Universitat Rovira i Virgili: Recent submissions
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The allocation of CO2 emissions as a claims problem
This paper proposes to use claims models as a reasonable and operative alternative in order to allocate CO2 emissions by countries (or groups), in the framework of multilateral negotiations and the fight against climate change. ...
Location of Co-Working Spaces in the city
The present paper investigates the location patterns and the effects co-working spaces (CWS) generate on the urban context. The focus is on Barcelona, one of the most important creative hubs in Europe in terms of ...
School Dropouts and the Local Labor Markets: The Role of the Skills Structure of the Employment
A small number of studies have examined the impact of local labor market conditions (unemployment) on school dropout rates. However, none of them have considered the role of the employment structure (skilled vs. non-skilled). ...
The Joint Impact of Infrastructure and Institutions on Economic Growth
This paper examines the joint impact of infrastructure capital and institutional quality on economic growth using a large panel data set covering 120 countries and spanning the years 1980-2015. The empirical strategy ...
Group contest success function: The heterogeneous individuals case
This paper extends the axiomatic characterization of the group contest success function in Münster (2009) to groups with heterogeneous individuals (e.g., individuals with different skills or different cognitive capacities). ...
Unilateral Effects Screens for Partial Horizontal Acquisitions: The Generalized HHI and GUPPI
Recent years have witnessed an increased interest, by competition agencies, in assessing the competitive effects of partial acquisitions. We propose a generalization of the two most traditional indicators used to screen ...
A Behavioral Theory of Allocation in the Dictator Game
This paper attempts to explain the behavior observed in the dictator game without explicitly assuming a utility function. Alternatively, I consider the representative behavior of a society composed of heterogeneous individuals ...
Decomposing the Changes in Water Intensity in a Mediterranean Region
This paper proposes a simple method for decomposing the temporal changes in water intensity into different driving factors. Specifically, total changes are split into three elements that clarify some of the hidden reasons ...
Estimating individual effects and their spatial spillovers in linear panel data models: Public capital spillovers after all?
Individual-specific effects and their spatial spillovers are not generally identified in linear panel data models. In this paper we present identification conditions under the assumption that covariates are correlated with ...
A correlated random effects spatial Durbin model
We consider a correlated random effects specification of the spatial Durbin (dynamic) panel model with an error-term containing individual effects and their spatial spillovers. We derive the likelihood function of the model ...
Volatility Spillovers in a Long-Memory VAR: an Application to Energy Futures Returns
In this paper, we assess volatility spillovers across energy markets accounting for the persistence of the volatility series. To do so, we compute Diebold and Yilmaz (2015) measures of connectedness based on the forecast-error ...
Growth, heterogeneous technological interdependence,and spatial externalities: Theory and Evidence
We present a growth model with interdependencies in the heterogeneous technological progress, physical capital and stock of knowledge that yields a growth-initial equation that can be taken to the data. We then use data ...
Where New Creative Industries Locate? Evidence from French Departments
This paper focuses on the creative industries and the role played by the existing spatial distribution and agglomeration economies of these activities in relation to their entry decisions. Our main statistical source is ...
To acquire or not to acquire: Mergers and Acquisitions in the Software Industry
The aim of this paper is to analyse the impact of Mergers and Acquisitions on firm growth for Software firms located in Catalonia. We investigate firms which are targeting, or are themselves the target of an acquisition ...
Innovation and Geographical Spillovers: New Approaches and Empirical Evidence
This special issue concerns the generation of knowledge and geographical spillovers, and it includes a selection of papers that cover existent research gaps with respect to the role of space in the promotion of knowledge ...
Gender diversity, R&D teams and patents: An application to Spanish firms
Previous results show that gender diversity increases the probability that firms invest in R&D and engage in innovation. This paper explores the relationship between gender diversity of R&D departments and their capacity ...
Eco-strategies and firm growth in European SMEs
This study investigates the effects of eco-strategies on firm performance in terms of sales growth in an extensive sample of 11,336 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) located in 28 European countries. Our empirical ...
Weak fairness and the Shapley value
The Shapley value (Shapley, 1953) has been axiomatically characterized from different points of view. Van den Brink (2001) proposes a characterization by means of efficiency, fairness and the null player property. In ...
Distributing the European structural and investment funds from a conflicting claims approach
In order to support economic development across all EU regions, € 351.8 billion -almost a third of the total EU budget- has been set aside for the Cohesion Policy during the period 2014-2020. The distribution of this budget ...
Conflict and Competition over Multi-Issues
Real life disputes, negotiations and competitive situations involve multi-issue considerations in which the final outcome depends on the aggregated effort over several dimensions. We consider two allocation systems, the ...
