Institut de Recerca en Economia Aplicada Regional i Pública (IREA): Envíos recientes
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Research networks and inventors’ mobility as drivers of innovation evidence from Europe
We investigate the importance of the labour mobility of inventors, as well as the scale, extent and density of their collaborative research networks, for regional innovation outcomes. To do so, we apply a knowledge production ...
Indicators for the characterization of discrete Choquet integrals
Ordered weighted averaging (OWA) operators and their extensions are powerful tools used in numerous decision-making problems. This class of operator belongs to a more general family of aggregation operators, understood as ...
How systemic is Spain for Europe?
We use the forecast-error variance decompositions from a VAR with daily sovereign bonds spreads since 2000 to detail the linkages between EU sovereign bond markets and banks over time. Using new summary statistics on the ...
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 ...
Unveiling the underlying severity of múltiple pandèmic indicators [WP]
Objective: Multiple interconnected key metrics are frequently available to track the pandemic progression and one of the difficulties health planners face is determining which provides the best description of the status ...
EU-15 sovereign governments’ cost of borrowing after seven years of monetary union
Yield spreads over 10-year German government securities of the EU-15 countries converged dramatically in the seven years after the beginning of Monetary Integration. In this paper, we investigate the relative influence ...
Fiscal policy and interest rates: the role of financial and economic integration
It is commonly believed that a fiscal expansion raises interest rates. However, these crowding out effects of deficits have been found to be small or non-existent. One explanation is that financial integration offsets ...
A correlation sensitivity analysis of non-life underwriting risk in solvency capital requirement estimation [WP]
This paper analyses the impact of using different correlation assumptions between lines of business when estimating the risk-based capital reserve, the Solvency Capital Requirement -SCR-, under Solvency II regulations. A ...
The First Privatization Policy in a Democracy: Selling State-Owned Enterprises in 1948-1950, Puerto Rico
In the 1940s, when the Governor of Puerto Rico was appointed by the US President and the Puerto Rican government was answerable only to the US Federal government, a large state-owned enterprise (SOE) sector was established ...
Tourism and Exports as a means of Growth
This study expands existing research by considering both exports and tourism as potential influencing factors for economic growth. While trade of goods has been proven as a means of growth for countries, inbound tourism ...
El impacto económico del Covid-19 sobre el sector turístico español
El objetivo general del documento es el estudiar el impacto de la pandemia sobre el sector turístico y la economía en general mediante un análisis comparado entre la evolución realmente observada en el sector en los años ...
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 ...
One more lie: the Monday effect in Spain’s retail petrol market
Empirical evidence drawn from the economic literature points to a low level of competition in the retail petrol market. Similar evidence can be found for the Spanish market. In fact, both Spain’s antitrust authority -Comisión ...
What hurts the dominant airlines at hub airports?
This paper estimates a frequency equation to explain the determinants of network airline service levels at their hub airports. Drawing on European data for 2002 - 2013, we find that network airlines reduce frequencies when ...
Does decentralization affect local entrepreneurial capacity?
In recent decades, decentralization has become a prominent topic in both academic and political discussions, with research increasingly focusing on its implications for economic development. This paper explores a specific ...
Assessing agglomeration economies in a spatial framework with endogenous regressors (2009)
This paper is concerned with the influence of agglomeration economies on economic outcomes across British regions. The concentration of economic activity in one place can foster economic performance due to the reduction ...
Location Patterns of Creative Capital and Regional Disparities in Spain
The creative class as a source of growth has been afforded increasing attention in recent years. However, creative people are not distributed evenly across space, tending rather to concentrate in particular locations. The ...
A missing spatial link in institutional quality
History tells that institutions evolve gradually over time, pushing new ideas across borders and cultures. Globalisation is argued to accelerate this process. We examine the spatial links of different political institutions ...
Does Rigidity of Prices Hide Collusion?
Cartel detection is one of the most basic and most complicated tasks of competition authorities. In recent years, however, variance filters have provided a fairly simple tool for rejecting the existence of price-fixing, ...
Who pollutes more? Gender differences in consumptions patterns
Recent behavioral literature shows that we can identify differences between women and men in diverse domains in a general context, such as empathy, social preferences and reaction towards competitiveness, risk aversion, ...
