AQR (Grup d’Anàlisi Quantitativa Regional): Recent submissions
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Language of Instruction, Bilingualism, and Neighbourhood Quality: Do Local Language Skills Matter?
This paper investigates whether acquiring proficiency in a local language improves neighbourhood quality in a bilingual region, focusing on Catalonia, Spain. The analysis uses rich microdata linked to census-tract measures ...
Emissions and Allowances in the EU Emissions Trading System after the Paris Agreement
In this paper, I examine how allowances allocation affected emissions of power sector installations in the EU ETS following the Paris Agreements. The dataset I use covers the 2010-2022 period, includes the emissions and ...
When one door closes: the impact of the hagwon curfew on the consumption of private tutoring in the Republic of Korea [WP IREA]
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 ...
Do anti-discrimination laws alleviate labor market duality? Quasi-experimental evidence from Korea
Labor market segmentation is a growing phenomenon in many countries across different continents. In 2007, the Korean government undertook a labor reform prohibiting undue discriminatory treatment against fixed-term, ...
In knowledge we trust: learning-by-interacting and the productivity of inventors [WP]
Innovation rarely happens through the actions of a single person. Innovators source their ideas while interacting with their peers, at different levels and with different intensities. In this paper, we exploit a dataset ...
Relatedness, external linkages and innovation
This paper has two main objectives. First, it estimates the impact of related and unrelated variety of European regions’ knowledge structure on their patenting activity. Second, it looks at the role of technological ...
Economic uncertainty and redistribution
This study examines the relationship between economic uncertainty and the redistributive effect of taxes and government transfers in the UK and the US over the period 1980-2021. We find that the sign of the relationship ...
On the impact of European Union Cohesion Policy on regional support for the European project
Cohesion Policy is the main policy tool of the European Union and the backbone of its regional policy. Given its characteristics, it is the EU policy with the greatest impact on the daily life of European citizens and can ...
What drives migration moves across urban areas in Spain? Evidence from the Great Recession [WP]
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 ...
A different look at the nexus between entrepreneurship and development using GEM data
We propose a new approach for the visual inspection of the dynamic interplay between several determinants of entrepreneurship and other socioeconomic variables. We focused on the evolution of these variables in 23 countries ...
Measuring and assessing economic uncertainty
This paper evaluates the dynamic response of economic activity to shocks in agents’ perception of uncertainty. The study focuses on the comparison between manufacturers 'and consumers' perception of economic uncertainty. ...
El impacto económico del Covid-19 sobre el sector turístico español
El objetivo general del documento es el estudiar el impacto de la pandemia sobre el sector turístico y la economía en general mediante un análisis comparado entre la evolución realmente observada en el sector en los años ...
Labor Market Monopsony and Firm Behavior: Evidence from Spanish Exporters
In this paper, I develop a method to estimate the effect of firm behavior on labor market monopsony power. Using China’s accession to WTO for the identification, I employ the proposed empirical framework to analyse the ...
What drives the spatial wage premium for formal and informal workers? The case of Ecuador [WP]
This article investigates the incidence of agglomeration externalities in a typical developing country, Ecuador. In particular, we analyze the role of the informal sector within these relations, since informal employment ...
Income Inequality and Monetary Policy: An analysis on the Long Run Relation
The distributional effect of monetary policy is estimated in the case of the USA. In order to identify a monetary policy shock, the paper employs contemporaneous restrictions with ex-ante identified monetary policy shocks ...
Computing functional urban areas using a hierarchical travel time approach: An applied case in Ecuador
Identifying integrated urban areas is an important issue for urban analysis and policy evaluation. In this paper, we extend the OECD’s methodology to identify Functional Urban Areas to countries where there is not commuting ...
The Impact of Robot Adoption on Global Sourcing
This paper studies the impact of robot adoption on firms’ global sourcing activities. Using a rich panel dataset of Spanish manufacturing firms, we show that robot adopting firms increased their intermediate input purchases ...
Density forecasts of inflation using Gaussian process regression models
The present study uses Gaussian Process regression models for generating density forecasts of inflation within the New Keynesian Phillips curve (NKPC) framework. The NKPC is a structural model of inflation dynamics in which ...
Economic impact of cruise activity: The Port of Barcelona [WP]
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 ...
How systemic is Spain for Europe?
We use the forecast-error variance decompositions from a VAR with daily sovereign bonds spreads since 2000 to detail the linkages between EU sovereign bond markets and banks over time. Using new summary statistics on the ...
