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Human capital spillovers, productivity and regional convergence in Spain
This paper analyses the differential impact of human capital, in terms of different levels of schooling, on regional productivity and convergence. The potential existence of geographical spillovers of human capital is also ...
Too big to fail? An analysis of the Colombian banking system through compositional data
Although still incipient in economics and finance, compositional data analysis (in which relative information is more important than absolute values are) has become more relevant in statistical analysis in recent years. ...
The impact of combining work with study on the labour market performance of graduates: the joint role of work intensity and job-field match
Purpose - This paper investigates the effects of working during university education on labour market outcomes of university graduates. Design/methodology/approach - Based on data from three successive cohorts of graduates ...
Efficient likelihood estimation of Heston model for novel climate-related financial contracts valuation
We propose novel Bitcoin-denominated derivatives contracts on carbon bonds. We consider afutures contract on carbon bonds where its price is expressed in terms of bitcoins. Then, we putforward options on a futures contract ...
The political economy of the Paris agreement: Income inequality and climate policy
We empirically assess how both between-country inequality and within-country inequality relate to climate policy ambition as defined by NDC pledges of the Paris Agreement (COP21). We exploit the difference between high and ...
The effects of moratoriums on hotel building: An anti-tourism measure, or rather protection for local incumbents?
In July 2015 the newly elected City Council of Barcelona approved a moratorium on the building of hotels. This study empirically evaluates its effect on hotel prices, using 202,019 daily observations on hotel prices between ...
El Retorn del coneixement d'anglès en el mercat laboral català
Hi ha un consens general al voltant del paper de l'anglès com a "lingua franca" en un món sempre més globalitzat, on la freqüència i la intensitat de les interaccions (econòmiques i socials) entre agents de països i llengües ...
Misusing our talent? Overeducation, overskilling and skill underutilisation among Spanish PhD graduates
The 'knowledge economy' is said to depend increasingly on capacities for innovation, knowledge-generation and complex problem-solving - capacities attributed to university graduates with research degrees. To what extent, ...
High Speed Rail and Tourism: Empirical evidence from Spain
This paper evaluates how changes in the provision of high-speed rail (HSR) services affect tourism outcomes in Spain, a tourist country with the newest and longest HSR network in Europe. To do so it employs an empirical ...
Price versus quantity measures to deal with pollution and congestion in urban areas: A political economy approach
Pollution and congestion in urban areas are serious externalities that can be mitigated through the adoption of either price- or quantity-based mechanisms. While price restrictions are occasionally applied, quantity ...
Tracking positive and negative effects of inequality on long-run growth
Despite extensive research controversy remains on the effects of income inequality on economic growth. The literature proposes several transmission channels through which these effects may occur and even the existence of ...
Introducing and enhancing competition to improve delivery of local services of solid waste collection
Over the last two decades, Barcelona has implemented a far-reaching reform of the city's solid waste collection. In 2000, the city was divided in four zones, with four separate solid waste collection contracts being awarded ...
Scientifically Informed Solidarity: Changing Anti-Immigrant Prejudice about Universal Access to Health
Currently, anti-immigrant sentiment has emerged again in European countries, as witnessed, for example, by the rise of xenophobic parties in many member states. This is a prejudice that is not new but that intensifies in ...
Statistical tests of a simple energy balance equation in a synthetic model of cotrending and cointegration
We develop new tests for the linear relationship between temperature and forcing, which is one of the most studied implications from a simple energy balance model. We consider a bivariate system of temperature and forcing ...
Collective Bargaining and Regional Wage Differences in Spain: An Empirical Analysis
This article analyses the importance of labour market institutions and, in particular, collective wage bargaining in shaping regional wage differences in the Spanish labour market. Using microdata from the Spanish Structure ...
Wage differentials between native and immigrant women in Spain: accounting for differences in support
Purpose: The objective of the study is to quantify the wage gap between native and immigrant women in Spain, taking into account differences in their characteristics and the need to control for common support. If immigrant ...
Testing for multiple level shifts with an integrated or stationary noise component
The paper analyzes the detection and estimation of multiple level shifts regardless of the order of integration of the time series. We show that it is possible to extend the Bai-Perron methodology (1998) to the I(1) and ...
Weekly dynamic motor insurance ratemaking with a telematics signals bonus-malus score
We present a dynamic pay-how-you-drive pricing scheme for motor insurance using telematics signals. More specifically, our approach allows the insurer to apply penalties to a baseline premium on the occurrence of events ...
Misinformation and Misperception in the market for parking
Parking regulations have been widely adopted by cities as a tool to tackle traffic-related externalities. Both researchers and practitioners have proposed parking policy interventions that tend to rely on the assumption ...
Natural resources and human development: Evidence from mineral-dependent African countries using exploratory graphical analysis
In this study, we propose a new approach for the visual inspection of interactions between human development and economic growth and a set of variables that reflect the dependence of mineral resources. We focus on the ten ...
