Institut de Recerca en Economia Aplicada Regional i Pública (IREA): Enviaments recents
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Causality and Contagion in EMU Sovereign Debt Markets [WP]
This paper contributes to the literature by applying the Granger causality approach and endogenous breakpoint test to offer an operational definition of contagion to examine European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) ...
Supervised regionalization methods: A survey (WP)
This paper reviews almost four decades of contributions on the subject of supervised regionalization methods. These methods aggregate a set of areas into a predefined number of spatially contiguous regions while optimizing ...
The nexus between variable renewable energy, economy and climate: Evidence from European countries by means of exploratory graphical analysis
We propose a new approach for the visual inspection of interactions between several variables related to the wind and solar energy sector, and a set of socioeconomic variables and natural factors that may be affecting ...
Earthquake exposure and schooling: impacts and mechanisms [WP]
Natural disasters are a significant threat to human development. In this paper, we analyze the effects of being exposed to a strong earthquake during school age on schooling outcomes. We merge geolocated data about the ...
Exploration during turbulent times an analysis of the effects of R&D cooperation on radical innovation performance during the economic crisis
During the recent economic recession, firms have been less willing to invest in innovation, which often is an uncertain and long-term process. This reduction did not occur equally for all firms, and recent literature has ...
A relational approach to the geography of innovation: a typology of regions
The aim of this study was to devise a method for computing a composite indicator that measures the regional degree of exposure to external knowledge sources. On the basis of this indicator, we propose a typology of regions ...
Partisan Climate Action, Utility Interests, and Policy Choice in the U.S. Power Sector
This paper investigates how U.S. gubernatorial partisanship and electric utility interests jointly shape the adoption and stringency of three widely used electricity-sector climate policies: greenhouse gas cap-and-trade, ...
Technological cooperation in Spanish firms
This paper aims to study to what extent participating in technological cooperation agreements can be a useful mechanism for improving the innovative capacity of Spanish firms, specially in the context of the economic ...
On the relationship between congestion and road safety in cities
We empirically examine the relationship between traffic congestion and deaths in road accidents at the city level. We use panel data from 130 large cities in Europe for the period 2008-2017. We find strong evidence of a ...
A Note on the Relationship Between the Cyclicality of Markups and Fiscal Policy
We demonstrate that the cyclical behaviour of markups is related to the cyclical behaviour of government spending. For plausible parameter assumptions, pro-cyclical spending results in less counter-cyclical mark-ups. ...
Tax me, but don’t drown me in regulations : Understanding differences in corruption across the countries of Europe
Differences in corruption perception across the countries of Europe are marked and persistent over time. This study seeks to explain these differences in the countries of both the European Union and the European Free Trade ...
Patrones de publicación internacional, (ssci) de los autores afiliados a universidades españolas, en el ámbito económico-empresarial (1994-2004)
In this paper we analyse the status of scientific publications in Economics and Business in Spain (1994-2004). We focus our research in showing the preferred journals of the authors affiliated to Spanish universities, the ...
What drives regional differences in BMI? Evidence from Spain [WP]
This paper aims to contribute to the debate on the North–South health divide, by disentangling the conditioning factors that account for regional differences in BMI. Based on the Spanish data of the European Health Survey ...
Are R&D collaborative agreements persistent at the firm level? Empirical evidence for the Spanish case
We provide evidence on the dynamics in firms’ R&D cooperation behaviour. Our main objective is to analyse if R&D collaborative agreements are persistent at the firm level, and in such a case, to study what are the main ...
Do labour mobility and technological collaborations foster geographical knowledge diffusion? The case of European regions
The goal of this paper is twofold: first, we aim to assess the role played by inventors’cross-regional mobility and collaborations in fostering knowledge diffusion across regions and subsequent innovation. Second, we intend ...
Overeducation, skills and wage penalty: Evidence for Spain using PIAAC data
The literature on educational mismatches finds that overeducated workers suffer a wage penalty compared with properly educated workers with the same level of education. Recent literature also suggests that individuals’ ...
Innovation Adoption and Productivity Growth : Evidence for Europe (WP)
The idea in this paper is to provide an empirical verification of the relationship between innovation adoption and productivity growth. After a brief revision of the literature about the concept and main determinants of ...
Detecting multiple level shifts in bounded time series
The paper proposes a sequential statistical procedure to test for the presence of level shifts affecting bounded time series, regardless of their order of integration. The paper shows that bounds are relevant for the ...
How Have Video-on-Demand Platforms Shaped Our Preferences? Endogenous Preferences in a Cultural Market
In this paper, I investigate the effect of the introduction of video-on-demand (VoD) platforms on the preferences for diferent language versions of movies. By using survey data gathered from 2014 to 2019 in the bilingual ...
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 ...
