Xarxa de Referència en Economia Aplicada (XREAP): Recent submissions
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Relocation of the Rich: Migration in Response to Top Tax Rate Changes from Spanish Reforms
Recent Spanish tax reform granted regions the authority to set income tax rates, resulting in substantial tax di erentials. We use individual-level information from Social Security records over a period of one decade. ...
Economic impact of cruise activity: the port of Barcelona
Tourism is a highly dynamic sector. An example of this is the boom that cruise tourism has seen in recent years, leading many countries to consider cruises a key product in their development of tourism. The Port of Barcelona ...
Long-Lasting Social Capital and its Impact on Economic Development: The Legacy of the Commons
This paper analyzes the historical determinants and long-term persistence of social capital, as well as its effect on economic development, by looking at the legacy of the commons in a Spanish region. In medieval times, ...
Economic Crisis and Social Trust: Reviewing the effects of economic hardship on interpersonal and institutional confidence
The economic crisis of 2008 led to a significant erosion of trust in those countries that were hit hardest. However, whether this fall in trust can best be explained by external economic factors or by the lack of response ...
Forecasting compositional risk allocations
We analyse models for panel data that arise in risk allocation problems,when a given set of sources are the cause of an aggregate risk value. We focus on the modeling and forecasting of proportional contributions to risk. ...
Tracking economic growth by evolving expectations via genetic programming: A two-step approach
The main objective of this study is to present a two-step approach to generate estimates of economic growth based on agents’ expectations from tendency surveys. First, we design a genetic programming experiment to derive ...
Alternative methods of estimating the longevity risk
The aim of this paper is to estimate the longevity rsk and its trend according to the age of the individual. We focus on individuals over 65. We use the value-at-risk to measure the longevity risk. We have proposed the use ...
New Imported Inputs, Wages and Worker Mobility
We provide a comprehensive assessment of the effects of new imported inputs on wage dynamics, on the skill-composition of the labor force, on worker mobility, and on the efficiency of matching between firms and workers. ...
Machine Learning Forecasts of Public Transport Demand: A comparative analysis of supervised algorithms using smart card data
Public transport smart cards are widely used around the world. However, while they provide information about various aspects of passenger behavior, they have not been properly exploited to predict demand. Indeed, traditional ...
Detecting Outliers with Semi-Supervised Machine Learning: A Fraud Prediction Application
Abnormal pattern prediction has received a great deal of attention from both academia and industry, with applications that range from fraud, terrorism and intrusion detection to sensor events, medical diagnoses, weather ...
Gender diversity, R&D teams and patents: An application to Spanish firms
Previous results show that gender diversity increases the probability that firms invest in R&D and engage in innovation. This paper explores the relationship between gender diversity of R&D departments and their capacity ...
Housing booms and busts and local fiscal policy
This paper examines how local governments adjust their spending, savings and taxes in response to a temporary revenue windfall generated by a housing boom and how they cope with the inevitable shortfall that appears during ...
Eco-strategies and firm growth in European SMEs
This study investigates the effects of eco-strategies on firm performance in terms of sales growth in an extensive sample of 11,336 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) located in 28 European countries. Our empirical ...
Efficiency in the transformation of schooling into competences: A cross-country analysis using PIAAC data
This study (i) compares the competence levels of the adult population in a set of OECD countries; (ii) assesses the comparative efficiency with which the education system in each country transforms schooling into competences, ...
Immigration and the Reallocation of Work Health Risks
This paper studies the effects of immigration on the allocation of occupational physical burden and work injury risks. Using data for England and Wales from the Labour Force Survey (2003-2013), we find that, on average, ...
The Effects of Immigration on NHS Waiting Times
This paper analyzes the effects of immigration on waiting times for the National Health Service (NHS) in England. Linking administrative records from Hospital Episode Statistics (2003-2012) with immigration data drawn from ...
How Costly Are Labor Gender Gaps? Estimates by Age Group for the Balkans and Turkey
In this paper, survey data are used to document the presence of gender gaps in selfemployment, employership, and labor force participation in seven Balkan countries and Turkey. The paper examines the quantitative effects ...
Gender diversity, R&D teams and patents: An application to Spanish firms
Previous results show that gender diversity increases the probability firms’ innovation. This paper explores the relationship between gender diversity of R&D departments and their capacity to patent. Based on the Spanish ...
Public Private Partnership management effects on road safety outcomes
Public Private Partnerships (PPP) have become common in providing high-quality infrastructure in many countries worldwide. One of the main reasons for PPP agreements is to improve efficiency and quality in the delivery of ...
Multivariate count data generalized linear models: Three approaches based on the Sarmanov distribution
Starting from the question: “What is the accident risk of an insured?”, this paper considers a multivariate approach by taking into account three types of accident risks and the possible dependence between them. Driven by ...
