Institut de Recerca en Economia Aplicada Regional i Pública (IREA): Recent submissions
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Risk of hospitalization of diagnosed COVID-19 cases during the pandemic: a time-series analsys to unveil short- and long run dynamics [WP]
Objectives: With the outbreak of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, the unprecedented rise in demand for hospital care brought health Systems worldwide to the brink of collapse. The dynamics of the COVID-19 pandemic have alternated ...
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) ...
Mixed Oligopoly and Market Power Mitigation: Evidence from the Colombian Wholesale Electricity Market
Using information on price bids in wholesale electricity pools and empirical techniques described in the literature on electricity markets, this study identifies the market power mitigation effect of public firms in the ...
Seeking price and macroeconomic stabilisation in the euro area:The role of house prices and stock prices
We propose an Economic Stability Index (ESI) incorporating house prices and stock prices as components of the measure of the inflation rate in order to allow the European Central Bank (ECB) to achieve both price and ...
Does economic complexity reduce the probability of a fiscal crisis?
Higher economic complexity of a country reduces the probability of suffering a fiscal crisis between 46% and 57%. Along with institutional factors, complexity is shown to be sufficient to describe the risk of facing episodes ...
Fiscal crises and climate change
Climate change adaptation depends crucially on the fiscal space of countries. The historical accumulation of high debt levels among emerging and low-income developing countries, which are disproportionately affected by ...
Prediction of individual automobile RBNS claim reserves in the context of Solvency II
Automobile bodily injury (BI) claims remain unsettled for a long time after the accident. The estimation of an accurate reserve for Reported But Not Settled (RBNS) claims is therefore vital for insurers. In accordance with ...
Infrastructure and nation building: The regulation and financing of network transportation infrastructures in Spain (1720-2010)
This paper analyzes Spanish infrastructure policy since the early 1700s: Road building in the eighteenth century, railway creation and expansion in the nineteenth, motorway expansion in the twentieth, and high speed rail ...
Introducing and enhancing competition to improve solid waste management in Barcelona [WP]
Over the last two decades, Barcelona has implemented a far-reaching reform of the city’s solid waste management. In 2000, the city was divided in four zones, with four separate solid waste collection contracts being ...
Discrete distributions when modeling the disability severity score of motor victims
Many European states apply score systems to evaluate the disability severity of non-fatal motor victims under the law of third-party liability. The score is a non-negative integer with an upper bound at 100 that increases ...
Internet Banking in Europe: a comparative analysis
A key strategic issue for banks is the implementation of internet banking. The ‘click and mortar’ model that complements classical branch banking with online facilities is competing with pure internet banks. The objective ...
Does geographical exposure to language learning centres matter in a bilingual city?
In this paper, we investigate the effects of geographical exposure to local language training centres in a bilingual urban labour market, the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona, exploiting the implementation of a language ...
Factors affecting hospital admission and recovery stay duration of in-patient motor victims in Spain
Hospital expenses are a major cost driver of healthcare systems in Europe, with motor injuries being the leading mechanism of hospitalizations. This paper investigates the injury characteristics which explain the hospitalization ...
Local privatization, intermunicipal cooperation, transaction costs and political interests: Evidence from Spain
Several empirical studies have analyzed the factors that influence local privatization. Variables related to fiscal stress, cost reduction, political processes and ideological attitudes are the most common explanatory ...
Cambios en la distribución salarial en españa, 1995-2002. efectos a través del tipo de contrato
En este trabajo analizamos los cambios en la distribución salarial en España entre 1995 y 2002, utilizando la información contenida en la Encuesta de Estructura Salarial. El análisis revela un notable cambio en la distribución ...
Difference-in-Difference models to estimate causal effects on auto insurers behavior
The Difference-in-Difference (DiD) method is useful to test if an event has effects in a given outcome using non-experimental data. Based on DiD method, we propose alternative panel models to estimate the causal effects ...
Population density in aging societies and severity of motor vehicle crash injuries: the case of Spain
The concentration of population in cities and processes of rural depopulation coupled with the generational shift to older societies represent new challenges in road safety. Here, we examine the severity of injuries suffered ...
Productivity and innovation spillovers: Micro evidence from Spain
This article analyses the impact that innovation expenditure and intrasectoral and intersectoral externalities have on productivity in Spanish firms. While there is an extensive literature analysing the relationship between ...
Regional borders, local unemployment and happiness [WP]
In this paper we provide novel evidence on the effect of local unemployment rate on life satisfaction. We investigate how changes in unemployment rate in local administrative areas affect subjective well-being in Germany, ...
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 ...
