UB Economics (ERE): Envíos recientes
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Las relaciones económicas internacionales de la "España Europea"
[eng] Since the year 1986 in which Spain became full member of the European Communities, the quantity and quality of the Spanish international economic relations measured in terms of Balance of Payments have change ...
Sistema fiscal y reforma de la Seguridad Social
El presente trabajo analiza desde un punto de vista cuantitativo, mediante un modelo de equilibrio general de generaciones sucesivas, los efectos sobre la economía española de eliminar el actual sistema de Seguridad Social ...
Parents’ Investments and Education Returns
[cat] Aquest article analitza la relació entre els ingressos dels pares i l’educació dels seus fills. En un context d’altruïsme perfecte, el model descriu les decisions dels pares sobre quant consumir i quant invertir en ...
The mechanisms of agglomeration: Evidence from the effect of inter-industry relations on the location of new firms
The objective of this paper is to explore the relative importance of each of Marshall's agglomeration mechanisms by examining the location of new manufacturing firms in Spain. In particular, we estimate the count of new ...
Aggregate Costs of Gender Gaps in the Labor Market: A Quantitative Estimate [WP]
This paper examines the quantitative effects of gender gaps in entrepreneurship and labor force participation on aggregate productivity and income per capita. We simulate an occupational choice model with heterogeneous ...
A Note on Shapley's convex measure games
L. S. Shapley, in his paper 'Cores of Convex Games', introduces Convex Measure Games, those that are induced by a convex function on R, acting over a measure on the coalitions. But in a note he states that if this function ...
All assignment games with the same core have the same nucleolus
There exist coalitional games with transferable utility which have the same core but different nucleoli. We show that this cannot happen in the case of assignment games. Whenever two assignment games have the same core, ...
Why do university graduates regret their study program? A comparison between Spain and the Netherlands [WP]
[cat] En aquest article investiguem els factors que porten a universitaris espanyols i holandesos a lamentar els estudis cursats. Espanya i Holanda tenen un sistema educatiu molt diferent en termes de la rigidesa de ...
Una aproximación a la manipulación de los resultados en las PYMES españolas
[spa] Esta comunicación investiga la manipulación de resultados en las pymes españolas en el período 2000-2008. Se trabaja con dos muestras de empresas (solventes e insolventes) y el proceso seguido ha consistido en recoger ...
Complementarity between human capital and trade in regional technological progress
The effect of openness and trade orientation on economic growth remains a highly contentious issue in the literature. Trade facilitates the spread of knowledge and the adoption of more advanced and efficient technologies, ...
Quality Polarization and International Trade
This paper builds a model that examines firm heterogeneity across two dimensions: productivity and quality. We show that when firms are able to choose their input quality and there exists a negative relationship between a ...
La financiación de la Renta Básica, un modelo de microsimulación
[spa] La financiación es uno de los aspectos de la Renta Básica en que más se ha avanzado en los últimos 10 o 12 años. Por Renta Básica aquí se entenderá en todo momento un ingreso pagado por el estado a cada miembro de ...
Educational expansion, intergenerational mobility and over-education
[eng] There is a vast literature on intergenerational mobility in sociology and economics. Similar interest has emerged for the phenomenon of over-education in both disciplines. There are no studies, however, linking these ...
Monge assignment games
Un juego de asignación se define por una matriz A; donde cada fila representa un comprador y cada columna un vendedor. Si el comprador i se empareja a un vendedor j; el mercado produce aij unidades de utilidad. Estudiamos ...
A note on the coincidence between Stackelberg and Nash equilibria in a differential game between government and firms
[cat] A Navas i Marín Solano es va demostrar la coincidència entre els equilibris de Nash i de Stackelberg per a una versi´o modificada del joc diferencial proposat por Lancaster (1973). Amb l’objectiu d’obtenir una ...
On the coincidence between the Shimomura's bargaining sets and the core
[cat] En l'article es dona una condició necessària per a que els conjunts de negociació definits per Shimomura (1997) i el nucli d'un joc cooperatiu amb utilitat transferible coincideixin. A tal efecte, s'introdueix el ...
Union power, minimum wage legislation endogenous labor supplies and production
The objective of this work is to study the impact of the unions' bargaining power on production and wages. We present a model where a competitive final good is produced through two substitutable intermediate goods, one ...
Who becomes an entrepreneur? The role of ability, education, and sector choice
The classical occupational choice model does not explain the simultaneous existence of low and high ability entrepreneurs. In this paper, we study the decision to become an entrepreneur when individuals choose their education ...
Height and Industrialisation in a City in Catalonia during the Nineteenth Century
Drawing on anthropometric information, this article investigates the evolution of the biological standard of living in nineteenth-century Catalonia. We focus on the city of Igualada, one of Catalonia’s main textile centres ...
Platform Price Parity Clauses and Segmentation [WP]
We investigate how the adoption of price parity clauses (PPCs) by established platforms affects the listing decisions of suppliers. PPCs have been widely adopted by online travel agencies (OTAs) to force client hotels not ...
