Institut de Recerca en Economia Aplicada Regional i Pública (IREA): Recent submissions
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Coal’s Last Breath: Examining Health Impacts in England’s Coal’s Phase Out
This study used a natural experiment to determine how a nation-wide coal phase out strategy affects air pollution and in-turn health outcomes (physical and mental health) in England. The introduction of the Carbon Tax ...
Regulating Concessions of Toll Motorways, An Empirical Study on Fixed vs. Variable Term Contracts
Recent theoretical developments on concession contracts for long term infrastructure projects under uncertain demand show the benefits of allowing for flexible term contracts rather than fixing a rigid term. This study ...
Inventors on the move: tracing inventors’ mobility and its spatial distribution
This paper aims to provide insights into the phenomenon of knowledge flows. We study one of the main mechanisms through which these flows occur, i.e., the mobility of highly-skilled individuals. We focus on the geographical ...
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 ...
Beyond Value-at-Risk : GlueVaR Distortion Risk Measures
We propose a new family of risk measures, called GlueVaR, within the class of distortion risk measures. Analytical closed-form expressions are shown for the most frequently used distribution functions in financial and ...
Is Private Production of Public Services Cheaper than Public Production? A meta-regression analysis of solid waste and water services
Privatization of local government services is assumed to deliver cost savings but empirical evidence for this from around the world is mixed. We conduct a meta-regression analysis of all econometric studies examining ...
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 ...
Internet and enterprise productivity: evidence from Latin America
This paper tests three hypotheses regarding the link between internet and firm productivity: i) internet adoption and use constitute a source of productivity growth for firms in Latin America, ii) the intensity of its use ...
La reforma de la contratación en el mercado de trabajo: entre la flexibilidad y la seguridad
El actual debate sobre la reforma laboral pendiente en España se centra demasiado en el abaratamiento del despido o las modalidades de contratación como únicas formas de flexibilizar el mercado de trabajo. Este tipo de ...
Does Regional Growth Affect Public Attitudes Towards the European Union? [WP]
This study analyses the impact of growth (in absolute and relative terms) of the European regions on the attitudes towards the European Union (EU) of their citizens. It does so in a period of socio-economic turbulence ...
Evidence on the role of ownership structure on firms' innovative performance
Based on the Knowledge Production Function framework given by Griliches -1979-, we slightly modify it so that the innovative output depends upon a set of factors related to the firm internal characteristics and are influenced ...
The political economy of the Paris agreement. Income inequality and climate policy [WP]
We empirically assess how both between-country inequality and within-country inequality relate to climate policy ambition as defined by NDC pledges of the Paris Agreement (COP21). We exploit the difference between high and ...
Is the wage curve formal or informal? Evidence for Colombia (WP)
The objective of this paper is to analyse the existente or not of a wage curve in Colombia, paying special attention to the differences between formal and informal workers, an issue that has been systematically ignored in ...
Time connectedness of fear
This paper examines the interconnection between four implied volatility indices representative of the investors' consensus view of expected stock market volatility at different maturities during the period January 3, ...
Economic uncertainty and redistribution
This study examines the relationship between economic uncertainty and the redistributive effect of taxes and government transfers in the UK and the US over the period 1980-2021. We find that the sign of the relationship ...
Joining Forces or Going Solo? The Political and Economic Dynamics of Intermunicipal Cooperation
The emergence and dynamics of inter-municipal cooperation (IMC) remain complex despite extensive research. This study examines why and when municipalities engage in IMC across multiple services. Using data from Catalonia ...
Multicointegration, polynomial cointegration and I(2) cointegration with structural breaks. An application to the sustainability of the US external deficit
In this paper we model the multicointegration relation, allowing for one structural break. Since multicointegration is a particular case of polynomial or I(2) cointegration, our proposal can also be applied in these cases. ...
Redistribution and development in Latin America: A quantile regression approach
This study examines the relationship between redistributive efforts and human development in 12 Latin American countries over the period 2000–2021. With the aim of evaluating the link between both variables throughout the ...
Energy Firms in Emerging Markets: Systemic Risk and Diversification Opportunities
Previous studies in energy stock markets have analyzed market connectedness using aggregate indexes and focusing on developed markets. We depart from the extant literature and we focus our attention on companies listed on ...
Spillovers from the United States to Latin American and G7 stock markets: A VAR quantile analysis [WP]
We estimate multivariate quantile models to measure the responses of the six main Latin American (LA) stock markets to a shock in the United States (US) stock index. We compare the regional responses with those of seven ...
