UB Economics (ERE): Enviaments recents
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Optimal Disclosure Mandate in Supply Chains
We study a model in which a firm can acquire conclusive evidence about its supplier's social and environmental impacts. We identify the disclosure mandate that maximizes market information. A disclosure mandate determines ...
Algunes reflexions sobre la construcció d'indicadors indirectes pel seguiment de l'activitat industrial regional
En un gran nombre d'economies, l'evolució de la producció industrial s'analitza a partir de la informació sobre el Producte Industrial Brut i/o el Valor Afegit Brut que proporcionen les Comptabilitats Nacionals. A Espanya, ...
Political Accountability and Misinformation
What are the impacts of misinformation on political accountability? We address this question in a political career concerns framework with belief misspecification. In our model, an incumbent politician of an unknown ability ...
The Impact of the Genetic Risk for ADHD on Parental Beakdown
TDAH / ADHD - - Objectives: The literature shows a positive association between children with Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and parental divorce or marital conflicts. This is a significant health ...
Interiority of the optimal population growth rate with endogenous fertility
This paper analyzes the issue of the interiority of the optimal population growth rate in a two-period overlapping generations model with endogenous fertility. Using Cobb-Douglas utility and production functions, we show ...
Financial Incentives to Fertility: From Short to Long Run
Are financial incentives effective in increasing fertility rates? Empirical evidence suggests they are, primarily in the short run (around implementation). Can such policies also increase the total number of children in ...
The complexity of power indices in voting games with incompatible players
We study the complexity of computing the Banzhaf index in weighted voting games with cooperation restricted by an incompatibility graph. With an existing algorithm as a starting point, we use concepts from complexity theory ...
Taxation of Top Incomes and Tax Avoidance
“DP17970 Taxation of Top Incomes and Tax Avoidance”, CEPR Press Discussion Paper No. 17970. https://cepr.org/publications/dp17970
Using the HEGY Procedure When Not All Roots Are Present
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An alternative proof of the characterization of core stability for the assignment game [WP]
Solymosi and Raghavan (2001) characterize the stability of the core of the assignment game by means of a property of the valuation matrix. They show that the core of an assignment game is a von Neumann-Morgenstern stable ...
Worksharing and access discounts in the postal sector with asymmetrics information
This paper analyses the optimal worksharing discount granted to mailers and entrants in a liberalized sector when there is asymmetric information about the Post Office's cost. When the regulator is unable to ascertain which ...
Discounting Arduousness
[cat] Hi ha una literatura creixent que considera desviacions del descompte exponencial estàndar. En aquest article combinem preferències temporalment inconsistents (descompte no constant) amb preferències recursives. ...
Can we identify Walrasian allocations?
[eng] We consider a discrete time, pure exchange infinite horizon economy with two or more consumers and at least one concumption good per period. Within the framework of decentralized mechanisms, we show that for a given ...
Regional integration and specialisation patterns in Spain
The aim of this paper is to analyse how economic integration in Europe has affected industrial geographical concentration in Spain and explain what the driving forces behind industry location are. Firstly, we construct ...
Uncontrolled diabetes and health care utilisation: a bivariate Latent Markov model approach [WP]
While uncontrolled diabetes (UD) or poor glycaemic control is a widespread condition with potentially life-threatening consequences, there is sparse evidence of its effects on health care utilisation. We model the propensities ...
Potencial de mercado y estructura espacial de los salarios en las regiones españolas, 1955-1995
En este artículo se examina la relación existente entre los salarios de las regiones españolas y su potencial de mercado en el período 1955-1995. Se prueba la existencia de una estructura espacial de los salarios, en la ...
Are All Booms and Busts Created Equal? A New Methodology for Understanding Bull and Bear Stock Markets
This paper presents a new non-parametric methodology for the description of the evolution of the asset cycle in the stock market. It uses the empirical distribution of the data; in particular the structures of the tails ...
Leisure Time and the Sectoral Composition of Employment [WP]
We observe the following patterns in the US economy during the period 1965-2015: (i) the rise of the service sector, (ii) the increase in leisure time, and (iii) the increase in recreational services. To display the last ...
Financing public education when altruistic agents have retirement concerns [WP]
[cat]El capital humà i, per tant, l’educació tenen un impacte en el benestar futur de la societat. En aquest treball s’estudia la connexió entre el suport dels votants per una educació pública i les preocupacions sobre la ...
A geometric chracterization of the nucleolus of the assignment game
Maschler et al. (1979) caracteritzen geomètricament la intersecció del kernel i del core en els jocs cooperatius, demostrant que les distribucions que pertanyen a ambdós conjunts es troben en el punt mig d’un cert rang de ...
