Documents de recerca, en accés obert, com ara working papers, informes de recerca, memòries tècniques, etc., del Departament d'Economia i Empresa de la UPF.
Do financial crises radicalize voters? We study Germany’s banking crisis of 1931, when two major banks collapsed and voting for radical parties soared. We collect new data on bank branches and firm-bank connections of over ...
Are country borders still an impediment to trade flows within Europe? Using a microlevel survey with 3 million annual shipments of goods, we construct a matrix of bilateral trade for 269 European regions. Take two similar ...
Andrade, Philippe; Galí, Jordi, 1961-; Le Bihan, Hervé; Matheron, Julien(2019-10-07)
We study how changes in the steady-state real interest rate (henceforth, r*) affect the optimal inflation target in a New Keynesian DSGE model with trend inflation and a lower bound on the nominal interest rate. In this ...
Since the creation of the euro, capital flows among member countries have been large and volatile. Motivated by this fact, I provide a theory connecting the exchange rate regime to financial integration. The key feature ...
We analyze the distributional effects of monetary policy on income, wealth and consumption. We use administrative household-level data covering the entire population in Denmark over the period 1987-2014 and exploit a ...
We show strong overall and heterogeneous economic incidence effects, as well as distortionary effects, of only shifting statutory incidence (i.e., the agent on which taxes are levied), without any tax rate change. For ...
We show that risk mitigating incentives dominate risk shifting incentives in fragile banks. Risk shifting could be particularly severe in banking since it is the most opaque industry and banks are one of the most leveraged ...
We study optimal policy when the planner has partial information in a general setup where observed signals are endogenous to policy. In this context, signal extraction and policy have to be determined jointly. We derive a ...
El tema aquí tractat és el del trànsit que va des de la desigualtat a la pèrdua de cohesió social, a través de la polarització d’una comunitat. La polarització és l’enemic de la cohesió. I la desigualtat, segons com ...
This paper identifies and quantifies –for the first time– the relative importance of borrower (credit demand) versus bank (supply) balance-sheet channels. We submit fictitious applications (varying households’ characteristics) ...
We show that bank shocks originating in the financial sector propagate upstream and downstream along the production network and triple the impact of direct bank shocks. Our identification relies on the universe of both ...
Macroprudential regulators worldwide have introduced regulations to limit household leverage in light of existing evidence which suggests that high leverage is associated with household distress during crisis. We analyse ...
Martín Vicente-Ruiz, Mercè; Bastida Vialcanet, Ramon; Piqué i Anguera, Ferran(2020-10)
Estudi sobre els efectes de l’ús del teletreball en la satisfacció i les condicions laborals.
La crisi de coronavirus s'ha convertit en un factor d'acceleració de canvis que, en alguns casos, ja s'estaven produint en les ...