Institut de Recerca en Economia Aplicada Regional i Pública (IREA): Enviaments recents
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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 ...
Quality and Environmental Management Systems as Business Tools to Enhance ESG Performance: A Cross-Regional Empirical Study
The growing societal and political focus on sustainability at global level is pressurizing companies to enhance their environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance to satisfy respective stakeholder needs and ensure ...
General Equilibrium Long-Run Determinants for Spanish FDI: A Spatial Panel Data Approach
While general equilibrium theories of trade stress the role of third-country effects, little work has been done in the empirical foreign direct investment (FDI) literature to test such spatial linkages. This paper aims to ...
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 ...
Uncovering the time-varying relationship between commonality in liquidity and volatility [WP]
This study examines the dynamic linkages between commonality in liquidity in international stock markets and market volatility. Using a recently proposed liquidity measure as input in a variance decomposition exercise, we ...
Expected, unexpected, good and bad aggregate uncertainty
We study aggregate uncertainty and its linear and nonlinear impact on real and financial markets. By distinguishing between four general notions of aggregate uncertainty (good-expected, bad-expected, good-unexpected, ...
Minimum wages, youth employment and spatial spillovers: New evidence for Spain
The effect of minimum wages increases on youth employment level has been extensively analysed, but recent contributions have highlighted the potential bias in these studies due to neglected spatial autocorrelation in the ...
Has concentration evolved similarly in manufacturing and services? A sensitivity analysis
Our first objective is to compare the degree of concentration in manufacturing and services, with special emphasis on its evolution in these two sectors, using a sensitivity analysis for different concentration indices and ...
Regional variability in the impact of human capital on regional growth
The first objective of this study is to furnish new evidence concerning the aggregate profitability of the accumulation of human capital. In addition to the traditional measure of the return to human capital, combining the ...
Task Trade and its determinants in Spain: a national and regional analysis
Globalisation and technological advances have made possible to offshore specific productive tasks (that do not require physical proximity to the actual location of the work unit) to foreign countries where these are usually ...
Education and Ethnic Intermarriage: Evidence from Higher Education Expansion in Indonesia [WP]
In this paper, we analyse the effect of educational attainments on interethnic marriages in Indonesia, a multi-ethnic emerging country. The empirical analysis is based on data from the Java Island obtained from the 2014 ...
If you want me to stay, pay
Devolution of political power is constantly on the political agenda in both Italy and Spain. Fiscal policy in these countries has granted specific privileges to some regions. Valle d’Aosta/Vallée d’Aoste,(VdA) and País ...
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 ...
