• Sustainability as a resilience factor in the agri-food supply chain

  Arimany Serrat, Núria; Montanyà, Oriol; Amat Salas, Oriol (MDPI, 2024)

  What factors have a positive impact on the resilience of supply chains? This question has been raised in several academic research papers, particularly in recent years, coinciding with a series of disruptions (healthcare, ...
• Health care needs and services for elder and disabled population: findings from a Barcelona study

  Rodríguez-Pereira, Jessica; De Armas, Jésica; Garbujo, Lorenzo; Ramalhinho-Lourenço, Helena (MDPI, 2020)

  Health care is a pillar of modern society. This study focuses on the use of descriptive analytics to provide demographic and territorial insights that will be of strategic importance in planning subsequent projects meant ...
• Assessing the distribution of elderly requiring care: a case study on the residents in Barcelona and the impact of COVID-19

  Arvelo, Enrique; De Armas, Jésica; Guillen, Monserrat (MDPI, 2020)

  In this work, we establish a methodological framework to analyze the care demand for elderly citizens in any area with a large proportion of elderly population, and to find connections to the cumulative incidence of COVID-19. ...
• Door-to-door transportation services for reduced mobility population: a descriptive analytics of the city of Barcelona

  Portell, Laura; Morera, Sergi; Ramalhinho-Lourenço, Helena (MDPI, 2022)

  A central issue in modern cities is providing inclusive transportation services for people with reduced mobility. In particular, Barcelona is offering a public door-to-door pickup transportation service complementary to ...
• Cost-effectiveness of active tuberculosis screening among high-risk populations in low tuberculosis incidence countries: a systematic review, 2008 to 2023

  Gogichadze, Nino; Sagrera, Arnau; Vicente, José Ángel; Millet, Joan-Pau; López Seguí, Francesc, 1991-; Vilaplana Prieto, Cristina (European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, 2024)

  Background: In countries with a low TB incidence (≤ 10 cases/100,000 population), active pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) mostly affects vulnerable populations with limited access to healthcare. Thus, passive case-finding ...
• Assessing the impact of haemodynamic monitoring with CardioMEMS on heart failure patients: a cost–benefit analysis

  Codina, Pau; Vicente Gómez, José Ángel; Hernández Guillamet, Guillem; Ricou Ríos, Laura; Carrete, Andrea; Vilalta, Victoria; Estrada Cuxart, Oriol; Ara del Rey, Jordi; Lupón, Josep; Bayés-Genís, Antoni; López Seguí, Francesc, 1991- (Wiley, 2024)

  Aims: The objective of this study was to perform a cost–benefit analysis of the CardioMEMS HF System (Abbott Laboratories, Abbott Park, IL, USA) in a heart failure (HF) clinic in Spain by evaluating the real-time remote ...
• Efficiency and productivity gains of robotic surgery: the case of the English National Health Service

  Maynou Pujolràs, Laia; McGuire, Alistair; Serra-Sastre, Victoria (Wiley, 2024)

  This paper examines the effect of new medical technology (robotic surgery) on efficiency gains and productivity changes for surgical treatment in patients with prostate cancer from the perspective of a public health sector ...
• Measuring population health using health expectancy estimates from morbidity and mortality databases

  Carreras, Marc; Ibern Regàs, Pere; Inoriza, José María (Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2024)

  The progressive incorporation of quality of life indicators in health planning meets a critical need: The evaluation of the performance of health services, which are under stress by multiple causes, but in particular by ...
• Idiosyncratic income risk and aggregate fluctuations

  Debortoli, Davide; Galí, Jordi, 1961- (American Economic Association, 2024)

  We study how the presence of idiosyncratic income risk affects aggregate fluctuations in the absence of binding borrowing constraints and/or cyclical income risk. Its impact is shown to be captured by the response of a ...
• The virtuous cycle of property

  Fabbri, Marco; Dari-Mattiacci, Giuseppe (MIT Press, 2021)

  This paper shows that formalizing private property rights has a positive effect on the propensity to respect the property of others. We study a recent large-scale land tenure reform in West Africa that was the first of its ...
• Making the most of expert knowledge to analyse archaeological data: a case study on Parthian and Sasanian glazed pottery

  Wood, Jonathan R.; Greenacre, Michael (Springer Nature, 2021)

  Chemical compositional data sets of archaeological artefacts are often analysed using standard statistical procedures. Adopting a different approach, we examine the major element oxides found in Parthian and Sasanian glazed ...
• Privileged rebels: a longitudinal analysis of distinctive economic traits of Catalonian secessionism

  Oller, Josep M.; Satorra, Albert; Tobeña, Adolf (MDPI, 2020)

  During the last decade, the Catalonian secessionist challenge induced a chronic crisis within Spain's politics that does not offer hints of a viable arrangement. The rapidly escalating demands for secession ran almost in ...
• Myopia drives reckless behavior in response to over-taxation

  Spektor, Mikhail; Wulff, Dirk U. (Cambridge University Press, 2021)

  Governments use taxes to discourage undesired behaviors and encourage desired ones. One target of such interventions is reckless behavior, such as texting while driving, which in most cases is harmless but sometimes leads ...
• Spending response to cash transfers to shield households from inflation: evidence from bank accounts

  Aspachs, Oriol; Graziano, Alberto; Mestres, Josep Maria, 1959-; 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 ...
• Cuestiones controvertidas en evaluación económica (I): perspectiva y costes de intervenciones sanitarias

  Oliva Moreno, Juan; Brosa Riestra, Max; Espín Balbino, Jaime; Trapero-Bertran, Marta; Key4Value-Grupo I (Ministerio de Sanidad y Consumo, 2015)

  La evaluación económica de intervenciones sanitarias ha experimentado un fuerte desarrollo en la última década y cada vez está más presente como herramienta de apoyo en la toma decisiones sobre financiación pública de ...
• Revenue drift, incentives, and effort allocation in social enterprises

  Vladasel, Theodor; Parker, Simon C.; Sloof, Randolph; van Praag, Mirjam (Wiley, 2024)

  Revenue drift, whereby insufficient attention is given to economic, relative to social, goals, threatens social enterprise performance and survival. We argue that financial incentives can address this problem by redirecting ...
• Instantaneous everywhere-blowup of parabolic SPDEs

  Foondun, Mohammud; Khoshnevisan, Davar; Nualart, Eulàlia (Springer, 2024)
• A comment on: “Presidential Address: Demand-Side Constraints in Development: The Role of Market Size,Trade, and (In)Equality” by Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg and Tristan Reed

  Bustos, Paula (Wiley, 2023)
• Capital accumulation and structural transformation

  Bustos, Paula; Garber, Gabriel; Ponticelli, Jacopo (Oxford University Press, 2020)

  Several scholars argue that high agricultural productivity can retard industrial development because it draws resources toward the comparative advantage sector, agriculture. However, agricultural productivity growth can ...
• Agricultural productivity and atructural transformation: evidence from Brazil

  Bustos, Paula; Caprettini, Bruno; Ponticelli, Jacopo (American Economic Association, 2016)

  We study the effects of the adoption of new agricultural technologies on structural transformation. To guide empirical work, we present a simple model where the effect of agricultural productivity on industrial development ...

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