Institut de Recerca en Economia Aplicada Regional i Pública (IREA): Recent submissions
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Quality in work and aggregate productivity
We explore the relationship between quality in work and aggregate productivity in regions and sectors. Using recent Spanish aggregate data for the period 2001-2006, we find that quality in work may be an important factor ...
Privatisation and Remunicipalisation of Urban Water in Catalonia: Between Monopolisation, State and the Commons
We study how the privatisation of urban water is being challenged in Catalonia, which has a high proportion of private management and a high degree of monopolisation in the water contract market, compared to Spain. We use ...
Short-run and long-run effects of public debt on economic performance: Evidence from EMU countries
This paper contributes to the literature by examining the possible influence of public debt on economic performance, using data from both central and peripheral countries of the European Economic and Monetary Union for the ...
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 ...
The bivariate Sarmanov distribution for insurance claim frequencies and average severities
Real data studies emphasized situations where the classical independence assumption between the frequency and the severity of claims does not hold in the collective model. Therefore, there is an increasing interest in ...
Fiscal sustainability and fiscal shocks in a dollarized and oil-exporting country: Ecuador
This paper investigates the fiscal sustainability of an emerging, dollarized, oil-exporting country: Ecuador. A cointegrated VAR approach is adopted in testing, first, if the intertemporal budget constraint is satisfied ...
Price Bubbles in Lithium Markets around the World
The global energy transition to low-carbon technologies for transportation is heavily dependent on lithium. By leveraging the latest advances in timeseries econometrics we show that lithium prices (carbonate and hydroxide) ...
Technology Catching-up and the Role of Institutions
The aim of the paper is to investigate the role played by differences in Institutional Quality on the process of technology catch-up across countries. Empirical evidence shows how countries endowed with better institutions ...
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 ...
Fiscal Regime Shifts in Portugal
We estimate changes in fiscal policy regimes in Portugal with a Markov Switching regression of fiscal policy rules for the period 1978-2007, using a new dataset of fiscal quarterly series. We find evidence of a deficit ...
Daily Growth at Risk: financial or real drivers? The answer is not always the same [WP]
We estimate Growth-at-Risk (GaR) statistics for the US economy using daily regressors. We show that the relative importance, in terms of forecasting power, of financial and real variables is time varying. Indeed, 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 ...
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 ...
Factors Explaining Inter-municipal Cooperation in Service Delivery: A Meta-Regression Analysis [WP]
Inter-municipal cooperation is an important public service delivery reform, whose drivers move beyond simple concerns with costs and economic efficiency, to policy issues related to governance structure and spatial context. ...
Does It Take More Than One Village? The Effect of Inter-Municipal Cooperation on Waste Separation
Municipalities increasingly cooperate with one another to improve their public services. In this study, we estimate the causal effect of Inter-Municipal Cooperation (IMC) on the environmental performance of waste collection ...
Exposure to risk increases the excess of zero accident claims frequency in automobile insurance
Most automobile insurance databases contain a large number of policy holders with zero claims. This high frequency of zeros may reflect the fact that some insureds make little use of their vehicle, or that they do not wish ...
Determinants of the decision to appeal against motor bodily injury settlements awarded by Spanish trial courts
Automobile bodily injury disputes represent one of the main causes of litigation faced by Spanish Courts. In this paper a multinomial model is implemented to analyse which factors determine the decision to appeal against ...
Debating as a classroom tool for adapting learning outcomes to the European higher education area
The creation of the European Higher Education Area has meant a number of significant changes to the educational structures of the university community. In particular, the new system of European credits has generated the ...
Determinants of Broadband Access: Is Platform Competition always the Key Variable to Success?
Previous studies have identified the rivalry among technological platforms as one of the main driving forces of broadband services penetration. This paper draws on data from the Spanish market between 2005 and 2011 to ...
Prevalence of alcohol-impaired drivers based on random breath tests in a roadside survey
Sobriety checkpoints are not usually randomly located by traffic authorities. As such, information provided by non-random alcohol tests cannot be used to infer the characteristics of the general driving population. In this ...
