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Measurement of social participation and its place in social capital theory
The concept of social capital has become very popular but its definition and measurement are still rather unclear. We frame our study in one of its components, social participation. In this article we develop an optimal ...
On the complexity of rationalizing behavior
We study the complexity of rationalizing choice behavior. We do so by analyzing two polar cases, and a number of intermediate ones. In our most structured case, that is where choice behavior is defined in universal choice ...
Neologismes documentats en textos escrits i orals en català (2017)
L’Observatori de Neologia és un projecte d’investigació que pretén analitzar el fenomen de l’aparició de paraules noves en l’ús a través de textos escrits i orals de llengua general en català i en castellà. En aquest volum ...
Bilingual Dictionary Extraction Tools
This document describes methods developed within task WP5.2. to automatically extract bilingual dictionaries from statistical machine translation (SMT) phrase tables, that were automatically generated from sentence aligned ...
Alternative measurement procedures and models for Political Efficacy
Through the years many different approaches to measure political efficacy have been proposed. Alternatives were proposed based on different numbers of items, alternative items, alternative measurement models and alternative ...
AI and digital technology: gender gaps in higher education
This article examines gender gaps in higher education in Spain from 1985 to 2023 in the context of technological advancements, particularly digitalization and artificial intelligence (AI). We identify significant disparities, ...
Cash transfers and fertility: How the introduction and cancellation of a child benefit affected births and abortions
We study the effects of a universal child benefit on fertility, identifying separately the effects driven by conceptions and abortions. We focus on a generous lump-sum maternity allowance that was introduced in Spain in ...
Capital cities of federations. On the way to analysing the normative base of their asymmetrical status
Federal Capitals often have special statutes. Compared with member states, they often enjoy a lower degree of self-government and a lesser share in the governing of the federation. Why do actors choose such devices, and ...
A reassessment of family reunification in Europe. The case of Senegalese couples
Contemporary policy makers in most European destination countriesexpress a great concern about reunification of migrants’ families. Newrestrictions multiply in almost all countries, on the grounds thatmigrants would take ...
Breaking the spell with credit-easing: self-confirming credit crises in competitive search economies
We show that credit crises can be Self-Confirming Equilibria (SCE), which provides a new rationale for policy interventions like, for example, the FRB’s TALF credit-easing program in 2009.We introduce SCE in competitive ...
La Ricarda: al final de la pista
La Ricarda. Al final de la pista, es un proyecto de la serie “Espacios heridos” . El concepto espacio herido, se refiere a las secuelas que deja el paso del tiempo sobre los espacios. El impacto del progreso sobre los ...
Embodied technical change and the fluctuations of wages and unemployment
The paper shows that a matching model where technological change is partially embodied in the job match is successful in explaining the variability of unemployment and vacancies. If we incorporate long-term wage contracts ...
Intellectual property rights and efficient firm organization
I provide a justification of intellectual property rights as a source of static efficiency gains in manufacturing, rather than dynamic benefits from greater innovation. I develop a property-rights model of a supply ...
Architecture and design of the platform
This document aims to establish the requirements and the technological basis and design of the PANACEA platform. These are the main goals of the document: a) Survey the different technological approaches that can be used ...
Are managers paid for market power?
To answer the question whether managers are paid for market power, we propose a theory of executive compensation in an economy where firms have market power, and the market for managers is competitive. We identify two ...
