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A dual characterization of incentive efficiency
We show that incentive efficient allocations in economies with adverse selection and moral hazard can be determined as optimal solutions to a linear programming problem and we use duality theory to obtain a complete ...
Estereotipos de género en los presentadores de los informativos
En base a la relevancia que los presentadores de informativos tienen en el medio y en la audiencia, este trabajo estudia los estereotipos de género en los presentadores de los espacios informativos de TV de las principales ...
Platform design and rent extraction
Altres ajuts: acords transformatius de la UAB
Classes socials i transició a la vida adulta a Espanya
Aquest treball va rebre finançament de la Fundació "la Caixa" a través del projecte "Interconnected inequalities through the life course in Spain" (INTERINEQ, SR22-00089) i del Departament de Recerca i Universitats de la ...
Incidencia de la accesibilidad, a través de la red viaria, en la movilidad habitual por trabajo
Comunicació presentada al Congrés Internacional de Joves Investigadors en Demografia, en el marc de la XXV Conferència Internacional de Població, IUSSP. Sessió 4: "Problemàtiques en les societats occidentals contemporànies". ...
Cruise activity and pollution : the case of Barcelona
One of the main causes of mortality worldwide is air pollution. To tackle this problem, local, regional and national governments have implemented policies to reduce emissions from industrial and on-road sources. However, ...
Paths to stability for matching markets with couples
We study two-sided matching markets with couples and show that for a natural preference domain for couples, the domain of weakly responsive preferences, stable outcomes can always be reached by means of decentralized ...
A critical analysis of dimensions and curve fitting practice in economics
When dealing with sustainability we are concerned with the biophysical as well as the monetary aspects of economic and ecological interactions. This multidimensional approach requires that special attention is given to ...
Default cycles
Recessions are often accompanied by spikes of corporate default and prolonged declines of business credit. This paper argues that credit and default cycles are the outcomes of variations in self-fulfilling beliefs about ...
Vivienda y población de nacionalidad extranjera en Barcelona : una aproximación demográfica
A la ciutat de Barcelona, el creixement de les migracions internacionals i, en conseqüència, de la població de nacionalitat estrangera resident, ha comportat la propagació del fenomen migratori en el conjunt de la ciutat, ...
Las parejas de familias reconstituidas. Una caracterización desde la perspectiva de genero
El objetivo del artículo es presentar un análisis del perfil sociodemográfico de las parejas de núcleos familiares reconstituidos. Se explora si ese perfil es más heterogámico que el de las parejas no reconstituidas y si ...
Homeownership and social inequality in Spain
High homeownership rates in Spain are not the result of tradition; they are the product of the rapid social and economic changes that took place during the second half of the twentieth century. Like young people putting ...
Polítiques de regulació de la mà d'obra a l'Europa dels noranta. El cas de Catalunya
El treball que presentem és el resultat d'una investigació sobre Polítiques de regulació de la mà d'obra. Aquesta investigació, patrocinada per la Fundació Jaume Bofill, s'inscriu en la convocatòria de beques titulada ...
Entrepreneurial intention, cognitive social capital and culture : empirical anaylisis for Spain and Taiwan
The main purpose of this paper is building a research model to integrate the socioeconomic concept of social capital within intentional models of new firm creation. Nevertheless, some researchers have found cultural ...
Unemployment (fears) and deflationary spirals
The interaction of incomplete markets and sticky nominal wages is shown to magnify business cycles even though these two features - in isolation - dampen them. During recessions, fears of unemployment stir up precautionary ...
The optimal behaviour of firms facing stochastic costs
This paper aims at assessing the optimal behavior of a firm facing stochastic costs of production. In an imperfectly competitive setting, we evaluate to what extent a firm may decide to locate part of its production in ...
