universitat Rovira i Virgili: Enviaments recents
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Locations and Relocations:Modelling, Determinants, and Interrelations
Empirical studies on industrial location do not typically distinguish between new and relocated establishments. This paper addresses this shortcoming using data on the frequency of these events in municipalities of the ...
Agglomeration and location: a nonparametric approach
The aim of this article is to assess the effects of several territorial characteristics, specifically agglomeration economies, on industrial location processes in the Spanish region of Catalonia. Theoretically, the level ...
A Multisectorial model of prices: the SAM approach
Social Accounting Matrices (SAM) are normally used to analyse the income generation process. They are also useful, however, for analysing the cost transmission and price formation mechanisms. For price contributions, ...
Political institutions and the development of telecommunications
It has traditionally been argued that the development of telecommunications infrastructure is dependent on the quality of countries' political institutions. We estimate the effect of political institutions on the diffusion ...
Industrial location at a local level: some comments about the territorial level of the analysis
This paper contributes to the existing literature on industrial location by discussing some issues regarding the territorial levels that have been used in location analysis. We analyse which could be the advantages and ...
Market Competition and Lower Tier Incentives
The relationship between competition and performance-related pay has been analysed in single-principal-single-agent models. While this approach yields good predictions for managerial pay schemes, the predictions fail to ...
New business formation and employment growth: some evidence for the Spanish manufacturing industry
This paper explores the effects of new business formation on employment growth in Spanish manufacturing industries. New firms are believed to make an important contribution to economic growth but the extent of this ...
Infraestructures de Transport i Localització Industrial. Evidència Empírica per a Catalunya
El propòsit d'aquest treball és analitzar fins a quin punt la millora en l'accessibilitat dels municipis a la xarxa viària d'alta capacitat ha tingut efectes positius en la creació d'establiments industrials. En concret, ...
Would Fiscal Authorities in the EMU prefer to coordinate?
This article studies whether fiscal authorities would prefer to operate like in the current EMU or to coordinate according to the theoretical literature. The EMU approach will lead to higher volatility of interest rates, ...
Economic impacts of alternative water policy scenarios in the Spanish production system: an input-output analysis
The objective of this paper is to analyse the economic impacts of alternative water policies implemented in the Spanish production system. The methodology uses two versions of the input-output price model: a competitive ...
Firm Size and Geographical Aggregation: An Empirical Appraisal in Industrial Location
This paper assesses empirically the importance of size discrimination and disaggregate data for deciding where to locate a start-up concern. We compare three econometric specifications using Catalan data: a multinomial ...
Trade disclosure and price dispersion
This paper determines the effects of post-trade opaqueness on market performance. We find that the degree of market transparency has important effects on market equilibria. In particular, we show that dealers operating in ...
The Determinants of Entry are not Independent of Start-up Size: Some evidence from Spanish manufacturing
In this paper we explore the determinants of firm start-up size of Spanish manufacturing industries. The industries' barriers to entry affect the ability of potential entrants to enter the markets and the size range at ...
Should fiscal authorities cooperate in a monetary union with public deficit targets?
In this paper we analyse the setting of optimal policies in a monetary union with one monetary authority and various fiscal authorities that have a public deficit target. We will show that fiscal cooperation among the ...
Entradas y salidas de empresas: un contraste de las hipótesis de independencia, simetría y simultaneidad
En este trabajo se analiza una vía alternativa en el debate de la convergencia regional en España: el estudio de la dinámica industrial de sus Comunidades Autónomas. Para ello se analizan los flujos de entrada y salida de ...
A territorial approach to firm entry: The effect of city size
This paper concerns the effects of territorial factors on the processes involved in the creation of manufacturing firms in Spanish cities. Most contributions have focused on regional factors rather than urban ones. Here ...
Delegation and information sharing in oligopoly
Information sharing in oligopoly has been analyzed by assuming that firms behave as a sole economic agent. In this paper I assume that ownership and management are separated. Managers are allowed to falsely report their ...
Firm Size and Short-Term Dynamics in Aggregate Entry and Exit
Much of the research on industry dynamics focuses on the interdependence between the sectorial rates of entry and exit. This paper argues that the size of firms and the reaction-adjustment period are important conditions ...
Security prices and market transparency: the role of prior information
This paper analyzes the role of traders' priors (proper versus improper) on the implications of market transparency by comparing a pre-trade transparent market with an opaque market in a set-up based on Madhavan (1996). ...
External sources of innovation and industry-university interaction:evidence from Spanish firms
This paper is about the firm innovation process and the cooperation of the innovative firms with other firms and public institutions. A special attention is paid to the cooperation with universities. We use the Technological ...
