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Master's Degree in Specialized Economic Analysis
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Master Theses authored by students of the Master's Degree in Specialized Economic Analysis, a program jointly organized by UAB-UPF and the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (BGSE)
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(2018)Given the increased use and dependence of peer-to-peer markets on algorithmic optimisation processes, the problems biased algorithms may bring about for individuals have been gaining significance. With the emergence of the ...
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(2018)Regarding competition policy, there has been a concern about the use of algorithms to commit anticompetitive acts. As it is proven, the use of algorithms facilitates agreements, but at the same time, authorities may have ...
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(2018)The goal of this paper is to assess quantitatively the impact that the emergence of China in the international markets during the 1990s had on the U.S. economy (i.e. the so-called China Shock). To do so, I build a model ...
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(2018)We capitalise on the 2006 implementation of a minimum wage for the hospitality sector to make well-evidenced inferences about the impact of the upcoming National Minimum Wage (NMW) Legislation on low-wage workers. Our paper ...
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(2018)In this thesis, we provide evidence on the transmission of U.S. monetary policy shocks to the Korean economy. First, we show that there are spillovers of U.S. monetary policy shocks to Korean domestic credit and real ...
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(2018)This paper analyzes whether access to imported intermediate goods can raise export performance of Russian firms. We employ an instrumental variable strategy which exploits variation in firm-specific input tariffs to identify ...
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(2018)We combine the basic Diamond (1982), Mortensen (1982), and Pissarides (1985) (DMP) labor market matching model with the one proposed by Autor et al. (2006) to analyze the labor market equilibria in a framework with frictions, ...
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(2018)The application of Article 102 to rebates has been chaotic and entrenched in an object-based approach. This is fundamentally awed because it ignores the material economic effects that may arise from rebates. Although they ...
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(2018)Under the context of digital platforms who act as an intermediary between consumers and sellers, Price Parity Clauses (PPCs) is a contractual restriction for the seller not to sell at a lower price through any other channel ...
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(2018)This study attempts to analyze the effect of the non-contributory Costa Rican pension in employment, schooling, household composition and changes in well-being at household level. This regime has been granted since 1975 ...
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(2018)This paper investigates whether news broadcaster mergers can lead to reduction the plurality of viewpoints offered in the market. The existing academic literature downplays this risk by demonstrating that the incentive to ...
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(2018)This paper analyzes the impact of a cash transfer program targeting households in extreme poverty, Tarjeta Uruguay Social, on a variety of life outcomes. A fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Design is implemented by using ...
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(2018)In this paper, we study the dynamics and drivers of sovereign bond yields in euro area countries, using a panel data and a time varying coefficient approach with GARCH volatility, which allows for capturing changes in the ...
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(2017)We analyze the impact of the construction of bike lanes in Barcelona during 2015 and 2016 on the number of trips of a public bicycle-share system. We use different specifications of control groups and also different ...
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(2017)The emerging practice of price discrimination based on Big Data will enable firms, especially online retailers to increase their profitability while consumers fear to be the losers of the game. A study of Netflix services ...
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(2017)This report reviews data-driven mergers by focusing on two main competition challenges associated with them. Departing from the economic characteristics of data-driven markets, we analyze the unreplicable competitive ...
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(2017)This paper aims to replicate Michael Creel’s work in ”Neural Nets for Indi-rect Inference” by calibrating a heterogeneous agent model. Michael Creel proposes to use neural networks to approximate the limited posterior mean, ...
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(2017)This paper analyses how a dollarized country is affected by a financial crisis, since a different response is expected due to the lack of independent monetary policy. The study focuses on the case of the dollarized economy ...
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(2017)This paper uses household-level survey data from the USAID and the Colombian government to analyse the e˙ect of the Code of Childhood and Adolescence of 2006, which raised the minimum working age from 12 to 15, on the ...
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(2017)Extending an Aiyagari-Huggett style model to include health-related produc-tivity shocks with wealth-dependent probability of occurrence, this paper sets out to assess the implications of introducing a guaranteed minimum ...
