AQR (Grup d’Anàlisi Quantitativa Regional): Recent submissions
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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 ...
Income inequality and redistribution in Scandinavian countries
This paper investigates the adjustment of government redistributive policies in Scandinavian countries following changes in income inequality over the period 1980-2021. We use two complementary measures of inequality: the ...
Education and Ethnic Intermarriage: Evidence from Higher Education Expansion in Indonesia [WP]
In this paper, we analyse the effect of educational attainments on interethnic marriages in Indonesia, a multi-ethnic emerging country. The empirical analysis is based on data from the Java Island obtained from the 2014 ...
Location Patterns of Creative Capital and Regional Disparities in Spain
The creative class as a source of growth has been afforded increasing attention in recent years. However, creative people are not distributed evenly across space, tending rather to concentrate in particular locations. The ...
Graduate migration in Spain: the impact of the great recession on a low mobility country
This work studies the impact that the Great Recession has had on the migration of graduates in Spain, a country with low international mobility for graduates but where push factors associated to the crisis have probably ...
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 ...
Green regions and local firms’ innovation [WP]
Technological innovation is essential to achieve simultaneously economic, environmental and social goals (i.e. the green growth). Indeed, many studies found that environmental innovation spurs overall innovation. However, ...
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 ...
Differences in efficiency between Formal and Informal Micro Firms in Mexico
The economic role of micro firms is still the subject of much discussion and debate. While these firms can be seen as potential growth drivers, as they are usually related to entrepreneurship, a relatively high share of ...
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 ...
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 ...
Determinants of Micro Firm Informality in Mexican States 2008-2012
Informality has been given adverse associations as a result of its economic and social consequences in developed and developing countries. The latter group of countries has been the most affected in terms of low productivity, ...
New Imported Inputs, Wages and Worker Mobility [WP]
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
Geographical distribution of the COVID-19 pandemic across waves in Spain
This paper pursues a deep insight in the evolution of the spatial distribution of the pandemic in the Spanish provinces along the six waves. Through the use of spatial exploratory techniques, we observe that the geographical ...
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 ...
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 ...
