UB Economics (ERE): Enviaments recents
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Spain and the classical gold standard. Short-And long-Term analyses
This paper seeks to link the two theories put forward to explain (the consequences of) Spain’s decision not to adopt the gold standard in the late nineteenth century, and does so by comparing the outcomes of short- and ...
El desempleo español : factores estructurales
El paro es uno de los problemas más importantes de la economía española y del resto de economías europeas. Un posible análisis, ampliamente extendido en la literatura reciente, considera el desajuste existente entre la ...
Consumption, investment and life insurance strategies with heterogeneous discounting
[cat] En aquest treball s'analitza l'efecte que comporta l'introducció de preferències inconsistents temporalment sobre les decisions òptimes de consum, inversió i compra d'assegurança de vida. En concret, es pretén recollir ...
Factor shares, the price markup, and the elasticity of substitution between capital and labor
[spa] La participación del trabajo en la renta nacional es constante bajo los supuestos de una función de producción Cobb-Douglas y competencia perfecta. En este artículo se relajan estos supuestos y se investiga si el ...
The Impact of Monetary Union on EU-15 Sovereign Debt Yield Spreads
With European Monetary Union (EMU), there was an increase in the adjusted spreads (corrected from the foreign exchange risk) of euro participating countries' sovereign securities over Germany and a decrease in those of ...
Wages and prices in early Catalan industrialisation
Catalonia was the only Mediterranean region among the early followers of the British Industrial Revolution in the second third of the nineteenth century. The roots of this industrialisation process can be traced back to ...
Aggregate monotonic stable single-valued solutions for cooperative games
[cat] En aquest treball caracteritzem les solucions puntuals de jocs cooperatius d'utilitat transferible que compleixen selecció del core i monotonia agregada. També mostrem que aquestes dues propietats són compatibles amb ...
Technology of the preferences: linking consumption expenditures to value added with minimal information
The combination of consumption data from expenditure surveys with information contained in IO tables is a crucial step to structural change analysis. Herrendorf et al. (2013) focus the attention on applying a consistent ...
Industrial Policy and the Timing of Trade Liberalization
In a closed (open) economy with a learning-by-doing externality in the manufacturing sector, Matsuyama (1992) found a positive (negative) link between the level of agricultural productivity and economic growth. We extend ...
Trade in Information Technologies and Changes in the Demand for Occupations [WP]
I use data from the World Input-Output Database and show that trade in information technologies (IT) has a significant contribution to the growth in foregin intermediate goods in 2001-2014 period. China has become one of ...
Els Factors competitius de les pimes a Catalunya
El principal objectiu d'aquest estudi és reflectir quins són els principals factors competitius per a les pymes a Catalunya. Per això, es va escollir una mostra de 1000 empreses de diferents sectors i amb els límits que ...
Buy-and-Hold Strategies and Comonotonic Approximations
[cat] En aquest article estudiem estratègies “comprar i mantenir” per a problemes d’optimitzar la riquesa final en un context multi-període. Com que la riquesa final és una suma de variables aleatòries dependents, on ...
Growth and externalities across economies : an empirical analysis using spatial econometrics
Recent theoretical models of economic growth have emphasised the role of external effects on the accumulation of factors of production. Although most of the literature has considered the externalities across firms within ...
Specialisation in Europe and asymmetric shocks: potential risks of EMU
Most optimistic views, based on Optimum Currency Areas (OCA) literature, have concluded that the probability of asymmetric shocks to occur at a national level will tend to diminish in the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU)as ...
The Role of Trade in the Structural Transformations of South Korea and the United Kingdom
[cat] El comerç internacional en béns agrícoles té el potencial d'accelerar la transformació estructural dels països amb baixa productivitat agrícola perquè els dóna la possiblitat d'importar aliments. L'objectiu d'aquest ...
An analysis of inflation rates in the European Union using wavelets : strong evidence against unit roots
In this paper we assume inflation rates in European Union countries may in fact be fractionally integrated. Given this assumption, we obtain estimations of the order of integration by means a method based on wavelets ...
Power Indices and Minimal Winning Coalitions in Simple Games with Externalities
We propose a generalization of simple games to sit uations with coalitional externalities. The main novelty of our generalization is a monotonicity property that we define for games in partition function form. This property ...
The Cycle of Rents: a Model of Rational Bull-and-Bear Cycles in an Efficient Market
A widespread misbelief asserts that an efficient market would arbitrage out any cyclical or otherwise partially-predictable, non-random-walk pattern on the observed market prices time series. Hence, when such patterns are ...
The extreme core allocations of the assignment game
Although assignment games are hardly ever convex, in this paper a characterization of their set or extreme points of the core is provided, which is also valid for the class of convex games. For each ordering in the player ...
Trimestralización y conciliación de magnitudes económicas : una ampliación del método Chow-Lin
Una de las herramientas estadísticas más importantes para el seguimiento y análisis de la evolución de la actividad económica a corto plazo es la disponibilidad de estimaciones de la evolución trimestral de los componentes ...
