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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Tariffs and industrial location in Ecuador
The theoretical literature has reached no consensus on whether international trade liberalization increases concentration of economic activities within a given country or whether dispersion occurs as the country progressively ...
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 ...
Income-based affirmative action in college admissions [WP]
We study whether college admissions should implement quotas for lower-income applicants. We develop an overlapping-generations model and calibrate it to data from Brazil, where such a policy is widely implemented. In our ...
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. ...
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 ...
Gender gaps in STEM occupations in Costa Rica, El Salvador and Mexico
This paper documents the existence of significant gender gaps in STEM occupations in Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Mexico and estimates the aggregate costs associated with these gaps in Mexico. For Mexico we calibrate and ...
Educational Assortative Mating in the European Regions
Measuring social segregation, a complex socioeconomic phenomenon with multifaceted dimensions poses significant challenges. Social segregation has different dimensions that could be framed as cultural, social, economic, ...
School choice with farsighted students [WP]
We consider priority-based school choice problems with farsighted students. We show that a singleton set consisting of the matching obtained from the Top Trading Cycles (TTC) mechanism is a farsighted stable set. However, ...
Fiscal Multiplier in Bolivia: Do the Nationalization Process and the Unconventional Monetary Policy matter?
This paper studies the fiscal multiplier in Bolivia considering key characteristics of the country and compares the results obtained for Bolivia with the fiscal multipliers estimated for Latin American countries. The main ...
Do fiscal rules affect growth?
Over the past three decades, many countries have adopted fiscal rules. This paper studies their impact on economic growth using an overlapping generations model with endogenous growth, where the government imposes both a ...
The Economic Linkages of Covid-19 Across Sectors and Regions in the UK
This paper builds a spatial model of trade with supply-chain links to try to understand the effect of economic links and policies on the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic during the first wave across NUTS2 UK regions. We ...
Two families of values for global games [WP]
We propose new point valued solutions for global games. We explore the implications of weakening some of the properties used by Gilboa and Lehrer (1991) in their characterization result. Our main contributions are the ...
Proportional clearing mechanisms in financial systems: an axiomatic approach
When a financial network collapses, how should mutual obligations among all agents be cleared? We study this problem taking an axiomatic approach and provide the first characterization of the family of rules based on the ...
The expansion of primary education in an industrialising economy: Catalonia in the age of mass schooling (1860-1930)
This paper studies the main patterns and trends observed in primary education in Catalonia between 1860 and 1930. The information gathered from official education statistics makes it possible to track several primary ...
Bad NGOs? Competition in the market for donations and workers' misconduct
In this paper, we investigate how competition among NGOs to attract donations affects the behavior of NGOs' employees. NGOs hire workers to undertake development projects, which are horizontally and vertically differentiated. ...
