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)
In recent years, large platforms have raised concerns that they may engage in anticompetitive practices that affect the market competition. Therefore, analyze the competition structure inside platforms is a relevant issue ...
This report present a conceptual and empirical analysis of the Chilean Antitrust Authority's decision in the upstream dairy market. In 2004, the Antitrust Court decided that the biggest milk processors should not discriminate ...
We undertook an ex-post analysis of a 2013 Agreement in the Netherlands to close five aging coal power plants in 2016 and 2017. First, we evaluate the Authority for Consumers and Markets’ (ACM) assumption that the plant ...
Akker, Ruben van den; Hammad, Nour; Marin, Alexandre(2021-07-24)
Mental health outcomes significantly deteriorated in the United Kingdom as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, particularly for younger individuals. This paper uses data from the Millennium Cohort Study to investigate the ...
Blanchard, Thomas Jonathan Yasue; Masdottir, Katrin Svava; Schuelke, Lukas; Tully, Marc Robert(2021-06-11)
Natural disasters frequently happen in Indonesia. However, the May 27, 2006 Yogyakarta earthquake still stands out with a magnitude of 6.3 on the Richter Scale. The total financial cost caused by the earthquake was US$ 3.1 ...
In 2016, the first shipment left Ethiopia’s capital for Djibouti port, which handles 90% of Ethiopia’s international trade. The revolutionary 753km single-track electrified railway reduced the journey from 84 hours to 15 ...
The reform of the European fiscal framework is a live debate and a need recently recognized by the European Commission. Surges in public debt as a result of the COVID-19 crisis intensify the debate, while the structural ...
Shocks to the European Central bank’s unconventional monetary policy trigger Dutch pension funds to search for yield: A structural VAR analysis shows that the pension funds reallocate their asset holdings from bonds towards ...
This paper explores the role of soft skills in the U.S. labor market. According to the previous literature, these skills – also called non-cognitive- are crucial as they allow firms to lower coordination costs by trading ...
How does a sudden migrant crisis affect criminal activity, and through which mechanisms does this effect take place? We approach this topic by studying the effect of Venezuelan migration on crime rates in Colombia, in the ...
We employ a dynamic panel fixed effects model to assess the macroeconomic consequences of natural disasters in Africa and the effectiveness of debt relief in promoting post-disaster recovery. Our results show that floods ...
This paper examines the wages and career prospects of employees in flexible work arrangements (FWAs). Using the British Household Panel Survey, we analyse the effect being in a FWA has on hourly wages and the likelihood ...
Condessa, Bruna; Salat, Isabel; Palacio, Maria Clara(2020-07)
Using microeconomic data from the Family Expenditure Survey (FES), we investigate whether conventional and unconventional monetary policies played a role in explaining the evolution of British inequality over time. By ...
The potential liberalization of the Chilean retail electricity market has raised important uncertainty regarding the effects of retail prices on inequality. This work models the price effects after liberalization and ...
The Global Financial Crisis prompted central banks to adopt unconventional monetary policies such as the asset purchase programmes. In our thesis, we analyse whether securities purchases carried out by the ECB have had an ...
Asymmetric pricing in the retail fuel market describes the situation in which retail prices are adjusted quickly in case of positive shocks in the wholesale costs, whereas the adjustment is much slower in case of negative ...
The Spanish Free to air TV industry is a two-sided market in which viewers demand TV programs and advertisers demand spots whose price depend mainly on audience. We specify Viewers Demand through a logit model and Advertisers ...
This paper studies how policy uncertainty and political connection has affected Venezuelan banks’ performance and lending activities. We use monthly microdata from the Venezuela’s Superintendence of Banks and we construct ...
This research arises in a context of strong debate on the effectiveness of merger control and how competition authorities assess the potential anticompetitive effects of mergers. In order to contribute to the discussion, ...
Using household survey data from rural Bangladesh, we explore determinants of domestic violence. We propose two hypotheses: first, women suffer more domestic abuse as a result of marrying young; and second, women who are ...