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Creativity and the City: Testing the Attenuation of Agglomeration Economies fo r the Creative Industries in Barcelona
The aim of this paper is to infer the spatial extent of agglomeration economies for the creative service industries (SCI) in Barcelona and its relationship with firms’ performance. Using data from Mercantile Register ...
Tourist Seasonality and the Role of Markets
This paper performs an analysis of tourism seasonality in Spain, typically from a market-side perspective. Three exercises are performed; firstly, seasonality is analysed through monthly concentration indexes and, in ...
The Catalan health budget rationing problem
The financial and economic crisis in Spain during recent years has induced public budget adjustments. The crisis has caused a great social impact due to the way the austerity measures have been implemented, affecting mainly ...
Brownian Signals: Information Quality, Quantity and Timing in Repeated Games
This paper examines different Brownian information structures over varying time intervals. We focus on the non-limit case, and on the trade-offs between information quality and quantity when making a decision whether to ...
Linking social heterogeneity and commodity price shocks to civil conflicts
Do exogenous economic shocks promote civil conflict directly? Do they affect all the societies alike? Using a large sample panel dataset, the current approach finds that commodity export prices shocks contribute to ...
Self-interest and Equity Concerns: A Behavioural Allocation Rule for Operational Problems
In many economic situations, individuals with different bargaining power must agree on how to divide a given resource. For instance, in the dictator game the proposer has all the bargaining power. In spite of it, the ...
A `solidarity' approach to the problem of sharing a network cost
A minimum cost spanning tree problem analyzes the way to efficiently connect individuals to a source when they are located at different places. Several rules have been defined to solve this problem. Our objective here is to ...
Education and tax morale
While the determinants of tax morale have been widely studied in the literature, surprisingly, the fundamental influence of education on tax morale has yet to be investigated. Given the insights in the psychological and ...
Attribution models and the Cooperative Game Theory
The current paper studies the attribution model used by Google Analytics. Precisely, we use the Cooperative Game Theory to propose a fair distribution of the revenues among the considered channels, in order to facilitate ...
International tax competition: A reappraisal
This paper investigates the interactions between tax policies at the international level (OECD countries). Both contemporaneous and time-delayed tax interactions are considered using Spatial Dynamic Panel Data model from ...
Frequency-Domain Estimation as an Alternative to Pre-Filtering External Cycles in Structural VAR Analysis
This paper shows that the frequency domain estimation of VAR models over a frequency band can be a good alternative to pre-filtering the data when a low-frequency cycle contaminates some of the variables. As stressed in ...
Measuring the influence of energy prices within the price formation mechanism
Environmental economics has proposed the taxation on energy as an effective way to mitigate the pollution caused by the production and use of energy based on fossil fuels. From a practical point of view, however, taxes on ...
The Reliability of Students’ Earnings Expectations
Eliciting expectation and introducing probabilistic questions into surveys have gained important interest. In this study, we focus on the reliability of students’ earnings expectations. To what extent is observed log ...
The strategic value of partial vertical integration
We investigate the strategic incentives for partial vertical integration, namely, partial ownership agreements between manufacturers and retailers, when retailers privately know their costs and engage in differentiated ...
Judgement and Ranking: Living with Hidden Bias
The complexity and subjectivity of the judgement task conceals the existence of biases that undermines the quality of the process. This paper presents a weighted aggregation function that attempts to reduce the influence ...
The causal factors of international inequality in CO2 emissions per capita: A regression-based inequality decomposition analysis
This paper uses the possibilities provided by the regression-based inequality decomposition (Fields, 2003) to explore the contribution of different explanatory factors to international inequality in CO2 emissions per capita. ...
Student earnings expectations: Heterogeneity or noise?
Students’ choices in education can only be based on expected outcomes. Econometric models that infer expectations based on ex post outcomes impose a rational structure of expectations on school performance and post-graduation ...
On Chinese stock markets: How have they evolved along time?
China is the largest emerging capital market with a unique setup: it issues simultaneously both (i) Class A shares addressed to Chinese domestic investors, and (ii) Class B Shares addressed to foreign investors. After Chinese ...
Do political regime transitions in Africa Matter for Citizens’ Health Status
Africa’s quest to achieving improved health status and meeting the Millennium Development Goals targets cannot be effectively achieved without examining the quality of leadership, transitions and regimes and how they impact ...
Empowering the vulnerable to be entrepreneurs: An empirical test on the efectiveness of the Ghana microfinance policy 2006
The study aims at testing the Ghana Microfinance Policy set up to support the vulnerable through access to credit. We resort to the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition to determine if there is positive discrimination in favor of ...
