Xarxa de Referència en Economia Aplicada (XREAP): Recent submissions
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Does electoral competition curb party favoritism?
We study whether incumbents facing uncontested elections channel public spending towards co‐partisan officials more than is the case of incumbents that are worried about their chances of re‐election. To do so, we draw on ...
Taxing high-income earners: Tax avoidance and mobility
The taxation of high-income earners is of importance to every country and is the subject of a considerable amount of recent academic research. Such high-income earners contribute substantial amounts of tax and generate ...
What drives migration moves across urban areas in Spain? Evidence from the Great Recession
In Spain, economic disparities between regions have traditionally played a relevant role in migration. Nevertheless, during the previous high-instability period, analyses provided conflicting results about the effect of ...
Analyzing Wage Differentials by Fields of Study: Evidence from Turkey
This paper analyzes the drivers of wage differences among college graduates who hold a degree in a different field of study. We focus on Turkey, an emerging country that is characterized by a sustained expansion of higher ...
Globalization, long-haul flights and inter-city connections
In this paper, we examine the impact of non-stop flights on the connectivity of European cities with distant locations from the rest of the world. We use data on inter-city passenger flows including non-stop and connecting ...
Persistent and transient efficiency on the stochastic production and cost frontiers – an application to the motorway sector
This paper implements both stochastic production and cost frontier analyses to estimate the efficiency of toll motorway companies in Spain, the country with the largest number of private concessionaires in this economic ...
Improving automobile insurance ratemaking using telematics: incorporating mileage and driver behaviour data
We show how data collected from a GPS device can be incorporated in motor insurance ratemaking. The calculation of premium rates based upon driver behaviour represents an opportunity for the insurance sector. Our approach ...
Financial constraints and the failure of innovation projects
Theoretical and empirical approaches have stressed the existence of financial constraints in firms’ innovative activities. Although a large number of innovation projects are abandoned before their completion, the empirical ...
How do road infrastructure investments affect the regional economy? Evidence from Spain
This paper analyses the relationship between road infrastructure improvements and investment in capital assets. Using aggregate data at a provincial level for 1977-2008, an equation for machinery and equipment investment ...
Local labor market effects of public employment
This paper quantifies the impact of public employment on local labor markets in the long-run. We adopt two quantitative approaches and apply them to the case of Spanish cities. In the first, we develop a 3-sector (public, ...
Next train to the polycentric city: The effect of railroads on subcenter formation
Recent evidence reveals that transportation’s improvements within metropolitan areas have a clear effect on population and job decentralization processes. Yet, very little has been said on how these improvements affect the ...
What is the role of innovation strategies? Evidence from Spanish firms
This paper discusses the determinants of two alternative measures of innovative success/output by looking at firm’s innovation strategies. These relationships are also discussed by distinguishing between firms belonging ...
Modelización de la dependencia del número de siniestros. Aplicación a Solvencia II
En este trabajo se estudia el efecto de la dependencia entre dos subcarteras en el requerimiento de capital obligatorio (SCR) por primas y reservas en una cartera de seguros no vida. Para ello, la dependencia se establece ...
When one door closes: the impact of the hagwon curfew on the consumption of private tutoring in the Republic of Korea
The Korean government has struggled against the proliferation of private tutoring for more than four decades. In 2006, state education authorities imposed a restriction on operating hours of hagwon (private tutoring academies ...
Growing through trade: the role of foreign growth and domestic tariffs
This paper studies the role of trading partner’ growth and a domestic import tariff in the possibility of growing through trade. To this purpose, a Ricardian model is developed in which a backward economy seeks to increase ...
Bilingual schooling and earnings: evidence from a language-in-education reform
We exploit the 1983 language-in-education reform that introduced Catalan alongside Spanish as medium of instruction in Catalan schools to estimate the labour market value of bilingual education. Identification is achieved ...
An Analysis of black-box optimization problems in reinsurance: evolutionary-based approaches
Black-box optimization problems (BBOP) are de ned as those optimization problems in which the objective function does not have an algebraic expression, but it is the output of a system (usually a computer program). This ...
An analysis of wage differentials between full- and part-time workers in Spain
This research examines wage differences between part-time and full-time workers using microdata from the Spanish Structure of Earnings Survey. The main contribution of the paper is related to the analysis of differences ...
Estimating extreme value cumulative distribution functions using bias-corrected kernel approaches
We propose a new kernel estimation of the cumulative distribution function based on transformation and on bias reducing techniques. We derive the optimal bandwidth that minimises the asymptotic integrated mean squared ...
