Documents de recerca, en accés obert, com ara working papers, informes de recerca, memòries tècniques, etc., del Departament d'Economia i Empresa de la UPF.
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What can we learn from the Catalan Health System Observatory 2017 report on the population’s health in order to derive evidence based policies? Which insights do results offer about the mechanisms through that socioeconomic ...
Me propongo en este artículo analizar los principios y mecanismos articulables en el derecho
de protección de la salud. Quisiera evidenciar que la misión genérica que suele atribuirse a los
poderes del Estado en ...
Si en algún ámbito encontramos disociación entre la carga social que supone la
enfermedad y la escasa priorización que merece su abordaje en materia de
financiación es la salud mental. En este t ...
López i Casasnovas, Guillem; Rosselló Villalonga, Joan(2018)
Es muy tentador, desde una determinada percepción de la autonomía financiera, intentar resolver la distribución de recursos entre CC.AA a través de una cuantificación ‘técnica’ de necesidades territoriales. Esto es, que ...
La sostenibilitat és un concepte eminentment polític. És opinable la pressió fiscal que una economia pot suportar. Depèn de moltes coses. També del retorn de serveis públics, el context internacional en el que es competeix, ...
La tirantez de las relaciones entre los responsables de la economía y la asistencia sanitaria suele ser en muchos países un clásico en toda regla. La narrativa suele operar como sigue: El presidente del país se vanagloria ...
La crisi econòmica ens ha portat a probablement deu anys de retorn a la casella inicial del benestar social. No tan sols s’ha aturat la màquina que alimenta el seu finançament, des de la creació de renda i riquesa a la ...
The purpose of this paper is to pick up some of the best known clichés that surround the translation of the equivalent topics in health economics into health policy. These topics used to be distorted due to the inertia of ...
The paper identifies what value blockchain adds to the contractual and property processes, exploring its potential and analyzing the main difficulties it is facing. It argues that, contrary to naive conceptions that proclaim ...
Dow, William H.; Philipson, Tomas; Sala-i-Martin, Xavier, 1963-; Holmes, Jessica(1997-01-01)
Applying the competing--risks model to multi--cause mortality,
this paper provides a theoretical and empirical investigation of the
positive complementarities that occur between disease--specific policy
interventions. ...
The paper analyzes the effects of strategic behavior by an insider
in a price discovery process, akin to an information tatonnement,
in the presence of a competitive informed sector. Such processes
are used in the ...
Andrade, Philippe; Galí, Jordi, 1961-; Le Bihan, Hervé; Matheron, Julien(2017-12-11)
We study how changes in the value of the steady-state real interest rate affect the optimal inflation
target, both in the U.S. and the euro area, using an estimated New Keynesian DSGE model that incorporates
the zero (or ...
I analyze the basis of the market economy in classical Rome, from the perspective of personal-versus-impersonal exchange and focusing on the role of the state in providing market-enabling institutions. I start by reviewing ...
Baley, Isaac; Ljungqvist, Lars; Sargent, Thomas J.(2018-01-31)
Ljungqvist and Sargent (1998, 2008) show that worse skill transition probabilities for workers who suffer involuntary layoffs (i.e., increases in turbulence) generate higher unemployment in a welfare state. den Haan, Haefke ...
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 ...
Inspired by comments made by Allen (2017), Lueck (2017), Ménard (2017) and Smith
(2017), this response clarifies and deepens the analysis in Arruñada (2017a). Its main
argument is that to deal with the complexity of property ...