Econometria, Estadística i Economia Aplicada: Recent submissions
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Dataset of the work - The short-run relationship between inequality and growth: evidence from OECD regions during the Great Recession
Dades associades a l'article: Vicente Royuela, Paolo Veneri & Raul Ramos (2018): The short-run relationship between inequality and growth: evidence from OECD regions during the Great Recession, Regional Studies, DOI: ...
When the time is right: Testing for dynamic effects in collaborative performance
Organizations develop collaborative relationships in order to manage external interdependencies that are consequential for performance. Econometric research has tested whether such collaboration brings improved performance ...
La apuesta por la industria como base del nuevo modelo productivo en España. Política industrial, relevancia de la I+D y necesidad de mejorar el sistema educativo
La industria debe ser clave en el nuevo modelo productivo a implantar en España, por lo que es preciso impulsarla con una política industrial más activa, desde sus dos dimensiones, la visión horizontal y la sectorial. Las ...
On the bivariate Sarmanov distribution and copula. An application on insurance data using truncated marginal distributions
The Sarmanov family of distributions can provide a good model for bivariate random variables and it is used to model dependency in a multivariate setting with given marginals. In this paper, we focus our attention on the ...
A Sarmanov Distribution with Beta Marginals: An Application to Motor Insurance Pricing
Background: The Beta distribution is useful for fitting variables that measure a probability or a relative frequency. Methods: We propose a Sarmanov distribution with Beta marginals specified as generalised linear models. ...
Paying for protection: Bilateral trade with an alliance leader and defense spending of minor partners
Military spending was the main government expenditure until the 20th century, and it still represents a significant fraction of most governments’ budgets. We develop a theoretical model to understand how both military and ...
Teamwork, peer assessment and double revision of assignments as strategies for teaching quantitative research methods in Sociology
Sociology and statistics are part of the study programme in many bachelor's degrees and masters, some of them not focused primarily on quantitative research methods. This is the case of specific business management programmes, ...
El acuerdo para rellenar la hucha de las pensiones afectará a la nómina, los impuestos y los costes laborales
Con el acuerdo para aumentar las cotizaciones los trabajadores cobrarán menos, los empresarios pagarán más y Hacienda obtendrá menos ingresos por IRPF. Sin embargo, esta medida es un claro triunfo del interés colectivo.
Assesing the effectiveness of recient pension reforms: The French experiment
Reforming public and private pension systems to address the challenges posed by population ageing and a range of economic, labour market, social, political, geopolitical, technological, legal, and regulatory shocks remains ...
Road safety determinants: do political institutions matter?
In 2010 the United Nations General Assembly adopted resolution 64/255 declaring 2011-2020 the Decade of Action for Road Safety with the main goal of stabilizing and then reducing the level of road traffic fatalities (United ...
Winners and Losers in Toll Motorway Renegotiations: an empirical evaluation of the Spanish Pioneers
This paper evaluates the welfare impact of a tolled motorway contract renegotiation in Spain. The results show that, after renegotiation, both taxpayers and the private concessionaire were better off. However, road users ...
Star recruitment and internationalization effects: an analysis of the Alexander von Humboldt professorship programme
We investigate the impact of policies aimed at attracting foreign-based star scientists on the internationalisation of host institutions. In particular, we examine the case of the Alexander von Humboldt Professorship (AvHP) ...
Is There an Estimation Bias in Occupational Health and Safety Surveys? The Mode of Administration and Informants as a Source of Error
Information quality deficiencies have been detected in occupational safety and health surveys in Europe, which typically gather self-reported data responded by employers or their representatives. For instance, their low ...
Spatial Inequalities and Economic Growth. Editorial
In this editorial, we summarise and comment on the five articles published in issue 9.2. The five articles are a selection of papers presented at the 'Workshop on Inequality and Regional Growth and Cohesion' organised by ...
Análisis de la dependencia espacial entre índices bursátiles
Analizamos las ventajas de utilizar relaciones de vecindad entre mercados bursátiles basadas en criterios horarios, como son las diferencias horarias entre países y las horas de apertura simultáneas entre mercados, si se ...
Facing Up to Longevity with Old Actuarial Methods: A Comparison of Pooled Funds and Income Tontines
We compare the concepts underlying modern actuarial solutions to pension insurance and present two recently developed pension products-pooled annuity overlay funds (based on actuarial fairness) and equitable income tontines ...
Expected shortfall computation with multiple control variates
In this work we derive an exact formula to calculate the Expected Shortfall (ES) value for the one-factor delta-gamma approach which, to the best of our knowledge, was still missing in the literature. We then use the ...
Relatedness, external linkages and regional innovation in Europe
Relatedness, external linkages and regional innovation in Europe. Regional Studies. This paper analyses if the generation of new knowledge benefits from the combination of similar or dissimilar pieces of existing technologies, ...
Agglomeration, Inequality and Economic Growth
Agglomeration and income inequality at country level can be both understood as concentration of physical and human capital in the process of economic development. As such, it seems pertinent to analyse their impact on ...
In knowledge we trust: learning-by-interacting and the productivity of inventors
Innovation rarely happens through the actions of a single person. Innovators source ideas while interacting with peers at different levels and intensities. With a dataset of disambiguated inventors from 1980 to 2010 in ...
