Universitat Rovira i Virgili: Recent submissions
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Do we need or we want to share? The Role of Non Profit Sharing platforms
Tourism is an economic activity that must be rethought in order to respond to our fast society changing, as a result of its increasing mobility and interconnection needs, both of them facilitated by technological ...
Tourism seasonality worldwide
Tourism seasonality is generally seen as a problem for most of the main destinations in the world, particularly from the point of view of sustainability. Despite its importance, no reasonably homogeneous international ...
Gender differences in competition: gender equality and cost reduction policies
This paper investigates the implications of the unequal division of the domestic labor in men and women’s participation and effort incentives in competitive relations, in which the labor market is the main example. We found ...
The Joint Impact of Infrastructure and Institutions on Economic Growth
This paper examines the joint impact of infrastructure capital and institutional quality on economic growth using a large panel data set covering 120 countries and spanning the years 1980-2015. The empirical strategy ...
Group contest success function: The heterogeneous individuals case
This paper extends the axiomatic characterization of the group contest success function in Münster (2009) to groups with heterogeneous individuals (e.g., individuals with different skills or different cognitive capacities). ...
Decomposing the Changes in Water Intensity in a Mediterranean Region
This paper proposes a simple method for decomposing the temporal changes in water intensity into different driving factors. Specifically, total changes are split into three elements that clarify some of the hidden reasons ...
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 of the two most traditional indicators used to screen ...
A Behavioral Theory of Allocation in the Dictator Game
This paper attempts to explain the behavior observed in the dictator game without explicitly assuming a utility function. Alternatively, I consider the representative behavior of a society composed of heterogeneous individuals ...
Estimating individual effects and their spatial spillovers in linear panel data models: Public capital spillovers after all?
Individual-specific effects and their spatial spillovers are not generally identified in linear panel data models. In this paper we present identification conditions under the assumption that covariates are correlated with ...
A correlated random effects spatial Durbin model
We consider a correlated random effects specification of the spatial Durbin (dynamic) panel model with an error-term containing individual effects and their spatial spillovers. We derive the likelihood function of the model ...
Volatility Spillovers in a Long-Memory VAR: an Application to Energy Futures Returns
In this paper, we assess volatility spillovers across energy markets accounting for the persistence of the volatility series. To do so, we compute Diebold and Yilmaz (2015) measures of connectedness based on the forecast-error ...
Growth, heterogeneous technological interdependence,and spatial externalities: Theory and Evidence
We present a growth model with interdependencies in the heterogeneous technological progress, physical capital and stock of knowledge that yields a growth-initial equation that can be taken to the data. We then use data ...
Innovation and Geographical Spillovers: New Approaches and Empirical Evidence
This special issue concerns the generation of knowledge and geographical spillovers, and it includes a selection of papers that cover existent research gaps with respect to the role of space in the promotion of knowledge ...
Gender diversity, R&D teams and patents: An application to Spanish firms
Previous results show that gender diversity increases the probability that firms invest in R&D and engage in innovation. This paper explores the relationship between gender diversity of R&D departments and their capacity ...
Where New Creative Industries Locate? Evidence from French Departments
This paper focuses on the creative industries and the role played by the existing spatial distribution and agglomeration economies of these activities in relation to their entry decisions. Our main statistical source is ...
To acquire or not to acquire: Mergers and Acquisitions in the Software Industry
The aim of this paper is to analyse the impact of Mergers and Acquisitions on firm growth for Software firms located in Catalonia. We investigate firms which are targeting, or are themselves the target of an acquisition ...
Weak fairness and the Shapley value
The Shapley value (Shapley, 1953) has been axiomatically characterized from different points of view. Van den Brink (2001) proposes a characterization by means of efficiency, fairness and the null player property. In ...
Distributing the European structural and investment funds from a conflicting claims approach
In order to support economic development across all EU regions, € 351.8 billion -almost a third of the total EU budget- has been set aside for the Cohesion Policy during the period 2014-2020. The distribution of this budget ...
Eco-strategies and firm growth in European SMEs
This study investigates the effects of eco-strategies on firm performance in terms of sales growth in an extensive sample of 11,336 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) located in 28 European countries. Our empirical ...
Spatial Analysis of Clustering of Foreclosures in the Poorest-Quality Housing Urban Areas: Evidence from Catalan Cities
This paper uses data on housing stock owned by financial entities as a result of foreclosures to analyze (1) the spatial logic of Spain’s mortgage crisis in urban areas, and (2) the characteristics of the types of housing ...
