Articles publicats Departament d'Economia: Enviaments recents
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Quantitative Effects of Employment Protection in OECD Labor Markets
This paper explores the quantitative role played by Employment Protection Legislation over employment and on-the-job training in the presence of dual labor markets across OECD economies. We extend the search and matching ...
Using Financial and Sustainability Ratios to Map Sectors: An Approach With Compositional Data
The article aims to visualize in a single graph Spanish fish and meat processing companies with respect to solvency, energy, waste and water intensity and gender employment gap. These financial, environmental, and social ...
Forest Management for Water Stress Mitigation under Climate Change: An Economy-Wide Approach
Given the current context of water scarcity and climatic change, achieving a balance between water supply and demand will prove challenging without the implementation of supply-side measures. An alternative, nature-based ...
Effects of Public Healthcare Budget Cuts on Life Satisfaction in Spain
This paper investigates the impact the changes in the health care budget had on the reported levels of satisfaction in Spain during the recent economic crisis. We match individual-level data from six different waves of the ...
Contaminants of emerging concern: A review of biological and economic principles to guide water management policies
Awareness regarding water contamination has increased recently due to the emergence of a multitude of pollutants that pose a high risk to ecosystems and human health. The huge number and heterogeneity of contaminants of ...
Green public procurement on EU directive 2014/24: adoption effects of mandatory and voluntary transposition
Regulation is one of the most crucial factors for implementing Green Public Procurement (GPP). This study provides the first multi-country causal analysis of GPP adoption using contract-level data, leveraging the transposition ...
Blood-based biomarkers in centenarians and non-centenarians: a matched, population-based retrospective cohort study using primary care records in Catalonia, Spain
The global increase in life expectancy has sparked growing interest in the factors that contribute to exceptional longevity. Between 1990 and 2015, the number of centenarians worldwide more than quadrupled. This study aimed ...
Assessing excess mortality and heat-attributable risk during the summer of 2022 in Catalonia, Spain: a Bayesian spatiotemporal analysis
In 2022, excess mortality in Spain was the third highest on record, surpassed only by 2020 and 2015. However, of that excess only 23% has been directly attributed to extreme heat. The problem with this figure is that the ...
The dynamics of fiscal policy: Insights from China's macroeconomic indicators
This paper examines the impact of China’s fiscal policy on macroeconomic performance during the 2008–2009 global financial crisis, focusing on whether government spending affected output and inflation dynamics. Using monthly ...
Entrepreneurial motivational profiles among university students: The role of universities in fostering entrepreneurship
In an increasingly globalized world, local and sustainable entrepreneurial initiatives are gaining importance as factors in local economic and social development. If education plays an essential role in students' entrepreneurial ...
Network-based assessment of multi-scale resilience in the water-energy-land-food nexus: a case study in the Colombian Caribbean
Global change threatens socio-ecological systems, particularly in regions with rapid land use changes and competing demands for water, energy, and food. However, the impact of land use changes on the resilience of ...
Classification of wildfires in relation to land cover types and associated variables by applying cluster analysis: a case study in the Iberian Peninsula
Wildfires are a major environmental problem that have both economic and ecological impacts. Wildfires typically spread in a particular pattern, determined by factors such as the elements on the ground that catch fire or ...
Burglaries Constellations: A New Approach to Deal with Burglaries’ Repeat Patterns in Heterogeneous Environments
Spatiotemporal patterns of repeat victimization in residential burglaries provide valuable insights for predictive applications, though they display increased complexity in large, heterogeneous environments. When the assumed ...
Decomposing hospitality distribution channel market share
This article investigates the evolution and current state of hospitality distribution by analyzing market share from various distribution channels using real data from hospitality management systems. The study aims to ...
The role of online reviews in the choice of restaurants: perceptions of domestic guests in Croatia
User-generated reviews are an important information source for both restaurateurs and guests. While their impact has been widely studied in hospitality, most research focuses on hotels or general consumer behavior, with ...
Precios hoteleros: ¿existen diferencias entre países emisores?
El objetivo de este artículo es analizar si existen diferencias de preciosentre países por contratar el mismo establecimiento hotelero. Los resulta-dos obtenidos muestran diferencias importantes, que pueden llegar al 44por ...
Una aproximación a los diferentes precios en el sector hotelero: el ejemplo de la Costa Brava Sur
This paper analyses the different prices that tourist spay in the lodgement sector of sunand beach segment, using the example of some towns in Costa Brava. On one hand, diffe-rences between booking directly to the hotel ...
¿Han subido los precios de los productos de consumo habitual con el euro?: la experiencia de una ciudad mediana
El objetivo de este artículo es conocer la evolución de los precios de venta al públicode productos de consumo habitual (alimentación, droguería, y higiene y belleza personal) enuna ciudad mediana, desde meses antes ...
L'impacte de l'euro en els preus dels productes de consum habituals
L’objectiu d’aquest article és analitzar l’impacte de l’euro en els preus de venda al públic dels productes de consum habitual (alimentació, drogueria i higiene i bellesa personal) en establiments comercials, mesos abans ...
