Institut de Recerca en Economia Aplicada Regional i Pública (IREA): Enviaments recents
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Multiple-input multiple-output vs. single-input single-output neural network forecasting
This study attempts to improve the forecasting accuracy of tourism demand by using the existing common trends in tourist arrivals form all visitor markets to a specific destination in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) ...
Tourism demand forecasting with different neural networks models
This paper aims to compare the performance of different Artificial Neural Networks techniques for tourist demand forecasting. We test the forecasting accuracy of three different types of architectures: a multi-layer ...
Economía urbana y calidad de vida. Una revisión del estado del conocimiento en España
Quality of life is increasingly becoming a concept researched empirically and theoretically in the field of economics. In urban economics in particular, this increasing interest stems mainly from the fact that quality of ...
Agglomeration, Inequality and Economic Growth (WP)
The impact of income inequality on economic growth is dependent on several factors, including the time horizon considered, the initial level of income and its initial distribution. Yet, as growth and inequality are also ...
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 ...
Technological cooperation and R&D outsourcing at the firm level: The role of the regional context
Much has been said about the role that technological networking activities play on the innovative performance of firms, but little is known about the relevance of the context where the firm is locate shaping the efficiency ...
Innovation, heterogeneous firms, and the region [WP]
This paper investigates the role of regional determinants on innovation performance controlling by the firm’s absorptive capacity and other sources of firm heterogeneity. The findings for a sample of firms in Spain support ...
Measuring the impact of ride-hailing firms on urban congestion: The case of Uber in Europe
This paper examines the impact of Uber, the world's largest ride-hailing firm, on congestion. Drawing on data from European cities for the period 2008 through 2016, I find a negative impact of Uber on congestion. The ...
Export Destination and Firm Upgrading: Evidence from Spain
This paper examines the role of export destinations on firm upgrading. I exploit the real effective exchange rate devaluation in Spain during the Great Recession to identify the unusual export performance of manufacturing ...
Decomposing the Rural-Urban Differential in Student Achievement in Colombia Using PISA Microdata
Despite the large number of studies that draw on Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) microdata in their analyses of the determinants of educational outcomes, no more than a few consider the relevance of ...
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 ...
Job loss among immigrant and native workers: evidence from Spain's economic downturn
The profound crisis that has affected the Spanish economy since mid - 2008 has been characterized by significant job losses and a marked rise in the country´s unemployment rate. However, unemployment has had a differential ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
La distribución regional de la temporalidad en españa. Análisis de sus determinantes
Este trabajo aporta evidencia empírica acerca de los factores determinantes de las diferencias en la probabilidad de acceder a un contrato indefinido entre las distintas regiones españolas. Para ello, y de forma novedosa ...
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 ...
Navigating the Precarious Path: Understanding the Dualisation of the Italian Labour Market through the Lens of Involuntary Part-Time Employment (WP)
This paper investigates the surge in Involuntary Part-Time (IPT) employment in Italy from 2004 to 2019, exploring its impact on various socio-economic groups and adopting a spatial perspective. Our study tests the hypothesis ...
An analysis of the determinants in economics and business publications by spanish universities between 1994 and 2004 (WP)
The objective of this study consists, firstly, of quantifying differences between Spanish universities’ output (in terms of publications and citations), and secondly, analysing its determinants. The results obtained show ...
