UB Economics (ERE): Enviaments recents
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The long run development of Chile and the Natural Resources curse. Linkages, policy and growth, 1850-1950
This chapter analyses the effects of Natural Resources on the Chilean economy in the long run -1850-1950-. Specifically, the authors focus their attention on the mining cycles -nitrates and copper- and their impact on the ...
Introducing media in a model of electoral competition with candidate quality
This work proposes and studies a two candidate model of electoral competition with candidate quality and media. The role of media is to inform voters about the quality of each candidate. We assume that there are two ...
The nucleolus of the assignment game. Structure of the family
We show that the family of assignment matrices which give rise to the same nucleolus forms a compact join-semilattice with one maximal element. The above family is in general not a convex set, but path-connected.
Welfare spending and ethnic heterogeneity. Evidence from a massive immigration wave
[spa] En este trabajo se analiza la relación entre la heterogeneidad étnica y la redistribución, utilizando la reciente y masiva llegada de inmigrantes a España. En concreto, se estudia el efecto de los cambios en la ...
The induced 2-tuple linguistic generalized OWA operator and its application in linguistic decision making
[spa] Se presenta el operador de media ponderada ordenada generalizada lingüística de 2 tuplas inducida (2-TILGOWA). Es un nuevo operador de agregación que extiende los anteriores modelos a través de utilizar medias ...
Efectos regionales de la política monetaria : implicaciones para los países de la zona euro
De acuerdo con la teoría de las áreas monetàrias óptimas,los shocks asimétricos tienen un papel fundamental en la determinación de los beneficios y los costes derivados del establecimiento de una área monetaria. En este ...
Structural change and female participation in recent economic growth: A multisectoral analysis for the Spanish economy
Economic growth has different impacts on gender gaps. Despite that the incorporation of women into the labour market drove towards a convergence with male participation in recent decades, a notable gender pay gap still ...
Macroeconomic costs of gender gaps in a model with household production and entrepreneurship
This paper examines the quantitative effects of gender gaps in entrepreneurship and workforce participation in an occupational choice model with a household sector. Gender gaps in entrepreneurship affect negatively both ...
Political viability of intergenerational transfers. An empirical application
Public intergenerational transfers (IGTs) may arise because of the failure of private arrangements to provide optimal economic resources for the young and the old. We examine the political sustainability of the system of ...
Investment Specific Technology Shocks and Emerging Market Business Cycle Dynamics [WP]
[eng] This article explores the role of investment specific technology shocks for emerging market business cycle fluctuations. The analysis is motivated by two key empirical facts; the presence of investment specific ...
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 ...
Decomposing Cross-Country Gaps in Obesity and Overweight: Does the Social Environment Matter?
[cat] Una qüestió clau sobre la producció de salut relativament poc explorada es refereix a la influència dels factors socioeconòmics i mediambientals sobre el pes i l’obesitat. Aquesta problemàtica adquireix particular ...
El mercado de trabajo español en la unión monetaria : flexibilidad de salarios y política laboral
La baja movilidad espacial de la mano d'obra y la incapacidad estabilizadora del presupuesto comunitario como mecanismos de ajuste alternativos a la política monetaria y al tipo de cambio exigen que el mercado de trabajo ...
Term structure of interest rates. European financial integration
In this paper we estimate, analyze and compare the term structures of interest rates in six different countries over the period 1992-2004. We apply the Nelson-Siegel model to obtain the term structures of interest rates ...
Modelos de tasas de interes en Chile: una revisión
Con este trabajo revisamos los Modelos de niveles de las tasas de intereses en Chile. Además de los Modelos de Nivel tradicionales por Chan, Karoly, Longstaff y Lijadoras (1992) en EE. UU, y Parisi (1998) en Chile, por el ...
Public health expenditure and spatial interactions in a decentralized national health system
One of the limitations of cross-country health expenditure analysis refers to the fact that the financing, the internal organization and political restraints of health care decision-making are country-specific and ...
Empirical study on costs and incomes of organic farming
This paper conducts an empirical study on output, costs and incomes in organic farming with a sample of Spanish firms. Financial accounting data reveals that organic and partly or transitional to organic farming do not get ...
An eclectic third generation model of financial and exchange rate crises
[cat] En aquest treball es presenta un model eclèctic que sistematitza la dinàmica de les crisis que s’autoconfimen, usant els principals aspectes de les tres tipologies dels models de crisis canviàries de tercera generació, ...
Emergence and development of a financial cluster: the evolution of Andorra’s banking deposits in the long-term, 1931-2007
This paper explores the origins of Andorra’s financial cluster. It shows that the free movement of currency, the protection of infant industry, and geographical concentration lie at the foundation of the cluster’s competitive ...
