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  • Trade liberalization, exports, and technology upgrading: evidence on the impact of MERCOSUR on Argentinian firms
    Bustos, Paula (American Economic Association, 2011)
    This paper studies the impact of a regional free trade agreement, MERCOSUR, on technology upgrading by Argentinean firms. To guide empirical work, I introduce technology choice in a model of trade with heterogeneous firms. ...
  • Trade sanctions and international market integration: evidence from the sanctions on Iranian methanol exports
    Massol, Olivier; Hache, Emmanuel; Banal Estañol, Albert (Wiley, 2024)
    This paper examines the impact of trade sanctions, imposed against large exporting nations, on the degree of spatial integration achieved between non-sanctioned importing markets. The analysis is conducted under a parity ...
  • Trade, finance and endogenous firm heterogeneity
    Bonfiglioli, Alessandra; Crinò, Rosario; Gancia, Gino A. (Oxford University Press, 2019)
    We study how financial frictions affect firm-level heterogeneity and trade. We build a model in which productivity differences across monopolistically competitive firms are endogenous and depend on investment decisions at ...
  • Trade-off entre cuidados formales e informales en Europa
    Vilaplana Prieto, Cristina; García Gómez, Pilar; Jiménez-Martín, Sergi (Elsevier, 2011)
    Objetivo En este trabajo se estudia la relación entre cuidados personales formales e informales para la población dependiente en un conjunto de países europeos. Métodos Se utilizan datos del Survey of Health, Ageing ...
  • Training with AI: evidence from chess computers
    Gaessler, Fabian; Piezunka, Henning (Wiley, 2023)
    We suggest that AI can help decision-makers learn; specifically, that it can help them learn strategic interactions by serving as artificial training partners and thus help them to overcome a bottleneck of scarce human ...
  • Transient elastography for screening of liver fibrosis: cost-effectiveness analysis from six prospective cohorts in Europe and Asia
    Serra Burriel, Miquel; Graupera, Isabel; Toran, Pere; Thiele, Maja; Roulot, Dominique; Wai-Sun Wong, Vincent; Neil Guha, Indra; Fabrellas, Núria; Arslanow, Anita; Expósito, Carmen; Hernández, Rosario; Lai-Hung Wong, Grace; Harman, David; Darwish Murad, Sarwa; Krag, Aleksander; Pera, Guillem; Angeli, Paolo; Galle, Peter; Aithal, Guruprasad; Caballería Rovira, Llorenç; Castera, Laurent; Ginès, Pere; Lammert, Frank (Elsevier, 2019)
    Background & Aims Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and alcohol-related liver disease pose an important challenge to current clinical healthcare pathways because of the large number of at-risk patients. Therefore, we aimed ...
  • Transparencia y buen gobierno en sanidad. También para salir de la crisis
    Meneu, Ricardo; Ortún Rubio, Vicente (Elsevier, 2011)
    Los países prosperan sobre una base económica que permita desarrollar las potencialidades humanas en una sociedad que no renuncie a grandes logros, como el del estado del bienestar. Ello requiere que sus “reglas de juego”, ...
  • Trets comuns de les Start up amb èxit a Catalunya
    Llonch Casanovas, Montserrat; Monllau Jaques, Teresa M.; Ripoll, Enric; Arasa, M. Josep; Pla, Jordi; Alemany Costa, Josepa (OmniaScience, 2014)
    Objecte: El treball que presentem en aquest document és la primera part d’una investigació realitzada per el Grup de Treball de la Comissió de Valoració d’Empreses de l’ACCID, que té com a objectiu analitzar els factors ...
  • Truly standard‐essential patents? A semantics‐based analysis
    Brachtendorf, Lorenz; Gaessler, Fabian; Harhoff, Dietmar (Wiley, 2023)
    Standard-essential patents (SEPs) have become a key element of technical coordination via standard-setting organizations. Yet, in many cases, it remains unclear whether a declared SEP is truly standard-essential. To date, ...
  • Turning around teacher quality in Latin America: renewed confidence and lessons from Colombia
    Brutti, Zelda; Sánchez Torres, Fabio (Elsevier, 2022)
    We present new evidence on the effectiveness of large-scale reforms of public teaching careers towards improving student outcomes in Latin America. Since 2002, Colombia’s public teacher candidates are screened through an ...
  • Typologies of industrialization: lessons from Spain
    Carreras, Albert (L'Harmattan, 2019)
    Here we examine what we learn with the different typologies of industrialization (Clark, Hoffman, Rostow, Gerschenkron, Lewis, Chenery, Adelman, etc.) to understand the pitfalls, disappointments and successes of the Spanish ...
  • Uncertain rationality, depth of reasoning and robustness in games with incomplete information
    Germano, Fabrizio; Weinstein, Jonathan; Zuazo-Garin, Peio (Econometric Society, 2019)
    Predictions under common knowledge of payoffs may differ from those under arbitrarily, but finitely, many orders of mutual knowledge; Rubinstein's (1989)Email game is a seminal example. Weinstein and Yildiz (2007) showed ...
  • Uncertainty and unemployment
    Schaal, Edouard (Econometric Society, 2017)
    This paper studies the impact of time-varying idiosyncratic risk at the establishmentlevel on unemployment fluctuations over 1972–2009. I build a tractable directed searchmodel with firm dynamics and time-varying idiosyncratic ...
  • Uncertainty traps
    Fajgelbaum, Pablo; Schaal, Edouard; Taschereau-Dumouchel, Mathieu (Oxford University Press, 2017)
    We develop a theory of endogenous uncertainty and business cycles in which short-lived shocks can generate long-lasting recessions. In the model, higher uncertainty about fundamentals discourages investment. Since agents ...
  • Uncovered interest parity, forward guidance and the exchange rate
    Galí, Jordi, 1961- (Wiley, 2021)
    Under uncovered interest parity (UIP), the size of the effect on the real exchange rate of an anticipated change in real interest rate differentials is invariant to the horizon at which the change is expected. Empirical ...
  • Understanding the gains from wage flexibility: the exchange rate connection
    Galí, Jordi, 1961-; Monacelli, Tommaso (American Economic Association, 2016)
    We study the gains from increased wage flexibility using a small open economy model with staggered price and wage setting. Two results stand out: (i) the effectiveness of labor cost reductions as a means to stimulate ...
  • Understanding the stakeholders’ intention to use economic decision-support tools: a cross-sectional study with the tobacco return on investment tool
    Cheung, Kei Long; Evers, Silvia M. A. A.; Hiligsmann, Mickaël; Vokó, Zoltán; Pokhrel, Subhash; Jones, Teresa; Muñoz, Celia; Wolfenstetter, Silke B.; Józwiak-Hagymásy, Judit; de Vries, Hein (Elsevier, 2016)
    Background. Despite an increased number of economic evaluations of tobacco control interventions, the uptake by stakeholders continues to be limited. Understanding the underlying mechanism in adopting such economic ...
  • Unemployment cycles
    Eeckhout, Jan; Lindenlaub, Ilse (American Economic Association, 2019)
    The labor market by itself can create cyclical outcomes, even in the absence of exogenous shocks. We propose a theory in which the search behavior of the employed has profound aggregate implications for the unemployed. ...
  • Unveiling pathways for the fissure among secessionists and unionists in Catalonia: identities, family language, and media influence
    Oller, Josep M.; Satorra, Albert; Tobeña, Adolf (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
    Catalonian secessionism acquired prominence from 2010 onwards. During the last decade secessionist parties won three regional elections and sustained Governments by tiny majorities at the Autonomous Parliament. Two illegal ...
  • The use of economic indicators from the Global Reporting Initiative by Spanish listed companies
    García, María José; Turró, Marta; Amat Salas, Oriol (OmniaScience, 2014)
    Purpose: Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in companies is widely accepted within today’s business community. However, the intangibility of this concept and the dispersion of related standards and regulations has created ...

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