Institut de Recerca en Economia Aplicada Regional i Pública (IREA): Recent submissions
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Remunicipalization of Local Public Services: Policy Drivers and Changing Prices
Remunicipalization is triggered primarily by disappointment with the outcomes of private management of local public services, but an ideological preference for public management might also play a role. Even though urban ...
Causality and contagion in peripheral EMU public debt markets: a dynamic approach
Our research aims to analyze the causal relationships in the behavior of public debt issued by peripheral member countries of the European Economic and Monetary Union -EMU-, with special emphasis on the recent episodes of ...
Free rides to cleaner air? Examining the impact of massive public transport fare discounts on air quality
We quantify the effect of public transportation fare subsidies on air quality by exploiting the sharp discontinuity in the cost of ridership introduced by policy intervention. We identify this effect by taking advantage ...
Geography of talent and regional differences in Spain
Tentative empirical evidence suggests that the agglomeration of talent contributes to regional development. However, given that talented people are not evenly distributed across regions, this paper seeks to determine how ...
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 ...
Shaping urban traffic patterns through congestion charging : What factors drive success or failure?
Congestion costs are emerging as one of the most important challenges faced by metropolitan planners and transport authorities in first world economies. In US these costs were as high as 78 million dollars in 2005 and are ...
Retos para el análisis y la estimación de la distribución de probabilidad en Big-data
En este documento se describen los principales conceptos relacionados con el ajuste no paramétrico de la distribución de probabilidades cuando se dispone de datos masivos y estos poseen fuerte asimetría a la derecha. En ...
The influence of decision-maker effort and case complexity on appealed rulings subject to multi-categorical selection
This study extends the standard econometric treatment of appellate court outcomes by 1) considering the role of decision-maker effort and case complexity, and 2) adopting a multi-categorical selection process of appealed ...
Effects of unit-based pricing on the waste collection demand: a meta - regression analysis
We perform a meta - analysis of 21 studies that estimate the elasticity of the price of waste collection demand upon waste quantities, a prior literature review having revealed that the price elasticity differs markedly. ...
Sovereigns and banks in the euro area : a tale of two crises
This study attempts to identify and trace inter-linkages between sovereign and banking risk in the euro area. To this end, we use an indicator of banking risk in each country based on the Contingent Claim Analysis literature, ...
Measuring and assessing economic uncertainty
This paper evaluates the dynamic response of economic activity to shocks in agents’ perception of uncertainty. The study focuses on the comparison between manufacturers 'and consumers' perception of economic uncertainty. ...
Regional wage gaps, education, and informality in an emerging country. The case of Colombia [WP]
This paper uses Colombian micro-data to analyze the role of education and informality on regional wage differentials. Our hypothesis is that apart from differences in the endowment of human capital across regions, regional ...
The benefits of PSM: an oasis or a mirage? [WP]
Scholarly interest in Public Service Motivation has yielded a vast amount of research explicating its benefits for public sector organizations; including increased employee job satisfaction, boosted individual performance, ...
Regional returns to physical capital: are they conditioned by educational attainment?
This paper provides novel empirical evidence of the indirect effect of educational attainment on regional economic growth, through its influence on the profitability of investment in physical capital. We test the hypothesis ...
Misinformation and Misperception in the market for parking
This article studies the level of knowledge and information held by drivers in the car parking market. By drawing on a survey conducted with 576 garage customers in Barcelona, we provide new evidence on the market frictions ...
When one door closes: the impact of the hagwon curfew on the consumption of private tutoring in the Republic of Korea [WP IREA]
The Korean government has struggled against the proliferation of private tutoring for more than four decades. In 2006, state education authorities imposed a restriction on operating hours of hagwon (private tutoring academies ...
Economic determinants of employment sentiment: A socio-demographic analysis for the euro area
In this study we construct quarterly consumer confidence indicators of unemployment for the euro area using as input the consumer expectations for sixteen socio-demographic groups elicited from the Joint Harmonised EU ...
Panel Data Stochastic Convergence Analysis of the Mexican Regions
The stochastic convergence amongst Mexican Federal entities is analyzed in panel data framework. The joint consideration of cross-section dependence and multiple structural breaks is required to ensure that the statistical ...
Skill mismatches in the EU: Immigrants vs. Natives
The objective of this paper is to analyse and explain the factors behind the observed differences in skill mismatches -vertical and horizontal-, between natives and immigrants in EU countries. Using microdata from the 2007 ...
The impact of aging drivers and vehicles on the injury severity of crash victims
Against a general trend of increasing driver longevity, the injuries suffered by vehicle occupants in Spanish road traffic crashes are analyzed by the level of severity of their bodily injuries (BI). Generalized linear ...
