UB Economics (ERE): Recent submissions
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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 ...
Is football an indicator of development at the international level? (WP)
[spa] El objetivo de este trabajo es examinar si el fútbol puede ser considerado como un indicador de desarrollo a nivel internacional. Se ha diseñado un modelo econométrico empírico con el fin de analizar el desarrollo ...
The determinants of entrepreneurship gender gaps: A cross-country analysis
This paper uses aggregate data from the International Labor Organization and microeconomic data from the European Values Study to study the empirical determinants of gender gaps in entrepreneurship, distinguishing between ...
Discrete analysis of dividend payments in a non-life insurance portfolio
The process of free reserves in a non-life insurance portfolio as defined in the classical model of risk theory is modified by the introduction of dividend policies that set maximum levels for the accumulation of reserves. ...
One-seller assignment markets with multi-unit demands
We consider one-seller assignment markets with multi-unit demands and prove that the associated game is buyers-submodular. Therefore the core is non-empty and it has a lattice structure which contains the allocation where ...
Product Quality and International Price Dynamics
Two puzzling facts of international real business cycles are 1) weak or negative correlations between the terms of trade and output, and 2) a rise in relative consumption for countries where national goods become relatively ...
The toys that made us: The role of game in gender gaps
Early gender gaps condition future educational decisions and labor market and social outcomes. There is extensive evidence reporting the existence of significant gender gaps in mathematical and scientific competencies at ...
The nucleolus of the assignment game. Structure of the family
We show that the family of assignment matrices which give rise to the same nucleolus forms a compact join-semilattice with one maximal element. The above family is in general not a convex set, but path-connected.
The proportional distribution in a cooperative model with external opportunities
[cat] En aquest article es considera un problema de cooperació entre agents on cada agent realitza una contribució (diners, capital, treball, esforç) per tal d'obtenir un benefici comú a repartir. El repartiment proporcional ...
Reparto de dividendos en una cartera de seguros no vida : obtención de la barrera constante óptima bajo criterios económico-actuariales
Consideramos el proceso clásico del riesgo modificado con la introducción de una barrera de dividendos constante, de tal forma que cuando el proceso de reservas alcanza la barrera se pagan dividendos hasta la ocurrencia ...
Assignment markets with the same core
[spa] En el contexto de los juegos de asignación bilaterales, estudiamos el conjunto de matrices asociadas a mercados de asignación con el mismo nucleo. Se proporcionan condiciones sobre las entradas de la matriz que ...
The work of Spanish men. A quantitative analysis based on census data, 1900-1970
This paper presents a historical examination of employment in old age in Spain, in order to characterize this labour segment and identify and analyse its specific problems. One of these problems is the life-cycle deskilling ...
Do search engines increase concentration in media markets?
Search engines are one of the main channels to access news content of traditional newspapers. In the European Union, organic search traffic from Google accounts for 35% of news outlets’ visits. Yet, the effects of Google ...
A difficult consensus: the making of the Spanish welfare State
Before 1977, the Spanish government was unable (or unwilling) to increase taxation to finance new social programs. As an alternative to this lack of fiscal capacity, Spanish policy makers in the early 20th century promoted ...
Optimal fiscal policy in overlapping generations models
[eng] This paper provides, from a theoretical and quantitative point of view, an explanation of why taxes on capital returns are high (around 35%) by analyzing the optimal fiscal policy in an economy with intergenerational ...
Linear least squares estimation of the first order moving average parameter
We propose an iterative procedure to minimize the sum of squares function which avoids the nonlinear nature of estimating the first order moving average parameter and provides a closed form of the estimator. The asymptotic ...
Knowledge Licensing in a Model of R&D-driven Endogenous Growth [WP]
In this paper I present an endogenous growth model where the engine of growth is in-house R&D performed by high-tech firms. I model knowledge (patent) licensing among high-tech firms. I show that if there is knowledge ...
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 ...
Assessing the assignation of public subsidies: Do the experts choose the most efficient R and D projects? [WP]
[spa] La implementación de un programa de subvenciones públicas a proyectos empresariales de I+D comporta establecer un sistema de selección de proyectos. Esta selección se enfrenta a problemas relevantes, como son la ...
