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The causal relationship between Individual's choice behavior and self-reported satisfaction : the case of residential mobility in the EU
One of the most persistent and lasting debates in economic research refers to whether the answers to subjective questions can be used to explain individuals' economic behavior. Using panel data for twelve EU countries, in ...
Observability and overcoming coordination failure in organizations
Many organizations suffer poor performance because its members fail to coordinate on efficient patterns of behavior. In previous research, we have shown that financial incentives can be used to find a way out of such ...
Democracy, intermediation, and voting in Spain: some new findings from in-depth and logitudinal data (vol. 1)
The findings reported in this monograph (in two parts, published as WP 351 and WP 352) are based upon a broad-based, multi-method analysis of Spanish politics and society, including five national surveys conducted over ...
Resource-monotonicity for house allocation problems
We study a simple model of assigning indivisible objects (e.g., houses, jobs, offices, etc.) to agents. Each agent receives at most one object and monetary compensations are not possible. We completely describe all rules ...
Network-constrained risk sharing in village economies
In this paper I investigate mutual insurance arrangements restricted on a social network. My approach solves for Pareto-optimal sharing rules in a situation where exchanges are limited within a given social network. I ...
L'activitat econòmica de la població de nacionalitat estrangera al Regne Unit
Aquest article forma part de la recerca duta a terme en el marc del màster en Social Research Methods and Statistics, realitzat al Cathie Marsh Centre for Census and Survey Research a la University of Manchester durant el ...
Transición a la vida adulta en España : una comparación histórica y regional
Aquest treball ha estat presentat en el Seminar on Early Adulthood in Time and Space: Multidimensional and Multilevel Perspectives. IUSSP; INED. París (França), 26 de juny de 2008.
Exploring educational mobility in Europe
This paper is concerned with the investigation of the intergenerational mobility of education in several European countries and its changes across birth cohorts (1940-1980) using a new mobility index that considers the ...
Consumers' behavior and the Bertrand paradox : an ACE approach
We analyze the classical Bertrand model when consumers exhibit some strategic behavior in deciding from which seller they will buy. We use two related but different tools. Both consider a probabilistic learning (or ...
Sequencing games without initial order
In this note we study uncertainty sequencing situations, i.e., 1-machine sequencing situations in which no initial order is specified. We associate cooperative games with these sequencing situations, study their core, and ...
Disabled people families. Some preliminary results for the basque country from the disabilities, deficiencies and health survey of 1999
The main objective of this work has been to analyze the relationship between disabled people and their nearest environments, the family and the household. It is considered that the absolute autonomy of any person from their ...
Urbanización y consumo : la ingesta de proteínas animales en Barcelona durante los siglos XIX y XX
Los procesos de urbanización en la Europa occidental han sido analizados desde diversas perspectivas. En unos casos, como resultado de un diverso conjunto de cambios económicos, políticos y sociales y en otros, como causa ...
Does land titling matter? : The role of land property rights in the war on illicit crops in Colombia
This paper analyzes the role of formalization of land property rights in the war against illicit crops in Colombia. We argue that as a consequence of the increase of state presence and visibility during the period of 2000 ...
Consumption heterogenity over the business cycle
We study consumption heterogeneity over the business cycle. Using household panel data from 1984 to 2010 in the US we find that the welfare cost of the business cycle is non-negligible, once agents heterogeneity is taken ...
Invoking a cartesian product structure on social states : new resolutions of Sen's and Gibbard's impossibility theorems
The purpose of this article is to introduce a Cartesian product structure into the social choice theoretical framework and to examine if new possibility results to Gibbard's and Sen's paradoxes can be developed thanks to ...
Conceptos y contexto. En torno al desarrollo de la comparación en ciencia política
El autor, profesor titular emérito de Ciencia Política de la Universidad de Heidelberg, revisa el desarrollo de la ciencia política contemporánea en el área del gobierno comparado y debate sus métodos y alcances de ...
Fiscal foresight and the effects of government spending
We study the effects of government spending by using a structural, large dimensional, dynamic factor model. We find that the government spending shock is non-fundamental for the variables commonly used in the structural ...
Dynamic stackelberg game with risk-averse players : optimal risk-sharing under asymmetric information
The objective of this paper is to clarify the interactive nature of the leader-follower relationship when both players are endogenously risk-averse. The analysis is placed in the context of a dynamic closed-loop Stackelberg ...
