Institut de Recerca en Economia Aplicada Regional i Pública (IREA): Recent submissions
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Regulation of Port Charges in Spain: Global versus Local Competition
This article examines the determinants of traffic volumes and the revenues per tonne generated by Spain’s port authorities. The interest of the study lies on the strong differences between port authorities in a context of ...
The connection between distortion risk measures and ordered weighted averaging operators [WP]
Distortion risk measures summarize the risk of a loss distribution by means of a single value. In fuzzy systems, the Ordered Weighted Averaging (OWA) and Weighted Ordered Weighted Averaging (WOWA) operators are used to ...
Differences in efficiency between Formal and Informal Micro Firms in Mexico
The economic role of micro firms is still the subject of much discussion and debate. While these firms can be seen as potential growth drivers, as they are usually related to entrepreneurship, a relatively high share of ...
Green regions and local firms’ innovation [WP]
Technological innovation is essential to achieve simultaneously economic, environmental and social goals (i.e. the green growth). Indeed, many studies found that environmental innovation spurs overall innovation. However, ...
Incorporating creditors' seniority into contingent claim models: Applicarion to peripheral euro area countries
This paper highlights the role of multilateral creditors (i.e., the ECB, IMF, ESM etc.) and their preferred creditor status in explaining the sovereign default risk of peripheral euro area (EA) countries. Incorporating ...
Measuring early childhood health : a composite index comparing Colombian departments
This paper presents a composite index of early childhood health using a multivariate statistical approach. The index shows how child health varies across Colombian departments, -administrative subdivisions-. In recent years ...
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 ...
Recovery Risk and Labor Costs in Public-Private Partnerships : Contractual Choice in the US Water industry
We use an ordered logistic model to empirically examine the factors that explain varying degrees of private involvement in the U.S. water sector through public-private partnerships. Our estimates suggest that a variety of ...
Currency and commodity return relationship under extreme geopolitical risks: Evidence from the invasion of Ukraine
We examine the relationship between currency and commodity returns around the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. We find that the expected positive contemporaneous relationship between currency and commodity returns ...
Tracking economic growth by evolving expectations via genetic programming: A two-step approach
The main objective of this study is to present a two-step approach to generate estimates of economic growth based on agents’ expectations from tendency surveys. First, we design a genetic programming experiment to derive ...
Has the economic crisis worsened the world-related stress and mental health of temporary workers in Spain? [WP]
This paper analyses the causal effects of temporary employment on work-related stress and mental health before (2006/07) and during the economic crisis (2011/12) and examines whether the economic recession worsened these ...
Let the data do the talking: Empirical modelling of survey-based expectations by means of genetic programming
In this study we use agents’ expectations about the state of the economy to generate indicators of economic activity in twenty-six European countries grouped in five regions (Western, Eastern, and Southern Europe, and ...
What drives regional differences in BMI? Evidence from Spain [WP]
This paper aims to contribute to the debate on the North–South health divide, by disentangling the conditioning factors that account for regional differences in BMI. Based on the Spanish data of the European Health Survey ...
Prediction of the economic cost of individual long-term care in the Spanish population
Pensions together with savings and investments during active life are key elements of retirement planning. Motivation for personal choices about the standard of living, bequest and the replacement ratio of pension with ...
Linguistic skills and the intergenerational transmission of language [WP]
We investigate the pattern of intergenerational transmission of language in a bilingual society. We consider the case of Catalonia, where the two main speech communities, Spanish and Catalan, are of similar sizes, both ...
An evaluation of optimal scale and jurisdiction size to improve efficiency in metropolitan bus systems
Urban bus services operate under concession regime in many cities around the world. Their area boundaries are usually an institutional or administrative legacy, which do not necessarily meet the criteria of optimal ...
Analyzing Wage Differentials by Fields of Study: Evidence from Turkey
This paper analyzes the drivers of wage differences among college graduates who hold a degree in a different field of study. We focus on Turkey, an emerging country that is characterized by a sustained expansion of higher ...
Speed limit laws in America: economics, politics and geography
The regulation of speed limits in the US had been centralized at the federal level since 1974, until decisions were devolved to the states in 1995. However, the centralization debate has reemerged in recent years. Here, ...
Symmetric or asymmetric gasoline prices? A meta-analysis approach
The analysis of price asymmetries in the gasoline market is one of the most studied in the energy economics literature. Nevertheless, the great variability of results makes it very difficult to extract conclusive results ...
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 ...
