UB Economics (ERE): Enviaments recents
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Democracy and primary education spending in Spain, 1902-22
By the turn of the 20th century, nation-building reformers in Spain tried to stimulate schooling expansion to improve (or at least dignify) Spain’s position in the international arena. However, in this paper we find that ...
What Happens When Some Agents Over-Demand in Claims Problems
In claims problems, we explore three characterizations of the constrained equal awards rule based on how allocations respond to an agent increasing its claim. In the first one we ensure that over-demanding by an unsatisfied ...
Stable cores in information graph games [WP]
Stable cores in information graph games Abstract: In an information graph situation, some agents that are connected by an undirected graph can share with no cost some information or technology that can also be obtained ...
Una exploración completa de los costes de servicio de residuos sólidos
La literatura económica sobre los servicios municipales de residuos sólidos en España es muy escasa, aun cuando estos servicios han sido objeto d'intensas reformas organizativas y regulatorias. En esta investigación se ...
Topics, techniques and applications in urban and regional science in the nineties: a bibliometric analysis
The current state of regional and urban science has been much discussed and a number of studies have speculated on possible future trends in the development of the discipline. However, there has been little empirical ...
Human capital and consumation over the live cycle : a synthesis
This paper presents a life cycle model that contains the Becker¿s (1975) and Heckman¿s (1976) models as special cases. Contrary to the previous literature, the model can explain the life cycle hypothesis and the maximum ...
Time consistent Pareto solutions in common access resource gameswith asymmetric players
In the analysis of equilibrium policies in a di erential game, if agents have different time preference rates, the cooperative (Pareto optimum) solution obtained by applying the Pontryagin's Maximum Principle becomes time ...
An implementation of the Vickrey outcome with gross-substitutes
We consider a market with only one seller and many buyers. The seller owns several indivisible objects on sale. Each buyer can receive many objects and has a gross-substitutes valuation for every package of objects. The ...
Cooperative games with size-truncated information (WP)
[Eng] We study the marginal worth vectors and their convex hull, the socalled Weber set, from the original coalitional game and the transformed one, which is called the Weber set of level k. We prove that the core of the ...
Structural Change and Non-Constant Biased Technical Change
Empirical evidence suggests that the differences in rates of technical progress across sectors are time-variant, implying that the bias in technological change is not constant. In this paper, we analyze the implications ...
Firms' ownership, employees' altruism, and competition
The paper investigates how product market competition affects the firms' decision to hire altruistic or selfish employees in a mixed duopoly where a public and a private firm compete against each other on prices and quality. ...
Embodied pollution in Spanish household consumption: a disaggregate analysis
[spa] En este artículo aplicamos un modelo input-output ampliado medioambientalmente para analizar un aspecto específico de la hipótesis de la curva de Kuznets ambiental. El propósito del estudio es analizar si las estructuras ...
Entrepreneurial skills and over-education five years later. A comparison between Spain and the Netherlands
[cat] El fenòmen de la sobre-educació és freqüent i persistent a molts països. En aquest article estudiem el paper de les habilitats emprenedores en evitar la sobre-educació a la primera feina, i en sortir d’una situació ...
Bootstrapping pairs in Distance-Based Regression
La regressió basada en distàncies és un mètode de predicció que consisteix en dos passos: a partir de les distàncies entre observacions obtenim les variables latents, les quals passen a ser els regressors en un model lineal ...
Las relaciones económicas internacionales de la "España Europea"
[eng] Since the year 1986 in which Spain became full member of the European Communities, the quantity and quality of the Spanish international economic relations measured in terms of Balance of Payments have change ...
Sistema fiscal y reforma de la Seguridad Social
El presente trabajo analiza desde un punto de vista cuantitativo, mediante un modelo de equilibrio general de generaciones sucesivas, los efectos sobre la economía española de eliminar el actual sistema de Seguridad Social ...
How Do Aggregate Fluctuations Depend on the Network Structure of the Economy?
[spa] En este artículo, analizamos la volatilidad agregada de una economía estilizada donde los agentes estann conectados en redes. Si hay relaciones estratégicas entre las acciones de los agentes, choques idiosincráticos ...
Wage curves for Spain evidence from the family budget survey
This study explores the existence of a wage curve for Spain. To quantify this relationship for the Spanish economy, we used individual data from the EPF 1990-1991. The results show the presence of a wage curve with an ...
A characterization of a new value and an existing value for cooperative games with levels structure of cooperation
En aquest treball presentem dues caracteritzacions de dos valors diferents en el marc dels jocs coalicionals amb cooperació restringida. Les restriccions són introduïdes com una seqüència finita de particions del conjunt ...
All assignment games with the same core have the same nucleolus
There exist coalitional games with transferable utility which have the same core but different nucleoli. We show that this cannot happen in the case of assignment games. Whenever two assignment games have the same core, ...
