Universitat Rovira i Virgili: Enviaments recents
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When culture does (not) matter: role models and self-efficacy as drivers of entrepreneurial behavior
The correlation between facets of national culture and startup activities has received confirmation in empirical research while many mechanisms behind the correlation remain unclear. We study the interplay between the ...
What explains productivity differentials across spanish cities?
This paper estimates the determinants of productivity differentials across urban areas in Spain. To do so we resort to Spanish Social Security administrative data (MCVL) matched with workers’ fiscal information. We use ...
Banks, Lies and Bricks: The Determinants of Home Value Inflation in Spain during the Housing Boom
During the first decade of this century, Spain experienced the most important economic and housing boom in its recent history. This situation led the lending industry to dramatically expand through the mortgage market. The ...
On the (in)compatibility of rationality, monotonicity and consistency for cooperative games
On the domain of cooperative transferable utility games, we investigate if there are single valued solutions that reconcile rationality, consistency and monotonicity (with respect to the worth of the grand coalition) ...
Enjoying cooperative games: The R package GameTheory
This paper focuses on cooperative games with transferable utility. We propose the computation of two solutions, the Shapley value for n agents and the nucleolus with a maximum of four agents. The current approach is also ...
Is Self-employment a Way to Escape from Skill Mismatches?
During the last two decades, skill mismatches have become one of the most important issues of policy concern in the EU (European Commission, 2008). Hence, the literature has stressed the necessity to reduce skill mismatches. ...
The Effects of Corruption and Seigniorage on Growth and Inflation
In the last two decades, cases of corruption have been unveiled in different countries, raising public awareness and reinforcing a trend in which society expects more from their leaders. Our objective in this paper is to ...
The Determinants of Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries
We address the question of what determines entrepreneurship in developing countries. In particular, because of the influence that this may have on the design of entrepreneurship policies, our main concern is whether the ...
Investigating the impact of small versus large firms on economic performance of countries and industries
Following earlier work by Audretsch et al. (2002), we assume that an optimal size-class structure exists, in terms of achieving maximal economic growth rates. Such an optimal structure is likely to exist as economies need ...
Agglomeration vs. dispersion of economic activities in the districts of Paris
The spatial distribution of economic activity has often been analysed for wide geographical areas such as regions or metropolitan areas, but it has rarely been subject to microanalysis, especially outside the U.S. In this ...
Idiosyncratic Volatility Puzzle: Influence of Macro-Finance Factors
In this paper, we scrutinize the cross-sectional relation between idiosyncratic volatility and stock returns. As a novelty, the idiosyncratic volatility is obtained by conditioning upon macro-finance factors as well as upon ...
Identifying strategies for mitigating the global warming impact of the EU-25 economy using a multi-objective input-output approach
Global warming mitigation has recently become a priority worldwide. A large body of literature dealing with energy related problems has focused on reducing greenhouse gases emissions at an engineering scale. In contrast, ...
Generalized three-sided assignment markets: consistency and the core
A class of three-sided markets (and games) is considered, where value is generated by pairs or triplets of agents belonging to different sectors, as well as by individuals. For these markets we analyze the situation that ...
Gathering support from rivals: the two rivals case
Two voters must choose between two alternatives. Voters vote in a fixed linear order. If there is not unanimity for any alternative, the procedure is repeated. At every stage, each voter prefers the same alternative to the ...
Risk-Return Trade-Off for European Stock Markets
This paper adopts dynamic factor models with macro-finance predictors to test the intertemporal risk-return relation for 13 European stock markets. We identify country specific, euro area, and global macro-finance factors ...
Platform pricing and consumer foresight: The case of airports
Airports have become platforms that derive revenues from both aeronautical and commercial activities. The demand for these services is characterized by a one-way complementarity in that only air travelers can purchase retail ...
Innovation and horizontal mergers in a vertically related industry
This paper analyzes the effects of horizontal mergers on innovation and consumer welfare in a vertically related industry context, in which downstream firms compete for customers with a differentiated final good and can ...
World Polarization in carbon emissions, potential conflict and groups: an updated revision
Typically, conflicts in world environmental negotiations are related, amongst other aspects, to the level of polarization of the countries in groups with conflicting interests. Given the predictable relationship between ...
Conflicting claims problem associated with cost sharing of a network
A minimum cost spanning tree (mcst) problem analyzes the way to efficiently connect individuals to a source when they are located at different places. Once the efficient tree is obtained, the question on how allocating the ...
A territorial approach to R&D subsidies: Empirical evidence for Catalonian firms
Using a database of 2,263 responses to R&D public calls in Catalonia, during the period 2007–2010, this paper proceeds to analyse the potential interaction of the territorial and policy dimensions with the propensity to ...
