UB Economics (ERE): Recent submissions
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The Data Economy and Polarization on Social Media
This paper studies the incentive of a social media platform (SMP) to increase polarization of its user network. I propose a two-group network model where the SMP earns revenue from user-data driven personalization. The ...
Capital Misallocation and Economic Development in a Dynamic Open Economy
Some countries such as Canada, Italy, and Mexico have experienced a higher growth rate of capital per worker but a lower growth rate for GDP per worker when compared to the United States. This paper tries to reconcile this ...
Queueing games with an endogenous number of machines [WP]
This paper studies queueing problems with an endogenous number of machines with and without an initial queue, the novelty being that coalitions not only choose how to queue, but also on how many machines. For a given ...
Stackelberg competition in groundwater resources with multiple uses
We study a problem of exploitation of a groundwater resource, mainly used for irrigation, in which a water agency is needed in order to manage an exceptional and priority extraction of water for an alternative/new use (e.g. ...
Fertility and migration
Over the past three decades, the drop in fertility rates has been accompanied by high rates of migration in several developing countries. We argue that migration affects fertility negatively in the countries of origin. To ...
Tariffs and industrial location in Ecuador
The theoretical literature has reached no consensus on whether international trade liberalization increases concentration of economic activities within a given country or whether dispersion occurs as the country progressively ...
A ‘smart buy' for all? Unequal and unintended consequences of a messaging program for child education
Through a large-scale household-randomized trial, we document divergent and unintended effects of a SMS-nudge parenting intervention in Ghana. For parents with some exposure to formal schooling, the program supported ...
The Impact of Compulsory Schooling Expansion on Educational Outcomes: The Case of Indonesia
Compulsory schooling reforms have been frequently used for expanding access to higher levels of education. However, these laws may not translate immediately into human capital gains. In this paper, we assess the impact of ...
Regulating a Social Media Platform in the Data Economy
This paper studies regulation of a social media platform (SMP). I consider a user network with data externalities and an SMP that earns revenue from data-based personalized advertising. The SMP offers a price for user data ...
Pre-industrial inequality in Catalonia
This paper analyses economic inequality in Catalonia in the early 18th century using the information contained in cadastral tax records. The data set includes 2,617 male taxpayers distributed across 17 towns in inland ...
Farmers' Adaptive Investments and Groundwater Resource Impact in a Changing Climate
This is a preliminary version of the paper and may be subject to further revisions. Please do not cite without permission from the author(s) Abstract: One of the many effects of Climate Change is increased drought making ...
Lorenz Population Monotonic Allocation Schemes for TU-games
Sprumont (1990) introduces Population Monotonic Allocation Scheme (PMAS) and proves that every assignment game with at least two sellers and two buyers, where each buyer-seller pair derives a positive gain from trade, lacks ...
Non-manipulability by clones in bankruptcy problems [WP]
In the domain of bankruptcy problems, we show that non manipulability via merging and splitting claims by identical agents characterizes the proportional rule provided claims are positive rational numbers. By adding either ...
Social Security Reforms, Retirement and Sectoral Decisions
In many countries, the regulations governing public and private pension systems, hiring procedures, and job contracts differ. Public sector employees tend to have longer tenures and higher wages compared to workers in the ...
A General Equilibrium Model with Real Exchange Rate [WP]
I first write a partial equilibrium model “á la Rogoff” where there are relative prices of non-tradable goods in terms of prices of tradables goods. I find that the behaviour of the real exchange rate shows structural ...
War inflation and taxation
Warfare has been commonly associated with increasing levels of inflation, with important implications for tax systems. In this chapter, we first review the literature on war finance and inflation, considering both the ...
Efficient copyright filters for online hosting platforms
This paper documents the existence of significant gender gaps in STEM occupations in Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Mexico and estimates the aggregate costs associated with these gaps in Mexico. For Mexico we calibrate and ...
Income-based affirmative action in college admissions [WP]
We study whether college admissions should implement quotas for lower-income applicants. We develop an overlapping-generations model and calibrate it to data from Brazil, where such a policy is widely implemented. In our ...
Why Italy and not Spain?: comparing two industrialization processes from a dissagregate time-series perspective
This study presents new evidence concerning the uneven processes of industrialization in nineteenth century Spain and Italy based on a disaggregate analysis of the productive sectors from which the behaviour of the ...
Regional structure of wages and external economies in Spain
Regional data on wages for the Spanish economy show that workers who live in developed regions earn more than workers in other regions. Literature on external economies provides a possible explanation of why firms do not ...
