UB Economics (ERE): Enviaments recents
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One-seller assignment markets with multi-unit demands
We consider one-seller assignment markets with multi-unit demands and prove that the associated game is buyers-submodular. Therefore the core is non-empty and it has a lattice structure which contains the allocation where ...
The toys that made us: The role of game in gender gaps
Early gender gaps condition future educational decisions and labor market and social outcomes. There is extensive evidence reporting the existence of significant gender gaps in mathematical and scientific competencies at ...
El mercado de trabajo español en la unión monetaria : flexibilidad de salarios y política laboral
La baja movilidad espacial de la mano d'obra y la incapacidad estabilizadora del presupuesto comunitario como mecanismos de ajuste alternativos a la política monetaria y al tipo de cambio exigen que el mercado de trabajo ...
Term structure of interest rates. European financial integration
In this paper we estimate, analyze and compare the term structures of interest rates in six different countries over the period 1992-2004. We apply the Nelson-Siegel model to obtain the term structures of interest rates ...
Why Italy and not Spain?: comparing two industrialization processes from a dissagregate time-series perspective
This study presents new evidence concerning the uneven processes of industrialization in nineteenth century Spain and Italy based on a disaggregate analysis of the productive sectors from which the behaviour of the ...
Regional structure of wages and external economies in Spain
Regional data on wages for the Spanish economy show that workers who live in developed regions earn more than workers in other regions. Literature on external economies provides a possible explanation of why firms do not ...
Cotton manufacturers as bankers: the textile trade and credit in spain, 1840-1913
[cat] La historiografia ha assenyalat que en el segle XIX el crèdit que els fabricants cotoners catalans oferien als seus clients era de caràcter informal i, per tant, impossible de ser transferit al sistema bancari. Això ...
Cost stickiness revisited: Empirical aplication for farms
This article reviews previous research regarding cost stickiness and performs an empirical analysis applied to a sample of farms. It recognizes that modelization of cost stickiness is a particular case of representation ...
La licitud de l’interès: evolució històrica d’un tema de moral econòmica
[cat] El problema de la consideració de qualsevol interès com a usura i les formes per a evitar la condemna eclesiàstica foren uns dels principals temes econòmics i morals de l’Europa tradicional. Aquest paper mostra els ...
Mergers, branch consolidation and financial exclusion in the US bank market
We analyze the role of bank mergers as determinants of the evolution of branch presence at the county level. Panel regressions based on county-level branch density are used to study differences across urban versus rural ...
Segregation and preferences for redistribution
We study the relationship between segregation and preferences for redistribution in Europe. We measure segregation as the incidence of assortative mating in terms of education and occupation. Assortative mating is measured ...
The reform of the European Energy Tax Directive reform : effect on prices [WP]
[spa] Para hacer frente a los riesgos relacionados con la contaminación atmosférica, es ampliamente aceptada la necesidad de instrumentos de política encaminados a reducir las emisiones. La intervención tiene por objeto ...
From trade to industry. The wine production sector in the Penedès Denomination of Origin, 1940-2000
[cat] Aquest treball té com a objectiu mostrar el grau en què el sector de la producció de vi a la Denominació d'Origen Penedès ha respost als reptes que s’han plantejat tant en termes de l'oferta (de consolidació i sorgiment ...
Una comparación de la selección de los ratios contables en los modelos contable-financieros de predicción de la insolvencia empresarial : la literatura previa frente al analisis factorial
En los últimos 30 años la proliferación de modelos cuantitativos de predicción de la insolvencia empresarial en la literatura contable y financiera ha despertado un gran interés entre los especialistas e investigadores de ...
Lowering blood alcohol content levels to save lives: A European case study
Road safety has become an increasing concern in developed countries due to the significant amount of fatalities and the associated economic losses. Only in 2005 these losses rose to 200,000 million euros, a considerable ...
Income growth and atmospheric pollution in Spain: an input-output approach
The relationships between economic growth and environmental pressures are complex. Since the early nineties, the debate on these relationships has been strongly influenced by the Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis, ...
Qualitative social differentiation in tertiary education in Spain
[cat] En aquest treball, s'estudia si la hipòtesi de la desigualtat efectivament mantinguda “effectively maintained inequality” es cumpleix a Espanya. Es postula que en les transicions terciàries a Espanya, les influències ...
Induced aggregation operators in decision making with the Dempster-Shafer belief structure
We study the induced aggregation operators. The analysis begins with a revision of some basic concepts such as the induced ordered weighted averaging (IOWA) operator and the induced ordered weighted geometric (IOWG) operator. ...
The determinants of industrial location in Spain, 1856-1929
Durant el segle XIX, l'economia espanyola va transitar per les primeres etapes de la industrialització. Aquest procés es va donar en paral·lel a la integració del mercat domèstic de béns i factors, en un moment en què les ...
Automation and Job Polarization: On the Decline of Middling Occupations in Europe [WP]
Using data from 10 Western European countries, I provide evidence that the fall of prices of information technologies (IT) is associated with a lower share of employment in middle wage occupations and a higher share of ...
