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Crypto-assets emerging regulations in the European Union framework
Treball de recerca del Màster d'Integració Europea seleccionat per ser publicat.
Scottish Masculinity and the Failure of the Utopian Tower Block in David Greig's Play The Architect and Andrew O'Hagan's Novel Our Fathers
The post-WWII reconstruction of British cities was partly based, as regards public housing, on a mixture of Socialist Utopian ideals and the example of Le Corbusier's Unité d'Habitation. In Scotland, this process was also ...
Coexistence of Paradigms? Residential Segregation in Spain after Mass Migration (2000-2010)
During the first decade of the 21st Century Spain experienced one of the most remarkable episodes of international migration worldwide. Following the numerical increase and diversification of the inflows, the study of ...
Why do creative industries cluster? An analysis of the determinants of clustering of creative industries
Creative industries tend to concentrate mainly around large- and medium-sized cities, forming creative local production systems. The text analyses the forces behind clustering of creative industries to provide the first ...
A marxian model of the breakdown of capitalism
This paper sets out a Marxian model that is based on the one by Stephen Marglin with one sector and continuous substitution. It is extended by adding technical progress and land as a factor of production. It is then shown ...
Higher education and economic development : can public funding restrain the returns from tertiary education?
This paper examines whether the contribution of tertiary education toeconomic growth and income per capita depends on the structure of publiceducation budgets. The analysis resorts to a panel of 41 countries over theperiod ...
Employment effects of service offshoring : evidence from matched firms
This paper studies the effects of service offshoring on the level and skill composition of domestic employment, using a rich data set of Italian firms and propensity score matching techniques. The results show that service ...
Leveraging the Sydney Olympics for tourism
Paper presented at the 2000 seminar of the International Chair in Olympism. Key issues of the seminar included references to the concern for legacy in terms of tourism, benefits and challenges of the Olympic Games and ...
Conjucture and migration in the Metropolitan region of Barcelona
En les societats "desenvolupades" les migracions són uns dels indicadors més sensibles a la conjuntura -les condiciones econòmiques i socials d'un moment concret-. Podem considerar les migracions com una resposta demogràfica ...
Valoración social del incremento de la violencia doméstica
L'article formará part del llibre: Guillermo Barrios & Pilar Rivas (eds). Violencia de Género: Perspectiva Multidisciplinaria y Práctica Forense. Editorial Aranzadi.
La Brecha entre EEUU y la "Vieja Europa"
El distanciamiento que hoy observamos entre las actitudes de los Estados Unidos (EEUU) y Francia frente a temas como el uso de la fuerza y el derecho internacional, tiene un punto álgido en el debate que giró en torno a ...
Explaining High Economic Growth in Small Tourism Countries with a Dynamic General Equilibrium Model
This paper shows that tourism specialisation can help to explain the observed high growth rates of small countries. For this purpose, two models of growth and trade are constructed to represent the trade relations between ...
Mejora del medio ambiente y nivel de desarrollo : elementos explicativos de las diferentes opciones en los programas de desarrollo rural (2007-2013) de la Unión Europea
Los programas de desarrollo rural del actual período de programación (2007-13) se han estructurado en 4 ejes. El eje 2 correspondiente a la Mejora del medio ambiente y del entorno rural es, con casi la mitad de los recursos ...
Introducing an Austrian backpack in Spain
In an overlapping generations economy with incomplete insurance markets, the introduction of an employment fund (akin to the one introduced in Austria in 2003, also known as 'Austrian backpack') can enhance production ...
Bribes for faster delivery
The paper models the practice of charging bribes for faster delivery of essential services in third world countries. It then examines the possibility of curbing corruption by supervision, and secondly, by introducing ...
Eventos familiares y salud en España : mecanismos de selección y causalidad
L'article explora els mecanismes de selecció i de causalitat que s'estableixen en la relació entre els principals esdeveniments familiars (inici i final de la convivència en parella, i naixement d'un fill) i la salut ...
