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A Political Agency Model of Coattail Voting
In this paper, I provide a formal justi cation for a well-established coattail effect, when a popular candidate at one branch of government attracts votes to candidates from the same political party for other branches of ...
Repeated Interaction and the Revelation of the Monitor's Type: A Principal-Monitor-Agent Problem
This paper studies a dynamic principal-monitor-agent relation where a strategic principal delegates the task of monitoring the effort of a strategic agent to a third party. The latter we call the monitor, whose type is ...
Are small firms more sensitive to financial variables?
This paper analyses the impact of different sources of finance on the growth of firms. sing panel data from Spanish manufacturing firms for the period 2000-2006, we investigate the effects of internal and external finances ...
On the automatic application of inequality indexes in the analysis of the international distribution of environmental indicators
In recent years traditional inequality measures have been used to quite a considerable extent to examine the international distribution of environmental indicators. One of its main characteristics is that each one assigns ...
Work, risk and health: differences between immigrants and natives in Spain
We analyze the impact of working and contractual conditions, particularly exposure to job risks, on the probability of acquiring a disability. We postulate a model in which this impact is mediated by the choice of occupation, ...
Linear Aggregation In The Social Accounting Matrix Framework
In economic literature, information deficiencies and computational complexities have traditionally been solved through the aggregation of agents and institutions. In inputoutput modelling, researchers have been interested ...
Repeated Agenda Setting and the Unanimous Approval of Bad Policies
This paper addresses the puzzle of why legislation, even highly inefficient legislation, may pass with overwhelming majorities. We model a egislature in which the same agenda setter serves for two periods, showing how he ...
Endogenous Mergers of Complements with Mixed Bundling
This paper studies endogenous mergers of complements with mixed bundling, by allowing both for joint and separate consumption. After merger, partner fi rms decrease the price of the bundled system. Besides, when markets ...
Public and private learning from prices, strategic substitutability and complementarity, and equilibrium multiplicity
We study a general static noisy rational expectations model where investors have private information about asset payoffs, with common and private components, and about their own exposure to an aggregate risk factor, and ...
Structural decomposition analysis and input-output subsystems: An application to Spanish CO2 emissions
Analysis of gas emissions by the input-output subsystem approach provides detailed insight into pollution generation in an economy. Structural decomposition analysis, on the other hand, identifies the factors behind the ...
Sociedades cooperativas: mercantilidad y operaciones con terceros. Un comentario
En este trabajo se hace referencia a la posible consideración de las sociedades cooperativas como sociedades mercantiles, cumpliéndose determinadas circunstancias, y ello sin pérdida de sus características específicas en ...
¿Obtienen las multinacionales mayores rendimientos de sus actividades de I+D?
En este estudio se analiza en qué medida el carácter multinacional de las empresas (definido en términos de su participación accionarial) influye en la relación endógena entre investigación y desarrollo (I+D) y productividad. ...
On the effect of the geographical scope of agglomeration economies on firm location
This article analyses how agglomeration economies shaped the location decisions of new manufacturing start-ups in Catalan municipalities in 2001-2005. We estimate whether the locations of new firms are spatially autocorrelated ...
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 ...
Sincere Lobby Formation
This paper analyzes endogenous lobbying over a unidimensional policy issue. Individuals differ in policy preferences and decide either to join one of two opposite interest lobbies or not to take part in lobbying activities. ...
Product differentiation, competitive pressure and the effects of innovation on the success and survivability of firms in oligopoly markets
In a recent paper Tishler and Milstein (2009) fi…nd that increased competition may increase aggregate R&D spending while market output decreases. Therefore, they obtain the surprising result that R&D spending is excessive ...
Welfare Maximizing Contest Success Functions when the Planner Cannot Commit
We analyze how a contest organizer chooses optimally the winner when the contestants' efforts are already exerted and commitment to the use of a given contest success function is not possible. We de…ne the notion of ...
Modelling Interbank Relations during the International Financial Crisis
This paper examines the effects of the current financial crisis on the correlations of four international banking stocks. We find that in the beginning of the crisis banks generally show a transition to a higher correlation ...
Do Legal Immigrants and Natives Compete in the Labour Market? Evidence from Catalonia
The precondition for labour-market competition between immigrants and natives is that both are willing to accept jobs that do not differ in quality. To test this hypothesis, in this paper we compare the working conditions ...
The size of the underground economy in Germany: A correction of the record and new evidence from the Modified-Cash-deposit-Ratio approach
Based on the Ahumada et al. (2007, Review of Income and Wealth) critique we revise existing estimates of the size of the German underground economy. Among other things, it turns out that most of these estimates are untenable ...
