Econometria, Estadística i Economia Aplicada: Recent submissions
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Les empreses innovadores a Catalunya
Com és sabut, l'esforç realitzat per Espanya en R+D dista encara de ser equiparable al que realitzen els principals països europeus i els més avançats del món, malgrat les millores experimentades en els darrers anys. Pel ...
The unequal distribution of consequences of contracting out: Female, lowskilled, and young workers pay the highest price
While the public and private labor markets are marked by significant differences in the institutions of wage formation, very few studies have examined workers' wages and employment in the public and private sectors when ...
Comparing the dangers of a stay in English and German hospitals for high-need patients
Objective To estimate the risk of an avoidable adverse event for high-need patients in England and Germany and the causal impact that has on outcomes. Data Sources We use administrative, secondary data for all hospital ...
Sobre la Renta Básica y la desigualdad de género
La renta básica (RB) ha recibido muchas críticas desde que es conocida ya hace al menos tres décadas. La de que no es una buena medida para las mujeres (crítica que tiene algunas variantes) empezó con cierta fuerza y se ...
An examination of the tail contribution to distortion risk measures
Extreme losses are specially relevant in the finance and insurance sectors. Here, we analyze the tail behavior of risks and its influence on risk measures. Specifically, we examine the part of the risk value of a distortion ...
Asymmetric volatility spillovers and consumption risk-sharing
Recent studies show that international financial integration facilitates cross-country consumption risk-sharing. We extend this line of research and demonstrate that breaking financial integration down into good and bad ...
Sobre la continuïtat dels ERTO
A diferència de la crisi anterior, i des de la declaració de l'estat d'alarma, el govern espanyol ha prioritzat la utilització dels expedients de regulació temporals d'ocupació (ERTO) per força major per tal de contenir ...
Price and Profit Optimization for Financial Services
Prospective customers of financial and insurance products can be targeted based on the profit the provider expects to earn from them. We present a model for individual expected profit and two alternatives for calculating ...
Public-private sector wage differentials by type of contract: evidence from Spain
The article examines public-private sector wage differentials in Spain using microdata from the Structure of Earnings Survey (Encuesta de Estructura Salarial). When applying various decomposition techniques, we find that ...
La investigación regional en España: un análisis bibliométrico
Este trabajo analiza cual ha sido la evolución de la investigación en ciencia regional y urbana en España en el período 1991-2000 situándola en el contexto internacional. Para ello, se elaboran rankings de países, autores ...
Does fiscal responsibility matter? Evidence from public and private forecasters in Italy
Nowadays, fiscal forecasts are a centerpiece of macroeconomic policy decisions, particularly in highly indebted European Union countries such as Italy. The Stability and Convergence Programs and the new Fiscal Compact seem ...
Per què a Espanya es fan tantes infraestructures que no s'usen?: I, s'hi pot fer alguna cosa?
En els darrers anys han esclatat les diverses bombolles que s'havien generat a Espanya durant la dècada meravellosa, entre les quals han destacat la del deute -sobretot privat- i el seu correlat immobiliari, la de les ...
The impact of aging drivers and vehicles on the injury severity of crash victims
Against a general trend of increasing driver longevity, the injuries suffered by vehicle occupants in Spanish road traffic crashes are analyzed by the level of severity of their bodily injuries (BI). Generalized linear ...
Vulnerable Funding in the Global Economy
This study builds on the conceptual framework of vulnerable growth to examine how US financial shocks influence the conditional distribution of real credit growth across a diverse set of countries, a phenomenon we term ...
The role of relatedness and unrelatedness for the geography of technological breakthroughs in Europe
This article proposes a framework to study how the existing knowledge portfolio of regional economies affects the emergence and occurrence of breakthrough technologies. The study discusses the relevance of cognitive distance ...
Minimum wages, youth employment and spatial spillovers: New evidence for Spain
The effect of minimum wages increases on youth employment level has been extensively analysed, but recent contributions have highlighted the potential bias in these studies due to neglected spatial autocorrelation in the ...
Bilingual schooling and earnings: Evidence from a language-in-education reform
We estimate the wage effects of bilingual education for the first time using a reform that introduced bilingualism in Catalan schools. Variation across years of schooling and birth cohorts provides identification. We find ...
The costs of corporatisation: Analysing the effects of forms of governance
Public corporations have been constantly in the spotlight, with some commentators arguing that they can help governments provide better public services, and others insisting that their governance is simply too complex. ...
Desigualdad de la incertidumbre económica subjetiva y perspectivas económicas individuales durante la pandemia
Este artículo estudia qué factores influyen en la aparición de incertidumbre económica subjetiva y cuáles son las expectativas económicas de las personas. Se analiza el impacto de la pandemia sobre la economía doméstica e ...
Factors associated with longer wait times, admission and reattendances in older patients attending emergency departments. An analysis of linked healthcare data
Background and objective Care for older patients in the ED is an increasingly important issue with the ageing society. To better assess the quality of care in this patient group, we assessed predictors for three outcomes ...
