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Markets and linguistic diversity
The choice of language is a crucial decision for firms competing in cultural goods and media markets with a bilingual or multilingual consumer base. To the extent that multilingual consumers have preferences over the ...
The Coherence of the European Foreign Policy : A Real Barrier or an Academic Term?
The purpose of the present study is to break down, in a general and summarised way, the concept of the coherence of the European Foreign Policy, in order to analyse its meaning, its scope and its implications. This focus ...
Testing the entrepreneurial intention model on a two-country sample
This paper tests the Entrepreneurial Intention Model -which is adapted from the Theory of Planned Behavior- on a sample of 533 individuals from two quite different countries: one of them European (Spain) and the other South ...
La dimensió econòmica dels Jocs Olímpics
La dimensió econòmica dels Jocs Olímpics no és de fàcil mesurament. D'una banda, la globalització ha augmentat els ingressos dels Jocs que constitueixen la font de suport de sistemes esportius a tot el món. D'altra banda, ...
Accuracy vs. simplicity : a complex trade-off
Inductive learning aims at finding general rules that hold true in a database. Targeted learning seeks rules for the predictions of the value of a variable based on the values of others, as in the case of linear or ...
Grans esdeveniments i economia urbana : què poden aprendre unes ciutats olímpiques de les altres?
Les ciutats han mirat d'acollir grans esdeveniments esportius que facin la funció de catalitzadors del desenvolupament i la renovació urbana. En diverses ciutats la transformació urbana va ser accelerada i els conflictes ...
¿Cisne negro o pollo del montón? El déficit fiscal catalán en perspectiva
En esta nota se cuestiona la tesis de que el déficit fiscal de Catalunya es mucho mayor que el que registran otras regiones con niveles similares de renta relativa en los países de nuestro entorno. Cataluña encaja perfectamente ...
Shocking policy coefficients
This paper proposes an empirical framework to study the effects of a policy regime change defined as an unpredictable and permanent change in the policy parameters. In particular I show how to make conditional forecast and ...
Hausman tests for inefficient estimators : application to demand for health care service (revised)
The Hausman (1978) test is based on the vector of differences of two estimators. It is usually assumed that one of the estimators is fully efficient, since this simplifies calculation of the test statistic. However, this ...
La monoparentalitat suposa un risc pel rendiment escolar dels fills?
Els pares segueixen diferents estratègies per garantir un bon futur pels seus fills. Inverteixen en les seves habilitats, educació, normes i valors. Hi ha estratègies que impliquen temps, com escollir una escola o llegir ...
Fiscal sustainability across government tiers
This paper analyses how fiscal adjustment comes about when both central and sub-national governments are involved in consolidation. We test sustainability of public debt with a fiscal rule for both the federal and regional ...
Selection and educational attainment : why some children are left behind? Evidence from a middle-income country
We model schooling as a sequential process and examine why some children are left behind. We focus on the factors that explain selection at early stages of the education system. Our findings for Uruguay suggest that long-term ...
Una propuesta de evaluación de las externalidades de capital humano en la empresa
Empleando la encuesta de estructura salarial se plantea una propuesta de estimación de externalidades de capital humano intraempresa que permite relajar las restricciones introducidas por las especificaciones que la ...
Reconciling Hayek's and Keynes' views of recessions
Recessions often happen after periods of rapid accumulation of houses, consumer durables and business capital. This observation has led some economists, most notably Friedrich Hayek, to conclude that recessions often reflect ...
Narrow banking with modern depository institutions : Is there a reason to panic?
What would be the effect of imposing a 100 percent reserve requirement to depository institutions? This paper contends that reserves do not compete with loans on the asset side of bank's balance sheets. Thus, they only ...
