UB Economics (ERE): Recent submissions
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Viabilidad del sistema de pensiones y reformas por el lado de los ingresos: una aproximación intergeneracional
Este artículo, mediante el método de la Contabilidad Generacional, examina la viabilidad a largo plazo y los efectos sobre la redistribución intergeneracional de la renta del sistema de pensiones español. Dado la enorme ...
National Identity and the Preference for State Opting-Out in the Basque Country
We argue that preferences for secession are the expression of a common unobserved mechanisms determining national identity. This paper examines the hypothesis of independence of both preferences for secession (independent ...
Does partisan alignment affect the electoral reward of intergovernmental transfers? [WP ERE]
[spa] En este trabajo analizamos la hipótesis que las transferencias asignadas a los municipios políticamente alineados generan un mayor apoyo político que las transferencias asignada a los municipios gobernados por la ...
Health information and lifestyle behaviours: the impact of a diabetes diagnosis
We estimate short- and long-term causal impacts of a type-2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) diagnosis on lifestyle behaviours. We employ a fuzzy regression discontinuity design exploiting the exogenous cut-off value in the diagnosis ...
Income Inequality in French West Africa: Building Social Tables for Pre-Independence Senegal and Ivory Coast
Sub-Saharan Africa is home today to some of the most unequal countries in the world, in Southern and Central Africa, as well as others that are close to the world average, in Western Africa. Yet, there is no consensus ...
Technological Change and Immigration
We develop a simple model where two technologies are available to produce the same good, and we study under what conditions both will be used. We use the model to analyze the consequences of the simultaneous use of two ...
The First World War and coal trade geography in Latin America and the Caribbean (1890-1930)
This paper aims to illustrate the dynamics of coal trade between Latin America and its main trade partners, i.e. the USA, Great Britain and Germany, before and after the enormous disruption caused by the First World War. ...
Vertical integration or specialisation: producing and commercialising cotton goods (1815-1913)
This article describes the ways in which cotton goods were commercialised during the nineteenth century and the first third of the twentieth. Several national cases are analysed: Britain, as the Workshop of the World; ...
Sequential decisions in allocation problems
[eng] In the context of cooperative TU-games, and given an order of players, we consider the problem of distributing the worth of the grand coalition as a sequentia decision problem. In each step of process, upper and lower ...
Time of ruin in a risk model with generalized Erlang (n) interclaim times and a constant dividend barrier
In this paper we analyze the time of ruin in a risk process with the interclaim times being Erlang(n) distributed and a constant dividend barrier. We obtain an integro-differential equation for the Laplace Transform of ...
Racial quotas in higher education and pre-college academic performance : evidence from Brazil
The effects of affirmative action on the incentives to human capital accumulation are ambiguous from a theoretical perspective and the scarce empirical evidence on the matter provides mixed results. In this paper, we address ...
Endogenous growth with capital in R&D production functions
[eng] In this paper we claim that capital is as important in the production of ideas as in the production of final goods. Hence, we introduce capital in the production of knowledge and discuss the associated problems arising ...
Sectoral markups, factor substitution and factor-augmenting technical progress
We measure sectoral price markups, elasticities of substitution between capital and labor, and rates of factor-augmenting technical change in the United States from 1947 to 2010. Our approach utilizes the user cost of ...
Responses to a crisis: FASA-Renault in Spain during the 1970s
[cat] Aquest treball analitza la trajectòria de l’empresa FASA-Renault durant la dècada dels setanta del segle XX. Aquest període compren els primers anys de la crisis experimentada per l’economia i la industria espanyola ...
State capacity and the uneven cost of nation building: Language mismatch and literacy levels in Valencia
This paper studies the impact generated by the existence of a mismatch between the language of instruction and the language of use of the population in the context of the construction of the liberal state in Spain. In ...
Un modelo de riesgo de crédito basado en opciones compuestas con barrera. Aplicación al mercado continuo español
In this work the valuation methodology of compound option written on a downand- out call option, developed by Ericsson and Reneby (2003), has been applied to deduce a credit risk model. It is supposed that the firm has a ...
The generalized index of maximum and minimum level and its application in decision making
[spa] El índice del máximo y el mínimo nivel es una técnica muy útil, especialmente para toma de decisiones, que usa la distancia de Hamming y el coeficiente de adecuación en el mismo problema. En este trabajo, se propone ...
La Ley de Estabilidad Presupuestaria en el largo plazo: efecto del ciclo demográfico
La actual situación económica y las perspectivas presupuestarias a largo plazo han suscitado una discusión acerca de la conveniencia de la Ley de Estabilidad Presupuestaria. Este trabajo, empleando contabilidad generacional, ...
A characterization of cooperative TU-games with large monotonic core
[cat] El concepte de joc cooperatiu amb large core és introduït per Sharkey (1982) i el de Population Monotonic Allocation Scheme és definit per Sprumont (1990). Inspirat en aquests conceptes, Moulin (1990) introdueix la ...
Structural change and the income of nations
An increase in the supply of skilled labor has been common across the world. However, despite the rise in skilled labor force, not all countries have achieved high income levels, even when their structural transformation ...
