Institut de Recerca en Economia Aplicada Regional i Pública (IREA): Recent submissions
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What really matters is the economic performance: Positioning tourist destinations by means of perceptual maps
The present study aims to cluster the world's main tourist destinations according to the growth of the economic performance of the tourist activity and of the tourist and economic development experienced during the last ...
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, ...
Migrant Inventors and Environmental-Related Technologies: A Life Cycle Perspective in US MSAs
One important factor in addressing climate change is the development and deployment of environmental-related, or green, technologies (GT). Environmental-related technologies are distinct, requiring specific conditions to ...
Trickle-Down Economics, Merit, and Redistribution: An Experiment with the Poorest and Richest US Americans
Despite growing income inequality, demand for redistribution has remained stagnant, which is puzzling for the poor. We investigate whether attitudes toward “trickle-down” economics and fairness affect redistribution demand. ...
Environmental degradation, income and economic complexity: Evidence from European countries
Recent energy tensions caused by conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East have added to the pressure that global warming exerts for an energy transition towards low-carbon energy sources. This study combines two time series ...
Ageing and health-related quality of life: evidence from Catalonia (Spain) [WP-IR]
Reaching advanced old age is more common now than ever. The sustained growth in longevity raises questions about why some people can feel in good quality of life until the last stages, while others seem to accuse the natural ...
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 ...
Fast Charging Stations: Simulating Entry and Location in a Game of Strategic Interaction [WP]
This paper uses a game of strategic interaction to simulate entry and location of fast charging stations for electric vehicles. It evaluates the equilibria obtained in terms of social welfare and firm spatial differentiation. ...
On the dynamics of exports and FDI: The Spanish Internationalization Process
This paper provides further insights into the dynamics of exports and outward foreign direct investment (FDI) flows in Spain from a time-series approach. The contribution of the paper is twofold: 1) the existence of either ...
La corrupción política en España: un análisis descriptivo (2000-2020)
El presente trabajo resume una base de datos sobre la corrupción política en España en el período 2000-2020 para todos los niveles territoriales. Los resultados muestran que durante 20 años se han desvelado 3.743 casos de ...
The Role of Firm Size in Training Provision Decisions: evidence from Spain
The level of training provided by small firms to their employees is below that provided by their larger counterparts. The provision of firm-related training is believed to be associated to certain characteristics of the ...
What drives the spatial wage premium for formal and informal workers? The case of Ecuador [WP]
This article investigates the incidence of agglomeration externalities in a typical developing country, Ecuador. In particular, we analyze the role of the informal sector within these relations, since informal employment ...
Labor Market Monopsony and Firm Behavior: Evidence from Spanish Exporters
In this paper, I develop a method to estimate the effect of firm behavior on labor market monopsony power. Using China’s accession to WTO for the identification, I employ the proposed empirical framework to analyse the ...
Choosing hybrid organizations for local services delivery : An empirical analysis of partial privatization
The empirical literature about factors explaining local government delivery choices has traditionally focused the attention on the public or private production dilemma. However, hybrid organizational forms such as mixed ...
Pass-through in dollarized countries: should Ecuador abandon the U.S. Dollar? [WP]
In this article we examine the convenience of dollarization for Ecuador today. As Ecuador is strongly integrated financially and commercially with the United States, the exchange rate pass-through should be zero. However, ...
Time-varying effects when analysing customer lifetime duration: application to the insurance market
The Cox model (Cox, 1972) is widely used in customer lifetime duration research, but it assumes that the regression coefficients are time invariant. In order to analyse the temporal covariate effects on the duration times, ...
Urban transport governance reform in Barcelona
The unusual mixed public-private structure of the urban bus market in the metropolitan area of Barcelona provides an interesting context in which to analyze the management challenges and opportunities of the partial ...
Institutional Determinants of Military Spending
Drawing on a database for 1988-2006 containing information on 157 countries, we investigate the effects on military spending of government form, electoral rules, concentration of parliamentary parties, and ideology. From ...
Factor Accumulation, Externalities and Absorptive Capacity in Regional Growth : Evidence from Europe [WP]
This paper proposes a model which incorporates capital accumulation and spatial spillovers across economies, while allowing for regional differences in absorptive abilities. This model is estimated using a sample of 215 ...
What drives migration moves across urban areas in Spain? Evidence from the Great Recession [WP]
In Spain, economic disparities between regions have traditionally played a relevant role in migration. Nevertheless, during the previous high-instability period, analyses provided conflicting results about the effect of ...
