AQR (Grup d’Anàlisi Quantitativa Regional): Enviaments recents
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Economic determinants of employment sentiment: A socio-demographic analysis for the euro area
In this study we construct quarterly consumer confidence indicators of unemployment for the euro area using as input the consumer expectations for sixteen socio-demographic groups elicited from the Joint Harmonised EU ...
Factor Accumulation, Externalities and Absorptive Capacity in Regional Growth : Evidence from Europe [WP]
This paper proposes a model which incorporates capital accumulation and spatial spillovers across economies, while allowing for regional differences in absorptive abilities. This model is estimated using a sample of 215 ...
Malthus living in a slum : urban concentration, infrastructures and economic grouwth
The link between urban concentration and economic growth at country level is not straightforward, as there are benefits as well as costs associated with urban concentration. Indeed, recent empirical evidence suggests ...
Do voice and social information contribute to changing views about rent control policy?
Citizens’ ability to make informed and thoughtful choices when voting for policy proposals rests on their awareness of and access to accurate information about the costs and benefits that each proposal entails. We study ...
The extent of rent sharing along the wage distribution
The relation between rent sharing and wages has generally been evaluated on average wages. This paper uses a unique employer-employee panel database to investigate the extent of rent sharing along the wage distribution in ...
Migrant Inventors as Agents of Technological Change [WP]
How do regions enter new and distant technological fields? Who is triggering this process? This work addresses these compelling research questions by investigating the role of migrant inventors in the process of technological ...
Regional tourism demand forecasting with machine learning models : Gaussian process regression vs. neural network models in a multiple-input multiple-output setting
This study presents a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) approach for multi-step-ahead time series prediction with a Gaussian process regression (GPR) model. We assess the forecasting performance of the GPR model with ...
Forecasting Business surveys indicators: neural networks vs. time series models
The objective of this paper is to compare different forecasting methods for the short run forecasting of Business Survey Indicators. We compare the forecasting accuracy of Artificial Neural Networks -ANN- vs. three different ...
The Business Excellence Attraction Composite Index (BEACI). Design and application to the Municipalities of the Barcelona Province
The location of economic activity, in general, and of that of activities of business excellence (high-tech or knowledge-intensive businesses that have a low environmental impact), in particular, is not dependent on one ...
The distributive effects of conventional and unconventional monetary policies
The paper evaluates the distributional effects of conventional and unconventional monetary policies for the USA. The distributional effects are evaluated for the overall impact on the income distribution, using Gini index. ...
A regional perspective on the accuracy of machine learning forecasts of tourism demand based on data characteristics
In this work we assess the role of data characteristics in the accuracy of machine learning (ML) tourism forecasts from a spatial perspective. First, we apply a seasonal-trend decomposition procedure based on non-parametric ...
Measuring Sovereign Bond Spillover in Europe and the Impact of Rating News
Although there is by now strong evidence that sovereign risk premia are driven by a common factor, little is known about the detailed linkages between sovereign bond markets. We employ the VAR method by Diebold and Yilmaz, ...
Tracking positive and negative effects of inequality on long-run growth [WP]
Despite extensive research, there is still controversy on the effects of income inequality on economic growth. The literature proposes several transmission channels through which these effects may take place, and even the ...
Nowcasting and forecasting GDP growth with machine-learning sentiment indicators
We apply the two-step machine-learning method proposed by Claveria et al. (2021) to generate country-specific sentiment indicators that provide estimates of year-on-year GDP growth rates. In the first step, by means of ...
Bilingual Schooling and Earnings: Evidence from a Language-in-Education reform [WP]
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 ...
Trains of Thought: High-Speed Rail and Innovation in China
This paper explores the effect of the High Speed Rail (HSR) network expansion on local innovation in China during the period 2008-2016. Using exogenous variation arising from a novel instrument - courier’s stations during ...
Effects of removing the trend and the seasonal component on the forecasting performance of artificial neural network techniques
This study aims to analyze the effects of data pre-processing on the performance of forecasting based on neural network models. We use three different Artificial Neural Networks techniques to forecast tourist demand: a ...
The Impact of Immigration on Native Employment: Evidence from Italy [WP]
Whether host countries economically benefit or not from immigration is a longstanding debate. In this paper, by taking advantage of the consistent variation of foreign-born workers' settlements across local labor market, ...
Regional Forecasting with Support Vector Regressions: The Case of Spain
This study attempts to assess the forecasting accuracy of Support Vector Regression (SVR) with regard to other Artificial Intelligence techniques based on statistical learning. We use two different neural networks and three ...
Job Accessibility, Employment and Job-Education Mismatch in the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona [WP]
This paper analyses the effect of job accessibility by public and private transport on labour market outcomes in the metropolitan area of Barcelona. Beyond employment, we consider the effect of job accessibility on ...
