UB Economics (ERE): Recent submissions
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Hay competencia en el mercado europeo de transporte aéreo?: el caso español
La liberalización del transporte aéreo que se llevó a término en la Unión Europea a principios de los años noventa ha tenido efectos positivos sobre el bienestar del viajero. No obstante, existe un consenso en la literatura ...
Why do university graduates regret their study program? A comparison between Spain and the Netherlands [WP]
[cat] En aquest article investiguem els factors que porten a universitaris espanyols i holandesos a lamentar els estudis cursats. Espanya i Holanda tenen un sistema educatiu molt diferent en termes de la rigidesa de ...
Una aproximación a la manipulación de los resultados en las PYMES españolas
[spa] Esta comunicación investiga la manipulación de resultados en las pymes españolas en el período 2000-2008. Se trabaja con dos muestras de empresas (solventes e insolventes) y el proceso seguido ha consistido en recoger ...
Complementarity between human capital and trade in regional technological progress
The effect of openness and trade orientation on economic growth remains a highly contentious issue in the literature. Trade facilitates the spread of knowledge and the adoption of more advanced and efficient technologies, ...
Parents’ Investments and Education Returns
[cat] Aquest article analitza la relació entre els ingressos dels pares i l’educació dels seus fills. En un context d’altruïsme perfecte, el model descriu les decisions dels pares sobre quant consumir i quant invertir en ...
The mechanisms of agglomeration: Evidence from the effect of inter-industry relations on the location of new firms
The objective of this paper is to explore the relative importance of each of Marshall's agglomeration mechanisms by examining the location of new manufacturing firms in Spain. In particular, we estimate the count of new ...
Aggregate Costs of Gender Gaps in the Labor Market: A Quantitative Estimate [WP]
This paper examines the quantitative effects of gender gaps in entrepreneurship and labor force participation on aggregate productivity and income per capita. We simulate an occupational choice model with heterogeneous ...
A Note on Shapley's convex measure games
L. S. Shapley, in his paper 'Cores of Convex Games', introduces Convex Measure Games, those that are induced by a convex function on R, acting over a measure on the coalitions. But in a note he states that if this function ...
Quality Polarization and International Trade
This paper builds a model that examines firm heterogeneity across two dimensions: productivity and quality. We show that when firms are able to choose their input quality and there exists a negative relationship between a ...
Unconventional Determinants of Greenhouse Gas Emissions: The Role of Trust
[cat] Les normes socials han estat incloses en la teoria de l’acció col.lectiva per a superar les dificultats per explicar perquè la gestió del béns comuns podria ser més efectiva quan s’autoregula per les mateixes comunitats. ...
Spanish unemployment : normative versus analytical regionalisation procedures
In applied regional analysis, statistical information is usually published at different territorial levels with the aim providing inforamtion of interest for different potential users. When using this information, there ...
Are commuting and residential mobility decisions simultaneous? : the case of Catalonia (Spain)
In this paper we study the commuting and moving decisions of workers in Catalonia (Spain) and its evolution in the 1986-1996 period. Using a microdata sample from the 1991 Spanish Population Census, we estimate a simultaneous, ...
Obesity and the incidence of chronic diseases: a seemingly unrelated probit approach
Western societies can reduce avoidable mortality and morbidity by better understanding the relationship between obesity and chronic disease. This paper examines the joint determinants of obesity and of heart disease, ...
Monetary integration and the cost of borrowing [WP]
With the beginning of the European Monetary Union (EMU), euro-area sovereign securities¿ adjusted spreads over Germany (corrected from the foreign exchange risk) experienced an increase that caused a lower than expected ...
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, ...
Structural change and the income of nations
An increase in the supply of skilled labor has been common across the world. However, despite the rise in skilled labor force, not all countries have achieved high income levels, even when their structural transformation ...
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 ...
Trade policy and regional inequalities
This paper aims to analyse the effects of trade policies in the pattern of regional inequalities within a country. Inspired firstly, by the debate concerning the role of protectionist policies in the settlement of a pattern ...
Gender differences and stereotypes in strategic thinking
Recent literature has emphasized that individuals display varying levels of strategic reasoning. This paper presents ten years worth of experimental data from two countries exploring the existence and endogeneity of gender ...
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 ...
