• 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 ...
• 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. ...
• Herramienta de retorno de la inversión en control del tabaquismo: ¿qué opinan aquellos que toman decisiones?

  Muñoz, Celia; Trapero-Bertran, Marta; Cheung, Kei Long; Evers, Silvia M. A. A.; Hiligsmann, Mickaël; de Vries, Hein; López-Nicolás, Ángel (Elsevier, 2016)

  Introducción El Proyecto Europeo EQUIPT pretende adaptar una herramienta de retorno de la inversión en tabaco para varios países, con el fin de proporcionar información sobre el retorno de invertir en estrategias y justificar ...
• Medida de la importancia de las dimensiones de la satisfacción en la provisión de servicios de salud

  Murillo, Carles; Saurina, Carme (2013)

  Objetivo. La necesidad de conocer la percepción de la calidad asistencial recibida por los ciudadanos es clave para abordar con éxito mejoras en la prestación de los servicios de salud. El principal objetivo de este trabajo ...
• Advertising bans

  Motta, Massimo (Springer, 2013)

  I show that an advertising ban is more likely to increase—rather than decrease—total consumption when advertising does not bring about a large expansion of market demand at given prices and when it increases product ...
• Las bases sociales y políticas de la abstención en las elecciones generales españolas: recursos individuales, movilización estratégica e instituciones electorales

  Riba i Romeva, Clara; Boix Serra, Carles (Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas, 2024)

  Este informe de investigación examina los factores sociales y políticos que han determinado el nivel y variabilidad de la abstención electoral en las elecciones generales españolas. Extendiendo los modelos de carácter ...
• Mothers' school starting age and infant health

  Borra, Cristina; González, Libertad; Patiño, David (Wiley, 2024)

  We study the effects of women's school starting age on the infant health of their offspring. In Spain, children born in December start school a year earlier than those born the following January, despite being essentially ...
• Immigration and spatial equilibrium: the role of expenditures in the country of origin

  Albert, Christoph; Monràs, Joan (American Economic Association, 2022)

  We document that international migrants concentrate more in expensive cities—the more so, the lower the prices in their origin countries are—and consume less locally than comparable natives. We rationalize this empirical ...
• The organic model and ethical banking: the importance of identity

  Balagué Gómez, Lluís; Arimany Serrat, Núria; Amat Salas, Oriol (OmniaScience, 2024)

  Purpose: The aim of this work is to highlight the advantages of applying the Organic Model to organizations. It considers the example of European Ethical Banking, which came about as the result of the impetus of this model. ...
• The good, the bad, and the complex: product design with imperfect information

  Asriyan, Vladimir; Foarta, Dana; Vanasco, Victoria (American Economic Association, 2023)

  We study the joint determination of product quality and complexity. In our model complexity affects how difficult it is for an agent to acquire information about product quality. An agent can accept or reject a product ...
• Pareto-improving optimal capital and labor taxes

  Greulich, Katharina; Laczó, Sarolta; Marcet, Albert (University of Chicago Press, 2023)

  We study optimal Pareto-improving factor taxation when agents are heterogeneous in their labor productivity and wealth and markets are complete. Pareto-improving policies require a gradual reform: labor taxes should be ...
• On the curvature of the smile in stochastic volatility models

  Alòs, Elisa; León, Jorge A. (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 2017)

  In this paper we compute analytically the at-the-money second derivative of the implied volatility curve as a function of the strike price, for correlated stochastic volatility models. We also obtain an expression for ...
• Ecosystem service arguments enhance public support for environmental protection - But beware of the numbers

  Rode, Julian; Le Menestrel, Marc; Cornelissen, Gert (Elsevier, 2017)

  The trend in the discourse around environmental protection towards arguments based on ecosystem services and monetary valuation has prompted considerable controversy among academics and practitioners concerned with ...
• Decision theory for the variance ratio in one-way ANOVA with random effects

  Longford, Nicholas T.; Andrade, Mercedes (Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Departamento de Estadística, 2015)

  Estimating a variance component in the model of analysis of variance with random effects and testing the hypothesis that the variance vanishes are important issues in many applications. Such inferences are beyond the ...
• International capital flows and credit market imperfections: a tale of two frictions

  Martin, Alberto; Taddei, Filippo (Elsevier, 2013)

  The financial crisis of 2007–08 has underscored the importance of adverse selection in financial markets. This friction has been mostly neglected by macroeconomic models of financial imperfections, which have focused almost ...
• Monotone contracts

  Bird, Daniel; Frug, Alexander (Wiley, 2022)

  We develop a framework for deriving dynamic monotonicity results in long-term stochastic contracting problems with symmetric information. Specifically, we construct a notion of concave separable activity that encompasses ...
• Corporate social responsibility as a signaling technology

  Epure, Mircea (Springer, 2022)

  This study proposes a production framework in which capital, labor, and corporate social responsibility (CSR) generate sales. Estimating a stochastic frontier on an international sample of large manufacturing firms reveals ...
• Optimal monetary policy with r*<0

  Billi, Roberto; Galí, Jordi, 1961-; Nakov, Anton (Elsevier, 2024)

  We study the optimal monetary policy problem in a New Keynesian economy with a zero lower bound (ZLB) on the nominal interest rate, when the steady state natural rate (r*) becomes permanently negative. We show that the ...
• Long-term unemployment subsidies and middle-aged disadvantaged workers' health

  Garcia-Pérez, José Ignacio; Serrano-Alarcón, Manuel; Vall-Castelló, Judit (Springer, 2024)

  This paper examines the labour market and health effects of a non-contributory long-term unemployment (LTU) benefit targeted at middle-aged disadvantaged workers. To do so, we exploit a Spanish reform introduced in July ...
• Impact of socioeconomic environment on home social care service demand and dependent users

  Badell, Daniel; De Armas, Jésica; Julià, Albert (MDPI, 2022)

  An aging population and rising life expectancy lead to an increased demand for social services to care for dependent users, among other factors. In Barcelona, home social care (HSC) services are a key agent in meeting this ...

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