Econometria, Estadística i Economia Aplicada: Envíos recientes
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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 ...
Efficiency and productivity gains of robotic surgery: The case of the English National Health Service
This paper examines the effect of new medical technology (robotic surgery) on efficiency gains and productivity changes for surgical treatment in patients with prostate cancer from the perspective of a public health sector ...
Big-data Analytics en seguros
La revolución del big-data ha impactado en el sector asegurador más de lo que se esperaba, hasta convertirse en un ejemplo paradigmático de lo que es la nueva economía digital. La gran cantidad de datos y la modelización ...
High-speed rail accessibility: a comparative analysis of urban access in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Madrid, and Barcelona
This paper is intended to set the context for policy discussion on HSR feasibility from the perspective of station accessibility. We compare the proposed Los Angeles - San Francisco HSR corridor to the functioning HSR line ...
Effects of unit-based pricing on household waste collection demand: a meta-regression analysis
Reducing the quantity of waste is an objective pursued by an increasing number of governments. Pricing waste has been one of the most important tools used for that purpose, and the literature on the demand for household ...
Multi-state models for evaluating conversion options in life insurance
In this paper we propose a multi-state model for the evaluation of the conversion option contract. The multi-state model is based on age-indexed semi-Markov chains that are able to reproduce many important aspects that ...
Skill mismatches in the EU: Immigrants vs. Natives
The objective of this paper is to analyse and explain the factors behind the observed differences in skill mismatches -vertical and horizontal-, between natives and immigrants in EU countries. Using microdata from the 2007 ...
Knowledge flows and technologies in renewable energies at the regional level in Europe
This study provides a new insight into the impact of knowledge flows for renewable energy (RE) technologies. With patent data for the European regions in the period 2000-10, we observe that RE technologies have more ...
How Much Vertical Integration? Contractual Choice and Public-Private Partnerships in the United States
Efficiency gains in Public-Private Partnerships derive from risk transfer and the bundling of different tasks. We study the factors that explain bundling in single contracts. We focus on the choice between integrating ...
Generalized Market Uncertainty Measurement in European Stock Markets in Real Time
We estimate generalized market uncertainty indicators for the stock markets of eight European countries greatly affected by the recent Covid-19 crisis and the economic measures implemented for its containment and mitigation. ...
Graduates and competences: analyzing the gap between university and enterprise = Graduats i competències: analitzant la bretxa entre universitat i empresa = Graduados y competencias: analizando la brecha entre universidad y empresa
[eng] As a result of the process of convergence relative to higher education initiated in Bologna in 1999, the role of the University in the society is undergoing a profound transformation. The traditional paradigm, according ...
Does human capital stimulate investment in physical capital?: Evidence from a cost system framework
The direct effect of human capital on economic growth has been widely analysed in the economic literature. This paper, however, focuses on its indirect effect as a stimulus for private investment in physical capital. The ...
Inequality in European Regions: Recent trends and determinants
Income inequality is both at the political and academic agenda. Because of the Great Recession, income inequality has experienced an increase in many parts of the world in general and in many European regions in particular. ...
El alcance de la política de colocación en España
<p>Nuestro estudio se centra en el análisis del alcance de la política de colocación en España a lo largo del periodo 2007-2016. Después de repasar el marco regulatorio y valorar los efectos del acuerdo marco de colaboración ...
Influencia de la variable aleatoria implícita en la fórmula estándar en el cálculo del SCR del riesgo de suscripción no vida
El requerimiento de capital de solvencia del riesgo de primas y reservas no vida bajo el enfoque del modelo estándar viene determinada por la fórmula especificada en el último estudio de impacto cuantitativo. Dicha fórmula ...
Worked hours, job satisfaction and self-perceived health
Purpose To analyse the potential confounding and moderator role of job satisfaction on the effect of working hours on self-perceived health and to analyse the effect of transitions between working hours and job satisfaction. ...
Escenarios del impacto de la inmigración en la longevidad y dependencia de los mayores en la población española
Introduction: The composition of the Spanish population has recently changed due to immigration. The present study aimed to estimate the magnitude of change in the calculation of healthy life expectancy and life expectancy ...
Tropezando dos veces con la misma piedra: Quiebra de autopistas de peaje y costes para contribuyentes y usuarios
Este trabajo analiza la distribución de los riesgos en los contratos de colaboración público-privada en el sector de las autopistas de peaje y cuáles han sido las garantías otorgadas a lo largo del tiempo. Aunque se observa ...
Formative peer assessment: improving competences in Statistics students = Evaluación formativa entre iguales: una experiencia de mejora competencial en estudiantes de Estadística
A prevailing trend in the European university system at present is to confer an active role to the student. The new teaching and learning strategies give a preeminent position to the assessment process, which has moved ...
European stock market volatility connectedness: The role of country and sector membership
The literature suggests that the country in which a company is listed, i.e., its country membership, is the main determinant of its price volatility co-movements in the global stock market but, at the same time, this body ...
