UB Economics (ERE): Enviaments recents
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The complexity of power indices in voting games with incompatible players
We study the complexity of computing the Banzhaf index in weighted voting games with cooperation restricted by an incompatibility graph. With an existing algorithm as a starting point, we use concepts from complexity theory ...
On the elasticity of substitution between labor and ICT and IP capital and traditional capital
I estimate CES aggregate production functions for the US, the UK, Japan, Germany, and Spain using data from the EU KLEMS database. I distinguish between three types of capital: information and communication technologies ...
Understanding the decline of interpersonal violence in the ancient middle east
How did human societies succeed in reducing interpersonal violence, a precondition to achieve security and prosperity? Given that homicide records are only available for the more recent period, much of human history remains ...
The greener, the better? Evidence from government contractors
Governments can support the green transition through green public procurement. Despite its strategic importance, the impact of this policy on firms remains unclear. Using US data, this paper provides the first empirical ...
Key players in bullying networks
Individuals are embedded in a network of relationships and they can be victims, bystanders, or perpetrators of bullying and harassment. Each individual decides noncooperatively how much effort to exert in preventing ...
Monotonic transformation of preferences and Walrasian equilibrium in allocation problems
This paper investigates (non-)manipulability properties and welfare effects of Walrasian equilibrium rules in object allocation problems with non-quasi-linear preferences. We focus on allocation problems with indivisible ...
Inflation and pandemic in Spain
This paper shows what the main inflation macroeconomics drivers in Spain are. Even if there has been a less than two-digit inflation in the last three decades, it can be emphasized the fact that the inflation rate has ...
Services trade contribution on global income generation (2000 - 2014)
This paper investigates the contribution of services trade to the variation of global income generation for the period of 2000 to 2014, applying a structural decomposition analysis in a global multi-regional input-output ...
PhD graduates in Spain: does it pay to study it abroad?
In this paper, we provide information on PhD graduates using the Spanish University Graduate Placement Survey from 2019. We analyze whether studying the PhD partially or fully abroad affects wages and the probability of ...
Structural transformation in India: The Role of the Service Sector
Contrary to the experience of industrialized countries, productivity growth of Indian services has been consistently faster than manufacturing. In this paper, I document that (i) the fastest growing industries in services ...
Gendered Effects of the Minimum Wage
Women are more likely to work in jobs with low hours than men. Low-hour jobs are associated with lower hourly wages and are more likely impacted by minimum wages that set a floor on hourly wages. We document that the first ...
Sequential Creation of Surplus and the Shapley Value
We introduce the family of games with intertemporal externalities, where two disjoint sets of players play sequentially. Coalitions formed by the present cohort generate worth today. Moreover, today’s partition of players ...
Trickle-Down Economics, Merit, and Redistribution: An Experiment with the Poorest and Richest US Americans
Despite growing income inequality, demand for redistribution has remained stagnant, which is particularly puzzling for the poor. We investigate whether attitudes toward “trickle-down” economics and preferences for fairness ...
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 ...
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 ...
The long-term evolution of intergenerational transfers in Spain (1958-2012)
National Transfer Accounts (NTA) aim at disentangling how people produce, consume and save along the lifecycle, and how resources move among generations through the different resource allocation devices available (family, ...
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 ...
The gender gap in paid and unpaid work along the life cycle: The role of household arrangements
We examined how men and women in Spain contribute to market and nonmarket production and share it among household members in various living arrangements, considering the role of partnership and parenthood status. Extending ...
Matching markets with farsighted couples [WP]
We adopt the notion of the farsighted stable set to determine which match-ings are stable when agents are farsighted in matching markets with couples. We show that a singleton matching is a farsighted stable set if 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 ...
