• Transaction-tax evasion in the housing market

  Garcia Montalvo, José; Piolatto, Amedeo; Raya, Josep M. (2019-03-01)

  We model the behaviour of a buyer trying to evade the real estate transfer tax. We identify over-appraisal as a key, easily-observable element that is inversely related with tax evasion. We conclude that the tax authority ...
• Media persuasion through slanted language: Evidence from the coverage of immigration

  Djourelova, Milena (2020-05-02)

  Can the language used by mass media to cover policy relevant issues affect readers' policy preferences? I examine this question for the case of immigration, exploiting an abrupt ban on the term "illegal immigrant" in wire ...
• The evolution of inequity in the access to health care in Spain: 1987-2001

  García Gómez, Pilar; López, Ángel (2004-03-01)

  This paper reports an analysis of the evolution of equity in access to health care in Spain over the period 1987-2001, a time span covering the development of the modern Spanish National Health System. Our measures of ...
• The political economy of transportation investment

  Ponzetto, Giacomo A. M.; Glaeser, Edward L. (2017-01-01)

  Will politics lead to over-building or under-building of transportation projects? In this paper, we develop a model of infrastructure policy in which politicians overdo things that have hidden costs and underperform tasks ...
• Gender and credit risk: a view from the loan officer's desk

  Garcia Montalvo, José; Reynal-Querol, Marta (2019-03-01)

  In this paper we analyze the effect of loan offcers' gender on the approval of loans and, in particular, on their subsequent performance. Using detailed bank information on a sample of close to half a million loans, we ...
• An overall perspective on banking regulation

  Freixas, Xavier (2003-02-01)

  We survey the theory of banking regulation from the general perspective of regulatory theory. Starting by considering the different justifications of financial intermediation, we proceed to identify the market failures ...
• Heterogeneity, selection and labor market disparities

  Bonfiglioli, Alessandra; Gancia, Gino (2013-10-01)

  We propose a model in which differences in socioeconomic and labor market outcomes between ex-ante identical countries can be generated as multiple equilibria sustained by different beliefs on the value of effort for finding ...
• Dual decision processes: retrieving preferences when some choices are automatic

  Cerigioni, Francesco (2019-10-11)

  Evidence from the cognitive sciences suggests that some choices are conscious and reflect individual volition while others tend to be automatic, being driven by analogies with past experiences. Under these circumstances, ...
• Funding academic research: grant application, partnership, award, and output

  Banal-Estañol, Albert; Macho-Stadler, Inés; Pérez-Castillo, David (2019-05-02)

  Funding agencies tend to allocate (scarce) resources using a bottom-up competitive process. This paper analyzes the determinants and the consequences of the choices made in each of the stages of the funding process. We ...
• Social spending and demographics: The role of public policies in the intergenerational redistribution of income. Empirical evidence from Spain and Catalonia

  López, Guillem; Mosterin, Ana (2006-11-01)

  The demographic shift underway in Southern Europe requires a revision of some of the fundamental principles of the traditional welfare state. We analyze the evolution of several aspects of welfare and social expenditure ...
• Electoral platforms, implemented policies and abstention

  Llavador, Humberto (2001-09-01)

  Recent studies of American politics evidence that political polarization of both the electorate and the political elite have moved 'almost in tandem for the past half century' (McCarty et al., 2003, p.2), and that party ...
• Implicit collusion on wide spreads

  Biais, Bruno; Foucault, Thierry; Salani, François (1995-12-01)

  Recent empirical findings suggest that spreads quoted in dealership markets might be uncompetitive. This paper analyzes theoretically if price competition between risk--averse market--makers leaves room for implicit collusive ...
• Gains from wage flexibility and the zero lower bound

  Billi, Roberto M.; Galí, Jordi (2018-12-01)

  We analyze the welfare impact of greater wage flexibility while taking into account explicitly the existence of the zero lower bound (ZLB) constraint on the nominal interest rate. We show that the ZLB constraint generally ...
• The quasi-judicial role of large retailers: An efficiency hypothesis of their relation with suppliers

  Arruñada, Benito (2000-01-01)

  The paper explores an efficiency hypothesis regarding the contractual process between large retailers, such as Wal-Mart and Carrefour, and their suppliers. The empirical evidence presented supports the idea that large ...
• Existence of sparsely supported correlated equilibria

  Germano, Fabrizio; Lugosi, Gábor (2005-10-01)

  We show that every finite N-player normal form game possesses a correlated equilibrium with a precise lower bound on the number of outcomes to which it assigns zero probability. In particular, the largest games with a ...
• The institutions of Roman markets

  Arruñada, Benito (2015-03-01)

  The chapter analyzes the basis of the market economy in classical Rome, from the perspective of personal vs impersonal exchange and focusing on the role of the state in providing market-enabling institutions. It starts by ...
• Credit supply and monetary policy: Identifying the bank balance-sheet channel with loan applications

  Jimenez, Gabriel; Ongena, Steven; Peydró, José-Luis; Saurina, Jesús (2010-09-01)

  We analyze the impact of monetary policy on the supply of bank credit. Monetary policy affects both loan supply and demand, thus making identification a steep challenge. We therefore analyze a novel, supervisory dataset ...
• Stagnation traps

  Benigno, Gianluca; Fornaro, Luca (2015-01-01)

  We provide a Keynesian growth theory in which pessimistic expectations can lead to very persistent, or even permanent, slumps characterized by unemployment and weak growth. We refer to these episodes as stagnation traps, ...
• Underpromise and overdeliver? – Online product reviews and firm pricing

  Martin, Simon; Shelegia, Sandro (2019-10-24)

  This paper presents a quality signaling model with consumer reviews. Reviews refl ect true quality as well as consumers' expectations of quality, improving with the former and worsening with the latter. Expectation-based ...
• Educational opportunity and the college premium

  Hendel, Igal; Shapiro, Joel; Willen, Paul (2001-05-01)

  Since World War II, the United States government has made improved access to higher education a priority. This e¤ort has substantially increased the number of people who complete college. We show that by reducing the ...

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