UB Economics (ERE): Recent submissions
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Inequality and Structural Change under Non-Linear Engels' Curve
We analyze the relationship between income inequality and structural change in the sectoral composition of the tradable and the non-tradable sectors. We construct a small open economy two sector model where preferences ...
Evidence on the complex link between
Most studies analysing the infrastructure impact on regional growth show a positive relationship between both variables. However, the public capital elasticity estimated in a Cobb-Douglas function, which is the most common ...
An agency-oriented model to explain vine-growing specialization in the province of Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain) in the mid-nineteenth century
[cat] En aquest treball presentem un model per explicar el procés d’especialització vitícola assolit als municipis de la província de Barcelona, a mitjans del s. XIX,que cerca entendre com va sorgir històricament un avantatge ...
Extending the Kuznets Curve
[cat] Les darreres dècades s’han caracteritzat per un intens augment de les desigualtats salarials a nivell mundial. Aquest article allarga la hipòtesi clàssica de la Corba de Kuznets per cobrir les economies post-industrials ...
On the industry experience premium and labor mobility [WP]
[cat] Hi ha evidència que l'experiència es remunera diferentment segons la indústria. Proposem un model teòric que explica aquestes diferències. Suposem que la mobilitat de treballadors aporta coneixement extern a l'empresa ...
Reconciling marginalism with the core in two-sided markets with money
In two-sided markets with money, core stability and marginalism are often in conflict. We reconcile them with two main results. First, we show that in the assignment game (Shapley & Shubik, 1972), the Banzhaf value is core ...
The determinants of CAP reform: learning from the European financial crisis and CAP 2013
There is an ongoing debate on which are the determinants of CAP reform. The economic environment has not been contemplated as a direct determinant of CAP reform but its proxy, the budget, has not only been looked at as ...
Gender and family firms: an interdisciplinary approach
This study contributes to developing our understanding of gender and family business, a topic so crucial to recent policies about competitive growth. It does so by providing an interdisciplinary synthesis of some major ...
Is there a connection between the tax administration and the political power?
This paper offers empirical evidence from Spain of a connection between the tax administration and the political power. Firstly, the regional tax administration is not immune to the budgetary situation of regional government, ...
European Energy Market Integration: Efficiency Improvements in Electricity Producing Firms
In this paper, we review and use different methods to measure and compare efficiency scores in energy producing plants. In particular, we use non-parametric and parametric techniques. We focus our attention in electricity ...
Generational effects on adult height in individual heterogeneity
As adult height is a well-established retrospective measure of health and standard of living, it is important to understand the factors that determine it. Among them, the influence of socio-environmental factors has been ...
The international competitiveness of cava : success of a particular firm or the district?
[spa] En primer lugar el autor se pregunta qué es lo que exactamente significa la palabra éxito aplicada al caso de la evolución reciente de la industria catalana del cava. La comparación de las trayectorias seguidas por ...
The origins of "Made in Spain fashion". The competitive advantage of the textile, apparel and footwear districts since the Golden Age
[cat] Aquest article explora les fonts de l’avantatge competitiu dels districtes industrials espanyols especialitzats en productes tèxtils, confecció i calçat. Posa de manifest que la majoria de les principals empreses ...
The First privatization : selling SOEs and privatizing public monopolies in fascist Italy, 1922-1925
[cat] El primer govern feixista d’Itàlia va aplicar una política de privatització a gran escala entre 1922 i 1925. El govern va privatitzar el monopoli estatal de llumins, el monopoli estatal d’assegurances de vida, va ...
The determinants of social spending in Spain, 1950-1980, Are dictatorships less redistributive?
[spa] La mayoría de estudios sobre el Estado del Bienestar, hasta el momento, se han centrado en países democráticos y ricos. Sin embargo, los países pobres y no democráticos han recibido mucha menos atención. Este artículo ...
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 ...
¿Son excesivamente suaves las series de contabilidad nacional trimestral?
Este trabajo analiza si las series de Contabilidad Nacional Trimestral de España son excesivamente suaves y, por lo tanto, si son realmente informativas de la evolución de la economía española a corto plazo. Mediante la ...
Testing for hysteresis in unemployment in OECD countries: new evidence using stationarity panel tests with breaks
This paper tests hysteresis effects in unemployment using panel data for 19 OECD countries covering the period 1956-2001. The tests exploit the cross-section variations of the series, and additionally, allow for a diferent ...
Individual prediction of automobile bodily injury claims liabilities
[spa] La mayoría de siniestros con daños corporales se liquidan mediante negociación, llegando a juicio menos del 5% de los casos. Una estrategia de negociación bien definida es, por tanto, fundamental para las compañías ...
