• Improving the accessibility to public schools in urban areas of developing countries through a location model and an analytical framework

  De Armas, Jésica; Ramalhinho-Lourenço, Helena; Reynal-Querol, Marta (Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2022)

  The location of primary public schools in urban areas of developing countries is the focus of this study. In such areas, new schools and modification of the current schools are required, and this process should be developed ...
• The origin of the state: land productivity or appropriability?

  Mayshar, Joram; Moav, Omer; Pascali, Luigi (University of Chicago Press, 2022)

  The conventional theory about the origin of the state is that the adoption of farming increased land productivity, which led to the production of food surplus. This surplus was a prerequisite for the emergence of tax-levying ...
• Land titling and litigation

  Arruñada, Benito; Fabbri, Marco; Faure, Michael (University of Chicago Press, 2022)

  We study a land-titling reform implemented as a randomized control trial to isolate its effects on litigation. The reform consisted of demarcating land parcels, registering existing customary rights, and granting additional ...
• Herding through booms and busts

  Schaal, Edouard; Taschereau-Dumouchel, Mathieu (Elsevier, 2023)

  This paper explores whether rational herding can generate endogenous aggregate fluctuations. We embed a tractable model of rational herding into a business cycle framework. In the model, technological innovations arrive ...
• Concentration of posterior model probabilities and normalized L0 criteria

  Rossell Ribera, David (International Society for Bayesian Analysis, 2022)

  We study frequentist properties of Bayesian and L0 model selection, with a focus on (potentially non-linear) high-dimensional regression. We propose a construction to study how posterior probabilities and normalized L0 ...
• Heterogeneous large datasets integration using Bayesian factor regression

  Avalos-Pacheco, Alejandra; Rossell Ribera, David; Savage, Richard S. (International Society for Bayesian Analysis, 2022)

  Two key challenges in modern statistical applications are the large amount of information recorded per individual, and that such data are often not collected all at once but in batches. These batch effects can be complex, ...
• Exploratory data analysis on large data sets: the example of salary variation in Spanish Social Security Data

  Nicodemo, Catia; Satorra, Albert (SAGE Publications, 2022)

  New challenges arise in data visualization when the research involves a sizable database. With many data points, classical scatterplots are non-informative due to the cluttering of points. On the contrary, simple plots, ...
• A pandemic treaty for equitable global access to medical countermeasures: seven recommendations for sharing intellectual property, know-how and technology

  Perehudoff, Katrina; Hoen, Ellen 't; Mara, Kaitlin; Balasubramaniam, Thirukumaran; Abbott, Frederick; Baker, Brook; Boulet, Pascale; Kamal-Yanni, Mohga; Martin, Manuel; Munoz Tellez, Viviana; Natsis, Yannis; Ortún Rubio, Vicente; Rathod, Sandeep; Torrent, Maties; Vawda, Yousuf; Villarroel, Luis; Love, James (BMJ Publishing Group, 2022)

  The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted how current international laws and practices fail to ensure medical countermeasures (ie, vaccines, therapeutics, diagnostics and personal protective equipment) are equitably distributed ...
• General Bayesian loss function selection and the use of improper models

  Jewson, Jack; Rossell Ribera, David (Oxford University Press, 2022)

  Statisticians often face the choice between using probability models or a paradigm defined by minimising a loss function. Both approaches are useful and, if the loss can be re-cast into a proper probability model, there ...
• Assessing banks’ resilience: a complementary approach to stress testing using fair values from banks’ financial statements

  Dao, Trang H.; Pugliese, Amedeo; Ronen, Joshua (Wiley, 2022)

  For more than a decade, supervisory banking authorities in Europe and the United States have sought to assess the resilience of banks to adverse economic episodes to safeguard the financial system's stability. They rely ...
• Assortative learning

  Eeckhout, Jan; Weng, Xi (Wiley, 2022)

  Because of sorting, more skilled workers are more productive in higher-type firms. They also learn at different rates about their productivity and therefore expect different wage paths across firms. We show that under ...
• Drivers of depositor discipline in credit unions

  Gómez Biscarri, Javier; López-Espinosa, Germán; Mesa-Toro, Andrés (Wiley, 2022)

  In this paper, we analyze whether credit unions are subject to market discipline by their (member) depositors and examine the drivers of such discipline. We first provide descriptive evidence of depositor discipline in ...
• Across the pond: how US firms' boards of directors adapted to the passage of the general data protection regulation

  Klein, April; Manini, Raffaele; Shi, Yanting (Crystal) (Wiley, 2022)

  One of the prime responsibilities of the board of directors is to understand and oversee its firm's risk profile. We exploit a recent European Union (EU) regulation, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), as a ...
• Optimal convergence rates for the invariant density estimation of jump-diffusion processes

  Amorino, Chiara; Nualart, Eulàlia (EDP Sciences, 2022)

  We aim at estimating the invariant density associated to a stochastic differential equation with jumps in low dimension, which is for d = 1 and d = 2. We consider a class of fully non-linear jump diffusion processes whose ...
• Impact of service quality and environmental practices on hotel companies: an empirical approach

  Perramon, Jordi; Oliveras Villanueva, Marc; Llach, Josep (Elsevier, 2022)

  Interest in sustainability and service quality practices in hospitality is increasing in professional and academic communities. Most of the existing literature about hotel companies is focused on a single practice at a ...
• Revealing the reactivity of individual chemical entities in complex mixtures: the chemistry behind bio-oil upgrading

  Palacio Lozano, Diana Catalina; Jones, Hugh E.; Gavard, Remy; Thomas, Mary J.; Ramírez, Claudia X.; Wootton, Christopher A.; Sarmiento Chaparro, José Aristóbulo; O’Connor, Peter B.; Spencer, Simon E. F.; Rossell Ribera, David; Mejia-Ospino, Enrique; Witt, Matthias; Barrow, Mark P. (American Chemical Society (ACS), 2022)

  Bio-oils are precursors for biofuels but are highly corrosive necessitating further upgrading. Furthermore, bio-oil samples are highly complex and represent a broad range of chemistries. They are complex mixtures not simply ...
• Business model diversification: demand relatedness, entry sequencing, and curvilinearity in the diversification-performance relationship

  Sohl, Timo; McCann, Brian T.; Vroom, Govert (Elsevier, 2022)

  This study integrates research on business model diversification (BMD) and demand-side theory to examine the relationship of BMD to performance and the sequencing of business model additions. We begin by explaining and ...
• Academic integrity in on-line exams: evidence from a randomized field experiment

  Klijn, Flip; Mdaghri Alaoui, Mehdi; Vorsatz, Marc (Elsevier, 2022)

  We study academic integrity in a final exam of a compulsory course with almost 500 undergraduate students at a major Spanish university. Confinement and university closure due to Covid-19 took place by the end of the last ...
• Cash transfers before pregnancy and infant health

  González, Libertad; Trommlerová, Sofia Karina (Elsevier, 2022)

  We estimate the impact of a cash transfer targeting new mothers on their subsequent children's health outcomes at birth. We exploit the unexpected introduction of a generous, universal child benefit in Spain in 2007. Using ...
• Entropy, directionality theory and the evolution of income inequality

  Germano, Fabrizio (Elsevier, 2022)

  A macro-evolutionary theory of income inequality is proposed that is based on a society’s dynamic income generating process. Two types of processes are distinguished, namely dispersing and concentrating ones. A basic result ...

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