Articles publicats Departament d'Economia: Envíos recientes
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Assessing Higher Education Policy in Brazil: A Mixed Oligopoly Approach
Higher education is increasingly provided by both public and private universities, in particular in the developing world. Considering a mixed oligopoly setting and inspired by the Brazilian context, we explore the relative ...
Análisis de Sentimiento de la agenda de los partidos políticos españoles en Twitter durante la Moción de Censura de 2018: un enfoque de datos composicionales
In this article we provide an analysis of the sentiment of the political parties' discussion on Twitter, about the 2018 motion of no confidence to the Spanish government. In particular, we extracted and analyzed 2824 tweets ...
La segregación y la igualdad de género en la educación en España: un análisis jurídico descriptivo = Segregation and Gender Equality in Education in Spain: a Descriptive Legal Analysis
The general objective of this research is based on analyzing the Spanish legal and jurisprudential system in educational matters from a gender perspective. Specifically, the problem of segregation in the classrooms and the ...
Perspectivas del derecho laboral en la sucesión empresarial en España = Perspectives of the Labor Law in the Business Succession in Spain
The objective of this work is based on analyzing the succession of companies. In this work an analysis of the aspects related to this problematic of studio is realized. The research is descriptive, comprehensive ...
Saved by wealth? Income, wealth, and self-perceived health in Spain during the financial crisis
We evaluate the association between the variations in income and wealth, (both aggregate and split between real estate and financial wealth), and self-perceived health in Spain using a longitudinal sample of individuals ...
Digital Transformation for Business Model Innovation in Higher Education: Overcoming the Tensions
The higher education sector is in the eye of the hurricane of the digital revolution, immersed as it is in an ongoing digital transformation (DT) process that is expected to result in significant changes in the current ...
Cruise tourism: a hedonic pricing approach
The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect on price of different cruise industry characteristics from the point of view of actual prices. The analysis is carried out from the supply side but taking into account ...
Socio-ecological transition in a Mediterranean agroecosystem: What energy flows tell us about agricultural landscapes ruled by landlords, peasants and tourism (Mallorca, 1860-1956-2012)
Using several energy returns on investment indicators (multi-EROI), this article analyses the socioecological transition of an agroecosystem in the western Mediterranean on the island of Mallorca (Spain) over a period of ...
How the economic recession has changed the likelihood of reporting poor self-rated health in Spain
Between 2006 and 2011 self-rated health (SRH) (the subjective report of an individual’s health status) actually improved in Spain despite its being in the grips of a serious economic recession. This study examines whether ...
The Influence of Imports and Exports on the Evolution of Greenhouse Gas Emissions: The Case for the European Union
Part of a country’s emissions are caused by producing goods for export to other countries, while a country’s own needs also generate emissions in other parts of the world that are associated with the products they import. ...
The relationship between asset and capital structure: a compositional approach with panel vector autoregressive models
The companies' investment and financing policies are dynamically interrelated and there is no general consensus about the direction of this relationship. There are theoretical arguments and empirical evidence supporting ...
Movilidad intergeneracional y emparejamiento selectivo en España
This paper examines the role of assortative mating in the intergenerational economic mobility in Spain. Sons and daughters usually marry individuals with similar characteristics, which may lower mobility. Our empirical ...
Indicadores contextuales para evaluar los determinantes sociales de la salud y la crisis económica española = Contextual indicators to assess social determinants of health and the Spanish economic recession
Objective To provide indicators to assess the impact on health, its social determinants and health inequalities from a social context and the recent economic recession in Spain and its autonomous regions. Methods Based ...
Sociodemographic Factors and Clinical Conditions Associated to Hospitalization in Influenza A (H1N1) 2009 Virus Infected Patients in Spain, 2009-2010
The emergence and pandemic spread of a new strain of influenza A (H1N1) virus in 2009 resulted in a serious alarm in clinical and public health services all over the world. One distinguishing feature of this new influenza ...
Efficient and flexible Integration of variant characteristics in rare variant association studies using integrated nested Laplace approximation
Rare variants are thought to play an important role in the etiology of complex diseases and may explain a significant fraction of the missing heritability in genetic disease studies. Next-generation sequencing facilitates ...
Comparabilidad de las ediciones 2006/07 y 2011/12 de la Encuesta Nacional de Salud de España
The Spanish Health Survey (SHS) is one of the main sources on social determinants of health. The objectives were to describe the data merging process of the 2006/07 and 2011/12 SHS editions, as well as to provide the merged ...
Modeling Influence of Soil Properties in Different Gradients of Soil Moisture: The Case of the Valencia Anchor Station Validation Site, Spain
The prediction of spatial and temporal variation of soil water content brings numerous benefits in the studies of soil. However, it requires a considerable number of covariates to be included in the study, complicating the ...
Arrow on domain conditions: a fruitful road to travel
We stress the importance that Arrow attached to studying the role of domain conditions in determining the validity of his impossibility theorem, a subject to which he devoted two chapters of Social Choice and Individual ...
Determinants of social media’s use in consumer behaviour: an international comparison
This research focuses on the impact of social media (SM) on their users’ behaviour vis-a-vis their decision to purchase goods and services online as well as their attitudes towards these media. The theoretical framework ...
Comparison of Zebrafish Larvae and hiPSC Cardiomyocytes for Predicting Drug-Induced Cardiotoxicity in Humans
Cardiovascular drug toxicity is responsible for 17% of drug withdrawals in clinical phases, half of post-marketed drug withdrawals and remains an important adverse effect of several marketed drugs. Early assessment of ...
