UB Economics (ERE): Recent submissions
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Solving Becker's assortative assignments and extensions
We analyze assortative assignment games, introduced in Becker (1973) and Eriksson et al. (2000). We study the extreme core points and show an easy way to compute them. We find a natural solution for these games. It coincides ...
Land use changes, landscape ecology and their socioeconomic driving forces in the Spanish Mediterranean coast (the Maresme County, 1850-2005)
[cat] Utilitzem un conjunt de mètriques del paisatge per estudiar l'evolució a llarg termini seguida en una típica zona costanera del Mediterrani des de 1850 fins a 2005, que mostren una greu deterioració del medi ambient ...
Capital humano local y productividad en las provincias españolas
En la última década, distintos estudios han intentado contrastar empíricamente la existencia de una relación entre el stock de capital humano local y la productividad del territorio, así como la posible presencia de ...
Fossil resource depletion and climate change emissions: the role of physical constrictions
[spa] En lo que concierne al cambio climático, los pronósticos de cercanos picos de combustible fósiles parecen buenas noticias pues la mayoría de las emisiones proceden de la quema de combustibles fósiles. Sin embargo, ...
New evidence of the real interest rate parity for OECD countries using panel unit root tests with breaks
This paper tests for real interest parity (RIRP) among the nineteen major OECD countries over the period 1978:Q2-1998:Q4. The econometric methods applied consist of combining the use of several unit root or stationarity ...
Extending the Kuznets Curve
[cat] Les darreres dècades s’han caracteritzat per un intens augment de les desigualtats salarials a nivell mundial. Aquest article allarga la hipòtesi clàssica de la Corba de Kuznets per cobrir les economies post-industrials ...
The Effect of a threshold proportional reinsurance strategy on ruin probabilities
[spa] En un modelo de Poisson compuesto, definimos una estrategia de reaseguro proporcional de umbral : se aplica un nivel de retención k1 siempre que las reservas sean inferiores a un determinado umbral b, y un nivel de ...
On the industry experience premium and labor mobility [WP]
[cat] Hi ha evidència que l'experiència es remunera diferentment segons la indústria. Proposem un model teòric que explica aquestes diferències. Suposem que la mobilitat de treballadors aporta coneixement extern a l'empresa ...
The determinants of CAP reform: learning from the European financial crisis and CAP 2013
There is an ongoing debate on which are the determinants of CAP reform. The economic environment has not been contemplated as a direct determinant of CAP reform but its proxy, the budget, has not only been looked at as ...
Growth, unemployment and wage inertia [WP]
We introduce wage setting via efficiency wages in the neoclassical one-sector growth model to study the growth effects of wage inertia. We compare the dynamic equilibrium of an economy with wage inertia with the equilibrium ...
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 ...
A theoretical and practical study on linear reforms of dual taxes
[cat] En aquest treball extenem les reformes lineals introduïdes per Pfähler (1984) al cas d’impostos duals. Estudiem l’efecte relatiu que els retalls lineals duals d’un impost dual tenen sobre la distribució de la desigualtat ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Decomposing Cross-Country Gaps in Obesity and Overweight: Does the Social Environment Matter?
[cat] Una qüestió clau sobre la producció de salut relativament poc explorada es refereix a la influència dels factors socioeconòmics i mediambientals sobre el pes i l’obesitat. Aquesta problemàtica adquireix particular ...
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 ...
Public health expenditure and spatial interactions in a decentralized national health system
One of the limitations of cross-country health expenditure analysis refers to the fact that the financing, the internal organization and political restraints of health care decision-making are country-specific and ...
