IEB (Institut d’Economia de Barcelona): Recent submissions
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Fiscal policy and politicians’ term length
This paper investigates the causal effect of the term length of political executives on economic policy outcomes. To establish causality, we exploit the staggered adoption of four-year terms for governors across US states, ...
Intimate partner violence and income: Quasi-experimental evidence from the earned income tax credit
We estimate the impact of an exogenous increase in income on the prevalence and counts of intimate partner violence (IPV). We exploit time and family-size variation in the earned income tax credit (EITC) by comparing ...
Wealth tax enforcement: The role of tax and institutional design
Enforcing wealth tax compliance among high-net-worth individuals is particularly challenging. Using administrative data on the Net Wealth Tax for Catalan taxpayers over the 2011–2020 period, this paper evaluates the impact ...
Female empowerment and intimate partner violence
The chapter reviews the economic literature on intimate partner violence (IPV), a widespread human rights violation affecting nearly one in three women globally and generating significant societal costs. It focuses on the ...
When policy meets weather: Extreme temperatures and workplace safety
This paper estimates the causal effects of extreme temperatures and a related adaptation policy on workplace accidents in Spain, combining administrative records on occupational accidents with high-resolution weather data. ...
Fiscal drag with microsimulation: Evidence from Spanish tax records
Fiscal drag arises when nominal tax parameters remain unchanged despite nominal income growth, thereby increasing effective tax rates and revenue. We use Spanish administrative tax records and a detailed microsimulation ...
Public Capital, Growth and Convergence in Spain. A Counterfactual Density
The purpose of this paper is to study the dynamics of growth and convergence in Spain for the period 1965-1995. We analyze the evolution of the per capita income distribution across Spanish provinces and estimate the effects ...
On the scope of agglomeration economies: Evidence from Catalan zip codes
This paper aims at studying the scope of agglomerations economies empirically. In particular, two issues are explored. First, the industrial scope of agglomeration economies is analysed, by comparing the effects arising ...
Decentralization of government and contracting with the private sector
Using a simple model of incomplete contracts to characterize the relationship between decentralization and contracting with the private sector, I show that, provided that the expected reduction in quality is low, more ...
Do information and communication technologies (ICT) improve educational outcomes? Evidence for Spain in PISA 2015
With the world becoming increasingly digitalized, determining the relationship between the use of ICT in the learning process and educational outcomes takes on special relevance for guiding educational policy decisions in ...
Analysing the potential economic value of energy storage [WP]
This paper examines the likely market for electrical energy storage from a market viewpoint, taking market prices as given and determining the extent to which a strategy of arbitrage across the day, buying at the lowest ...
R&D drivers and obstacles to innovation in the energy industry [WP-IEB]
The energy industry is facing substantial challenges that require innovation to be fostered. Nevertheless, levels of R&D investment and innovation remain quite low in comparison with other sectors. In this paper we analyse ...
Partisan targeting of inter-governmental transfers & state interference in local elections: evidence from Spain [WP-IEB]
We examine whether state-level incumbents discriminate in the allocation of transfers in favour of local governments controlled by co-partisans, and whether the electoral prospects of local incumbents improve when they are ...
Analysing the sensitivity of electricity system operational costs to deviations in supply and demand
Increasing renewable penetration has given rise to a series of challenges as regards the ability of electricity systems to balance supply and demand, particularly with high levels of intermittent renewable generation. This ...
Can a knowledge-based cluster be created? The case of the Barcelona 22@district
The aim of this paper is to track the location decisions of knowledge-intense firms in a redeveloped urban district in the city of Barcelona in which government policy has promoted the formation of a cluster of knowledge-based ...
Income segregation in monocentric and polycentric cities: Does urban form really matter?
We estimate the effect of urban spatial structure on income segregation in Brazilian cities between 2000 and 2010. Our results show that, first, local density conditions increase income segregation: the effect is higher ...
The effect of the l’Aquila earthquake on labour market outcomes
Using Labour Force Survey individual-level data recently released by the Italian Institute of Statistics (ISTAT) where information is for the first time at available at provincial level, this paper looks at the short-term ...
The impact of R&D on employment in Europe: a firm-level analysis
The aim of this paper is to test the employment effect of business R&D expenditures, using a unique longitudinal database covering 677 European manufacturing and service firms over the period 1990-2008. Main result from ...
Spillover effects and regional determinants in the Ecuadorian clean-cooking program: A spatiotemporal econometric analysis
Developing countries are making great efforts to electrify residences to reduce dependence on fossil fuels and deal with climate change. In 2014, Ecuador launched a clean-cooking program known as the Programa de Cocción ...
Local human capital and productivity: An analysis for the Spanish regions
In this paper, we examine the relationship between the stock of human capital and productivity in the Spanish regions (NUTS III), and assess whether the transmission channel involves external economies. The empirical ...
