Institut de Recerca en Economia Aplicada Regional i Pública (IREA): Recent submissions
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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 ...
In knowledge we trust: learning-by-interacting and the productivity of inventors [WP]
Innovation rarely happens through the actions of a single person. Innovators source their ideas while interacting with their peers, at different levels and with different intensities. In this paper, we exploit a dataset ...
European Government Bond Markets and Monetary Policy Surprises: Returns, Volatility and Integration
In this paper we investigate the response of bond markets to euro area and US monetary policy shocks. Specifically, we analyze the effect of unexpected changes in interest rates implemented by the European Central Bank ...
A different look at the nexus between entrepreneurship and development using GEM data
We propose a new approach for the visual inspection of the dynamic interplay between several determinants of entrepreneurship and other socioeconomic variables. We focused on the evolution of these variables in 23 countries ...
Interdependent Capital Structure Choices and the Macroeconomy
This study shows that capital structure choices of US corporations are interdependent across time. We follow a two-step estimation approach. First, using a large cross-section of firms we estimate year-by-year average ...
Do anti-discrimination laws alleviate labor market duality? Quasi-experimental evidence from Korea
Labor market segmentation is a growing phenomenon in many countries across different continents. In 2007, the Korean government undertook a labor reform prohibiting undue discriminatory treatment against fixed-term, ...
Relatedness, external linkages and innovation
This paper has two main objectives. First, it estimates the impact of related and unrelated variety of European regions’ knowledge structure on their patenting activity. Second, it looks at the role of technological ...
Bank risk behavior and connectedness in EMU countries [WP]
Given the structural differences in banking sector and financial regulation at country level in European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), this paper tries to estimate the banking sector risk behavior at country level. ...
The ability of European regions to diversify in renewable energies: The role of technological relatedness
Despite the global consensus about the growing significance of renewables, the regional drivers of innovation in these unique and novel technologies have been widely neglected in the literature. In this paper, we show that ...
The transition towards semi-autonomoues vehicle insurance: the contribution ofusage-based data
The use of advanced driver assistance systems and the transition towards semi-autonomous vehicles are expected to contribute to a lower frequency of motor accidents and to have a significant impact for the automobile ...
Quantifying sovereign risk in the euro area
The choice of the optimal sovereign risk indicator is crucial in the context of the euro area (EA) countries, which faced a fierce sovereign debt crisis. Traditional indicators of sovereign risk (CDS, bond yields, and ...
Debt-growth linkages in EMU across countries and time horizons
This paper contributes to the literature by empirically examining whether the influence of public debt on economic growth differs between the short and the long run and presents different patterns across euroarea countries. ...
On the impact of European Union Cohesion Policy on regional support for the European project
Cohesion Policy is the main policy tool of the European Union and the backbone of its regional policy. Given its characteristics, it is the EU policy with the greatest impact on the daily life of European citizens and can ...
Human Capital and Regional Wage Gaps
This paper uses micro-level data to analyse the effect of human capital on regional wage differentials. The results for the set of Spanish regions confirm that they differ in the endowment of human capital, but also that ...
Income Inequality and Monetary Policy: An analysis on the Long Run Relation
The distributional effect of monetary policy is estimated in the case of the USA. In order to identify a monetary policy shock, the paper employs contemporaneous restrictions with ex-ante identified monetary policy shocks ...
Does longevity impact the severity of traffic accidents? A comparative study of young-older and old-older drivers [WP]
This article seeks to demonstrate differences in the severity of traffic accidents among two subgroups of older drivers – young-older (65–75) and old-older (75+). Spain, in common with other countries, has recorded an ...
Acute respiratory infection rates in primary care anticipate ICU bed occupancy during COVID-19 waves
Background: Bed occupancy in the ICU is a major constraint to in-patient care during COVID-19 pandemic. Diagnoses of acute respiratory infection (ARI) by general practitioners have not previously been investigated as an ...
Appropriate IPRs, Human Capital Composition and Economic Growth
We generalize a standard technology diffusion model by allowing for IPRs regimes to be endogenously defined by the development level of each country. Also we insert differences in the composition of human capital between ...
The Institutional, Economic and Social Determinants of Local Government Transparency
Interest in public accountability and government transparency is increasing worldwide. The literature on the determinants of transparency is evolving but is still in its early stages. So far, it has typically focused on ...
High-Speed Rail: lessons for policy makers from experiences abroad
In April 2009, the US government unveiled its blueprint for a national network of high-speed passenger rail (HSR) lines aimed at reducing traffic congestion, cutting national dependence on foreign oil and improving rural ...
