AQR (Grup d’Anàlisi Quantitativa Regional): Recent submissions
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Emissions and Allowances in the EU Emissions Trading System after the Paris Agreement
In this paper, I examine how allowances allocation affected emissions of power sector installations in the EU ETS following the Paris Agreements. The dataset I use covers the 2010-2022 period, includes the emissions and ...
What really matters is the economic performance: Positioning tourist destinations by means of perceptual maps
The present study aims to cluster the world's main tourist destinations according to the growth of the economic performance of the tourist activity and of the tourist and economic development experienced during the last ...
What drives migration moves across urban areas in Spain? Evidence from the Great Recession [WP]
In Spain, economic disparities between regions have traditionally played a relevant role in migration. Nevertheless, during the previous high-instability period, analyses provided conflicting results about the effect of ...
What drives the spatial wage premium for formal and informal workers? The case of Ecuador [WP]
This article investigates the incidence of agglomeration externalities in a typical developing country, Ecuador. In particular, we analyze the role of the informal sector within these relations, since informal employment ...
Labor Market Monopsony and Firm Behavior: Evidence from Spanish Exporters
In this paper, I develop a method to estimate the effect of firm behavior on labor market monopsony power. Using China’s accession to WTO for the identification, I employ the proposed empirical framework to analyse the ...
Economic determinants of employment sentiment: A socio-demographic analysis for the euro area
In this study we construct quarterly consumer confidence indicators of unemployment for the euro area using as input the consumer expectations for sixteen socio-demographic groups elicited from the Joint Harmonised EU ...
Cartel destabilization effect of leniency programs
This paper investigates the theoretically and empirically unsettled question of the effect of the leniency programs on cartel duration, cartel fines and the length of the investigation. The fact that leniency programs were ...
An analysis of the Okun´s law for the Spanish provinces
The inverse relationship between unemployment and Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth, commonly known as Okun’s law, has been traditionally analysed in the economic literature. Its application for Spain has been carried ...
Analyzing Wage Differentials by Fields of Study: Evidence from Turkey
This paper analyzes the drivers of wage differences among college graduates who hold a degree in a different field of study. We focus on Turkey, an emerging country that is characterized by a sustained expansion of higher ...
Has the economic crisis worsened the world-related stress and mental health of temporary workers in Spain? [WP]
This paper analyses the causal effects of temporary employment on work-related stress and mental health before (2006/07) and during the economic crisis (2011/12) and examines whether the economic recession worsened these ...
Geographical distribution of the COVID-19 pandemic across waves in Spain
This paper pursues a deep insight in the evolution of the spatial distribution of the pandemic in the Spanish provinces along the six waves. Through the use of spatial exploratory techniques, we observe that the geographical ...
Detecting multiple level shifts in bounded time series
The paper proposes a sequential statistical procedure to test for the presence of level shifts affecting bounded time series, regardless of their order of integration. The paper shows that bounds are relevant for the ...
How Have Video-on-Demand Platforms Shaped Our Preferences? Endogenous Preferences in a Cultural Market
In this paper, I investigate the effect of the introduction of video-on-demand (VoD) platforms on the preferences for diferent language versions of movies. By using survey data gathered from 2014 to 2019 in the bilingual ...
Linguistic skills and the intergenerational transmission of language [WP]
We investigate the pattern of intergenerational transmission of language in a bilingual society. We consider the case of Catalonia, where the two main speech communities, Spanish and Catalan, are of similar sizes, both ...
The Impact of Robot Adoption on Global Sourcing
This paper studies the impact of robot adoption on firms’ global sourcing activities. Using a rich panel dataset of Spanish manufacturing firms, we show that robot adopting firms increased their intermediate input purchases ...
Economic impact of cruise activity: The Port of Barcelona [WP]
Tourism is a highly dynamic sector. An example of this is the boom that cruise tourism has seen in recent years, leading many countries to consider cruises a key product in their development of tourism. The Port of Barcelona ...
Computing functional urban areas using a hierarchical travel time approach: An applied case in Ecuador
Identifying integrated urban areas is an important issue for urban analysis and policy evaluation. In this paper, we extend the OECD’s methodology to identify Functional Urban Areas to countries where there is not commuting ...
Density forecasts of inflation using Gaussian process regression models
The present study uses Gaussian Process regression models for generating density forecasts of inflation within the New Keynesian Phillips curve (NKPC) framework. The NKPC is a structural model of inflation dynamics in which ...
A new measure of consensus for Likert scales [WP]
In this study we present a metric of consensus for Likert-type scales. The measure gives the level of agreement as the percentage of consensus among respondents. The proposed framework allows to design a positional indicator ...
How systemic is Spain for Europe?
We use the forecast-error variance decompositions from a VAR with daily sovereign bonds spreads since 2000 to detail the linkages between EU sovereign bond markets and banks over time. Using new summary statistics on the ...
