Institut de Recerca en Economia Aplicada Regional i Pública (IREA): Recent submissions
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Graduate migration in Spain: the impact of the great recession on a low mobility country
This work studies the impact that the Great Recession has had on the migration of graduates in Spain, a country with low international mobility for graduates but where push factors associated to the crisis have probably ...
The Economic Cost of A Hurricane: A Case Study of Puerto Rico and Hurricane Georges 1998 Using Synthetic Control Method
The aim of this study is to evaluate the long–term effect of a hurricane in the output of a country. The study estimates the effects of Hurricane Georges on Puerto Rico in 1998 using aggregated level data. To do ...
Internet Banking in Europe: a comparative analysis
A key strategic issue for banks is the implementation of internet banking. The ‘click and mortar’ model that complements classical branch banking with online facilities is competing with pure internet banks. The objective ...
Price Bubbles in Lithium Markets around the World
The global energy transition to low-carbon technologies for transportation is heavily dependent on lithium. By leveraging the latest advances in timeseries econometrics we show that lithium prices (carbonate and hydroxide) ...
Geographical distribution of the COVID-19 pandemic across waves in Spain
This paper pursues a deep insight in the evolution of the spatial distribution of the pandemic in the Spanish provinces along the six waves. Through the use of spatial exploratory techniques, we observe that the geographical ...
Does economic complexity reduce the probability of a fiscal crisis?
Higher economic complexity of a country reduces the probability of suffering a fiscal crisis between 46% and 57%. Along with institutional factors, complexity is shown to be sufficient to describe the risk of facing episodes ...
In-group bias in preferences for redistribution: a survey experiment in Italy
Using a new survey and experimental data, we investigate how information on inequality and immigration affect preferences for redistribution in Italy. Our randomized treatments show that preferences for redistribution are ...
