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  • Social economy companies in the times of crises: entrepreneurship and survival
    Masferrer Llabinés, Núria; Crespo, Patrícia; Buil Fabregá, Marian (OmniaScience, 2018)
    The work presented in this article is a study of the strategies carried out by social economy companies in times of crisis. This article analyses the financial characteristics of the cooperative companies created in Barcelona ...
  • Social impact of value-based banking: best practises and a continuity framework
    Kocornik-Mina, Adriana; Bastida Vialcanet, Ramon; Eguiguren Huerta, Marcos (MDPI, 2021)
    How do financial institutions enable social impact? We examined this question in the context of values-based financial institutions, which are amongst the most experienced institutions around the world in addressing the ...
  • The socioeconomic determinants of health: economic growth and health in the OECD countries during the last three decades
    López i Casasnovas, Guillem; Soley Bori, Marina (MDPI, 2014)
    In times of economic crisis, most countries face the dual challenge of fighting unemployment while restraining social expenditures and closing budget deficits. The spending cuts and lack of employment affect a large number ...
  • Socioeconomic inequalities in health and the use of healthcare services in Catalonia: analysis of the individual data of 7.5 million residents
    López i Casasnovas, Guillem (BMJ Publishing Group, 2019)
    Social protection systems are related to each community's culture. In most of the developed countries with welfare systems health care provides universal access to their population. Despite its achievements, the main ...
  • Socioeconomic inequalities in waiting times for planned and cancer surgery: evidence from Spain
    Bosque Mercader, Laia; Carrilero, Neus; García-Altés, Anna; López i Casasnovas, Guillem; Siciliani, Luigi (Wiley, 2023)
    Waiting times act as a non-price rationing mechanism to bring together the demand for and the supply of public healthcare services and ensure equal access independently of ability to pay. This study tests for the presence ...
  • Solving a concrete sleepers production scheduling by genetic algorithms
    Pérez Vázquez, María Elena; Gento Municio, Angel Manuel; Ramalhinho-Lourenço, Helena (Elsevier, 2007)
    PRECON S.A. is a manufacturing company devoted to produce prefabricated concrete parts for several industries as railway transportation and agricultural industries. Recently, PRECON S.A. signed a contract with RENFE, the ...
  • Sorting and decentralized price competition
    Eeckhout, Jan; Kircher, Philipp Albert Theodor (Econometric Society, 2010)
    We investigate the role of search frictions in markets with price competition and how it leads to sorting of heterogeneous agents. There are two aspects of value creation: the match value when two agents actually trade and ...
  • Sorting in the labor market
    Eeckhout, Jan (Annual Reviews, 2018)
    This review surveys the literature on sorting in the labor market. There are inherent differences in worker ability and across-firm productivity. Two fundamental questions are whether the exact composition of skills of ...
  • Sorting through search and matching models in economics
    Chade, Hector; Eeckhout, Jan; Smith, Lones (American Economic Association, 2017)
    Toward understanding assortative matching, this is a self-contained introduction to research on search and matching. We first explore the nontransferable and perfectly transferable utility matching paradigms, and then a ...
  • Sorting versus screening: search frictions and competing mechanisms
    Eeckhout, Jan; Kircher, Philipp Albert Theodor (Elsevier, 2010)
    In a market where sellers compete by posting trading mechanisms, we allow for a general search technology and show that its features crucially affect the equilibrium mechanism. Price posting prevails when meetings are ...
  • Spatial sorting
    Eeckhout, Jan; Pinheiro, Roberto; Schmidheiny, Kurt (University of Chicago Press, 2014)
    We investigate the role of skill complementarities in production and mobility across cities. The nature of the complementarities determines the equilibrium skill distribution across cities. With extreme-skill complementarity, ...
  • Specialty choice in times of economic crisis: a cross-sectional survey of Spanish medical students
    Harris, Jeffrey E.; González López-Valcárcel, Beatriz; Ortún Rubio, Vicente; Barber Pérez, Patricia (BMJ Publishing Group, 2013)
    Objective: To investigate the determinants of specialty choice among graduating medical students in Spain, a country that entered into a severe, ongoing economic crisis in 2008. Setting: Since 2008, the percentage of ...
  • Specification analysis for technology use and teenager well-being: statistical validity and a bayesian proposal
    Semken, Christoph; Rossell Ribera, David (Oxford University Press, 2022)
    A key issue in science is assessing robustness to data analysis choices, while avoiding selective reporting and providing valid inference. Specification Curve Analysis is a tool intended to prevent selective reporting. ...
  • Spending response to cash transfers to shield households from inflation: evidence from bank accounts
    Aspachs, Oriol; Graziano, Alberto; Mestres, Josep; Montalvo, Jose G.; Reynal-Querol, Marta (Elsevier, 2024)
    We use daily data from a large Spanish financial institution to analyze the spending responses to a one-off cash transfer to mitigate the impact of the surge in inflation during the 2022-2023 period. Using a staggered ...
  • SQL to SPARQL conversion for direct RDF querying
    Abatal, Ahmed; Alaoui, Khadija; Bahaj, Mohamed; Alaoui, Larbi (SAI Organization, 2019)
    With the advances in native storage means of RDF data and associated querying capabilities using SPARQL, there is a need to let SQL users benefit from such capabilities for interoperability objectives and without any ...
  • Stagnation traps
    Benigno, Gianluca; Fornaro, Luca (Oxford University Press, 2018)
    We provide a Keynesian growth theory in which pessimistic expectations can lead to very persistent, or even permanent, slumps characterized by high unemployment and weak growth. We refer to these episodes as stagnation ...
  • State dependence of fiscal multipliers: the source of fluctuations matters
    Ghassibe, Mishel; Zanetti, Francesco (Elsevier, 2022)
    We develop a general theory of state-dependent fiscal multipliers in a framework featuring two empirically relevant frictions: idle capacity and unsatisfied demand. Our key novel finding is that the source of fluctuations ...
  • Statistical vhallenges in tracking the evolution of SARS-CoV-2
    Cappello, Lorenzo; Kim, Jaehee; Liu, Sifan; Palacios, Julia A. (Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 2022)
    Genomic surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 has been instrumental in tracking the spread and evolution of the virus during the pandemic. The availability of SARS-CoV-2 molecular sequences isolated from infected individuals, coupled ...
  • Sustainability in the opera sector: main drivers and limitations to improve the environmental performance of scenography
    Roca, Mercè; Albertí, Jaume; Bala, Alba; Batlle-Bayer, Laura; Ribas Tur, Joan; Fullana-i-Palmer, Pere (MDPI, 2021)
    Private and public organizations are becoming increasingly involved in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. This includes organizations within the cultural sector, with a central role in the progress of society. ...
  • Sustainability practices and student satisfaction in business schools: the role of notoriety and internationalization
    Bagur-Femenías, Llorenç; Llach, Josep; Elvira, Oscar; Buil Fabregá, Marian (Intangible Capital, 2023)
    Purpose: The objective of this work is to determine whether the effort of business schools in terms of sustainability policies improves student satisfaction through boosting the internationalization of the institution and ...

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