UB Economics (ERE): Enviaments recents
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Autovías y ferrocarriles: un modelo para evaluar efectos intermodales de la política de infraestructuras
La construcción de autovías disminuye el coste temporal del viaje por carretera, con efectos sobre la demanda del transporte por carretera. Pero, además de los efectos intramodales, existen efectos intermodales, puesto que ...
Geographical determinants of the creation of manufacturing firms: The regions of Spain
La complexitat dels mecanismes que determinen l'entrada i la sortida de signatures augmenta quan diferències geogràfiques de l'estructura de producció, la capital humana i l'atur són considerades. Variacions interregionals ...
Economic ideas and tax policy: The introduction of progressivity in tax systems in Western Europe. The cases of France and Spain
In the last decade of the 19th century, the United Kingdom, France and Spain established progressive rates in their succession taxes. This paper compares the legislative processes that France and Spain countries followed ...
The impact of doing business regulations on investments in ICT [WP]
Using industry-level data from 14 OECD countries and doing business indicators of the World Bank, we analyze how country-level regulations of business activities affect investments in information and communication technologies ...
Colonizer Identity and Trade in Africa: Were the British More Favourable to Free Trade?
It has often been claimed that the structure of export trade between Africa and Europe during the colonial period depended on the colonizer identity, with the British relying on free trade and the French employing instead ...
Top income shares in Portugal over the twentieth century
[cat] L’objectiu d’aquest article és presentar nova evidència estadística sobre l’evolució de les desigualtats econòmiques a Portugal a llarg termini. L’explotació de les fonts fiscals portugueses ha permès l’estimació ...
Carbon-motivated border tax adjustment: a proposal for the EU
The analysis focuses on carbon-motivated border tax adjustment (CBTA). CBTA are tariffs applied to imports designed to avoid drawbacks of emission reduction policies when only one or few regions (the abating regions) ...
Is the impact of public investment neutral across the regional income distribution?: evidence from Mexico
This paper investigates the contribution of public investment to the reduction of regional inqualities, with a specific application to Mexico. We use quantile regressions to examine the impact of public investment on ...
Efficient multilateralism or bilateralism? The TTIP from an EU Trade Policy perspective
The EU bilateral trade strategy since 2006, including the TTIP, has been justified by the European Commission on the bases that deep and comprehensive trade agreements are compatible with efficient multilateralism. The ...
User cost of capital with delayed investment grants
The usual assumption when considering investment grants is that grant payments are automatic when investments are undertaken. However, evidence from case studies shows that there can exist some time lag until funds are ...
Lobbying, political competition, and local land supply: recent evidence from Spain
We analyze whether local land supply is influenced by the degree of political competition, and interpret the findings as being indicative of the influence wielded by land development lobbies. We use a new database including ...
The set of undominated imputations and the core: an axiomatic approach
This paper provides an axiomatic framework to compare the D-core (the set of undominated imputations) and the core of a cooperative game with transferable utility. Theorem 1 states that the D-core is the only solution ...
Intellectual Property and Product Market Competition Regulations in a Model with Two R&D Performing Sectors [WP]
I analyze the impact of intellectual property and product market competition regulations on innovation and long-run growth in an endogenous growth model with two R&D performing sectors. I show that strengthening intellectual ...
Solving Becker's assortative assignments and extensions
We analyze assortative assignment games, introduced in Becker (1973) and Eriksson et al. (2000). We study the extreme core points and show an easy way to compute them. We find a natural solution for these games. It coincides ...
Tax reforms and inequality: theoretical and empirical implications
In this paper we examine the effect of tax policy on the relationship between inequality and growth in a two-sector non-scale model. With non-scale models, the longrun equilibrium growth rate is determined by technological ...
Land use changes, landscape ecology and their socioeconomic driving forces in the Spanish Mediterranean coast (the Maresme County, 1850-2005)
[cat] Utilitzem un conjunt de mètriques del paisatge per estudiar l'evolució a llarg termini seguida en una típica zona costanera del Mediterrani des de 1850 fins a 2005, que mostren una greu deterioració del medi ambient ...
Capital humano local y productividad en las provincias españolas
En la última década, distintos estudios han intentado contrastar empíricamente la existencia de una relación entre el stock de capital humano local y la productividad del territorio, así como la posible presencia de ...
Fossil resource depletion and climate change emissions: the role of physical constrictions
[spa] En lo que concierne al cambio climático, los pronósticos de cercanos picos de combustible fósiles parecen buenas noticias pues la mayoría de las emisiones proceden de la quema de combustibles fósiles. Sin embargo, ...
New evidence of the real interest rate parity for OECD countries using panel unit root tests with breaks
This paper tests for real interest parity (RIRP) among the nineteen major OECD countries over the period 1978:Q2-1998:Q4. The econometric methods applied consist of combining the use of several unit root or stationarity ...
Re-visiting the health care luxury good hypothesis: Aggregation, precision, and publication biases?
[cat] Mentre que una creixent literatura que ha examinat la relació entre la renda i la despesa sanitària suggereix que els serveis sanitaris són un be de luxe (elasticitat renda superior a la unitat), aquesta conclusió ...
