Institut de Recerca en Economia Aplicada Regional i Pública (IREA): Recent submissions
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The Geography of the Green Transition: Performance, Vulnerabilities and Opportunities
As the EU races to meet its 2030 emissions reduction target, regional disparities in transition progress threaten to leave some territories behind. We introduce the Regional Green Transition Performance Index (RGTP), a ...
Taking Back Control of Urban Water Distribution: The Effect of Remunicipalization on Water Bills
Governments around the globe are considering taking back direct control as an option to reform privatized public services, particularly on the local level. Using a difference-in-differences framework, we find that ...
A Light Bulb Goes On: Religiosity and the Adoption of electrical Technologies in 19th century France
This article studies how anti-scientific sentiment can shape the direction of technological change, focusing on the tensions between the Catholic Church and the French Republic in late nineteenth-century France. We construct ...
Power to the People: The Local Economic Effects of Renewable Energy Communities in the UK
Local responses to renewable energy projects range from opposition that delays or blocks deployment to active support and participation. A common narrative underlying these behaviors emphasizes economic considerations: ...
Municipal tax incentives and solar PV adoption: Causal evidence from Catalonia
This paper estimates the causal impact of municipal property tax exemptions on the adoption of solar photovoltaic (PV) systems in Catalonia. Using a balanced monthly panel of municipalities from 2015 to 2022, we employ a ...
Integrating Road Safety and Environmental Impact via Telematics: Modeling Traffic Accident Risk Using Vehicle Emissions
Private vehicles harm public health by contributing to air pollution and traffic accidents, the leading cause of death among young adults. Despite these risks, drivers often ignore speed limits, while society increasingly ...
Hot Property: A Spatial Analysis of Temperature and Housing Prices in Spain
This study examines the impact of extreme temperatures on housing price dynamics in Spain, considering both direct and indirect effects across geographic space. Using panel data at the provincial level and a spatial ...
Proportionality between allocations in asset management
Asset allocation refers to deciding the optimal participation of each asset within a portfolio. Therefore, these participations are a composition, and compositional methods should be used to treat the data and perform ...
Fewer seats, resilient frequencies: Impacts of large-scale High-Speed Rail liberalisation on air transport supply
This paper examines the liberalisation of high-speed rail (HSR) as a driver of intermodal competition in long-distance passenger transport. While previous research has primarily focused on the effects of HSR infrastructure ...
Refrigeration, Diets and Human Health: Evidence from Ghana
Little is known about household-level interventions to strengthen household resilience to food insecurity. Rapid electrification could enable refrigeration and transform how food is stored, prepared, and consumed. We provide ...
Britaly? Identifying euro area historical analogues to the UK’s 2022 bond market shock
Comparing the UK’s 2022 sovereign debt crisis with earlier European examples is crucial for a holistic understanding of how such crises emerge and evolve to better comprehend the warning signs of sovereign distress and the ...
Credit portfolio losses with climate change factors
In this work, we consider the problem of computing risk measures of a credit portfolio via the evaluation of the characteristic function of the loss variable. We propose a new methodology to obtain the characteristic ...
Comportamiento predictivo de los analistas institucionales españoles durante los últimos 25 años
En el actual entorno de incertidumbre económica, las predicciones de los agentes adquieren especial relevancia. El presente estudio se centra en las predicciones de eventos fijos realizadas por un panel de agentes ...
Language of Instruction, Bilingualism, and Neighbourhood Quality: Do Local Language Skills Matter?
This paper investigates whether acquiring proficiency in a local language improves neighbourhood quality in a bilingual region, focusing on Catalonia, Spain. The analysis uses rich microdata linked to census-tract measures ...
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 ...
The diabolic loop between sovereign and banking risk in the euro area
Multiple interconnected channels link banks and governments: the sovereign-exposure channel (banks hold significant amounts of sovereign debt), the safety net channel (government guarantees protect banks), and the ...
Quantifying sovereign risk in the euro area
The choice of the optimal sovereign risk indicator is crucial in the context of the euro area (EA) countries, which faced a fierce sovereign debt crisis. Traditional indicators of sovereign risk (CDS, bond yields, and ...
Monitoring time-varying systemic risk in sovereign debt and currency markets with generative AI
We propose generative artificial intelligence to measure systemic risk in the global markets of sovereign debt and foreign exchange. Through a comparative analysis, we explore three novel models to the econòmics literature ...
Emissions and Allowances in the EU Emissions Trading System after the Paris Agreement
In this paper, I examine how allowances allocation affected emissions of power sector installations in the EU ETS following the Paris Agreements. The dataset I use covers the 2010-2022 period, includes the emissions and ...
A correlation sensitivity analysis of non-life underwriting risk in solvency capital requirement estimation [WP]
This paper analyses the impact of using different correlation assumptions between lines of business when estimating the risk-based capital reserve, the Solvency Capital Requirement -SCR-, under Solvency II regulations. A ...
