UB Economics (ERE): Enviaments recents
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Reforms in the Natural Gas Sector and Economic Development [WP]
This paper investigates the short and long run effects of increased competition in the provision of natural gas. We build a dynamic general equilibrium model with monopolistic distribution of natural gas and calibrate it ...
The essential coalitions index in games with restricted cooperation
We propose a new power index, which we call the essential coalitions index. Within the field of power indices, the new measure extends the Deegan-Packel power index to situations with restricted cooperation. In general, ...
The Partition Lattice Value for Global Cooperative Games
We introduce a new value for global cooperative games that we call the Partition lattice value. A global cooperative game describes the overall utility that a set of agents generates depending on how they are organized in ...
Parental education and the transition to master and PhD studies in Spain
In a context of full equality of opportunity, bachelor graduates’ decision to pursue further studies should not be affected by social origin. Using Spanish data, we analyze the role of parental background on the decision ...
Project Choice and Social Image Concerns
Employees' desire to impress their employer may lead to suboptimal choices, such as performing tasks that are out of their depth. In this paper, we formalise this intuition in a principal-agent setting and we experimentally ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Income-based scholarships and access to higher education
Financial aid to college students has been widely implemented by governments in developed and emerging economies in an attempt to reduce the entry barriers to higher education (HE). Understanding the extent to which these ...
Working from home in European countries before and during the COVID-19 pandemic
We use data from the EU Labour Force Survey for 8 countries and document the levels of working from home in the sample countries, industries, and occupations in the 2011-2019 period and its changes in 2020, the year when ...
