AQR (Grup d’Anàlisi Quantitativa Regional): Enviaments recents
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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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Has the economic crisis worsened the world-related stress and mental health of temporary workers in Spain? [WP]
This paper analyses the causal effects of temporary employment on work-related stress and mental health before (2006/07) and during the economic crisis (2011/12) and examines whether the economic recession worsened these ...
On the regional impact of broadband on productivity: the case of Brazil [WP]
This paper analyses the incidence of broadband on regional productivity in Brazil, intending to find out if the economic impact is uniform across all territories of the country. The possibility of performing a regional ...
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 ...
Pictures are worth many words: Effectiveness of visual communication in dispelling the rent–control misconception
The popular belief that rent–control leads to an increase in the amount of affordable housing is in contradiction with ample empirical evidence and congruent theoretical explanations. It can therefore be qualified as a ...
Breakthrough innovations : The impact of foreign acquisition of knowledge [WP]
Based on the Spanish Technological Innovation Panel, this paper explores the role of R+D offshoring on innovation performance from 2004 to 2013. Specifically, we focus our attention on the impact of different types of ...
Cartel destabilization effect of leniency programs
This paper investigates the theoretically and empirically unsettled question of the effect of the leniency programs on cartel duration, cartel fines and the length of the investigation. The fact that leniency programs were ...
An analysis of the Okun´s law for the Spanish provinces
The inverse relationship between unemployment and Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth, commonly known as Okun’s law, has been traditionally analysed in the economic literature. Its application for Spain has been carried ...
Does decentralization affect local entrepreneurial capacity?
In recent decades, decentralization has become a prominent topic in both academic and political discussions, with research increasingly focusing on its implications for economic development. This paper explores a specific ...
A new measure of consensus for Likert scales [WP]
In this study we present a metric of consensus for Likert-type scales. The measure gives the level of agreement as the percentage of consensus among respondents. The proposed framework allows to design a positional indicator ...
What drives regional differences in BMI? Evidence from Spain [WP]
This paper aims to contribute to the debate on the North–South health divide, by disentangling the conditioning factors that account for regional differences in BMI. Based on the Spanish data of the European Health Survey ...
