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Nash implementation of supermajority rules
Amorós-González, Pablo
(Springer Nature, 2024-02-23)
A committee of n experts from a university department must choose whom to hire from a set of m candidates. Their honest judgments about the best candidate must be aggregated to determine the socially optimal candidates. ... -
On the control of competitive balance in the major European football leagues
Ávila-Cano, Antonio Jesús; Triguero-Ruiz, Francisco Andrés (Wiley, 2022-10-17)
Authorities in the economic field (European Commission and US Federal Trade Commission) focus on the level of market concentration and establish limits in order to promote competition. However, sports authorities do not ... -
Personal lies
Charness, Gary; Rodríguez-Lara, Ismael (Elsevier, 2023-12-24)
Using the mind game, we provide experimental evidence that people are more likely to lie when they disclose non-personal information (e.g., reporting a number they thought of) compared with personal information (e.g., ... -
Policy reform of emission taxes and environmental research and development incentives in an international Cournot model with product differentiation.
(Cambridge University Press, 2013)This paper studies multilateral and unilateral policy reforms of environmental R&D subsidies and emission taxes in a two-country Cournot model with oligopolistic interdependence. The analysis indicates, inter alia, that ... -
Pricing and Usage: An Empirical Analysis of Lines of Credit.
Durán-Muñoz, Miguel Ángel (Elsevier, 2017-09-06)
The hypothesis that committed revolving credit lines with fixed spreads can provide firms with interest rate insurance is a standard feature of models on these credit facilities’ interest rate structure. Nevertheless, this ... -
Product Quality and Price Dynamics over the Business Cycle.
Arespa-Castelló, Marta; Gruber, Diego (2021-06-16)
Two puzzling facts of international real business cycles are (1) weak or negative correlations between the terms of trade and output, and (2) a rise in relative consumption for countries where national goods become relatively ... -
Reputation and news suppression in the media industry
Andina-Díaz, Ascensión; García-Martínez, José A. (Elsevier, 2020-09-30)
This paper proposes a new argument to explain why media firms silence information and why this behavior may vary across firms and market structures. We build on the literature of career concerns and consider firms that ... -
Reputation and perverse transparency under two concerns.
Andina-Díaz, Ascensión; García-Martínez, José A. (Elsevier, 2023-07-25)
Quite often an expert takes position on an issue where certain actions can be perceived as biased. If the expert has an informational concern and she does not want the listener to perceive her as biased, she has an incentive ... -
Sankey diagrams for macroeconomics: A teaching complement bridging undergraduate and graduate Macro
Fernández-de-Córdoba-Martos, Gonzalo; Molinari, Benedetto (Wiley, 2022-09-09)
Background The diagnosis of allergic reactions to penicillins (AR-PEN) is very complex as there is a loss of sensitization over time, which leads to negative skin tests (STs) and specific IgE in serum, and even to tolerance ... -
Separatism and identity: a comparative analysis of the Basque and Catalan cases
Ansolabehere, Stephen; Puy-Segura, María Socorro (Cambridge, 2022-07-13)
This paper explores the potential of elections to change our emotions and modify the relevance that voters assign to self-interest and group-identity issues. We examine this question by analyzing the 1998–2016 period of ... -
Spatio-temporal clustering: Neighbourhoods based on median seasonal entropy.
Ruiz-Reina, Miguel Ángel (Spatial Statistics, 2021-08-24)
In this research, a new uncertainty clustering method has been developed and applied to the spatial time series with seasonality. The new unsupervised grouping method is based on Neighbourhoods and Median Seasonal Entropy. ... -
Tax autonomy mitigates soft budget constraint: evidence from Spanish Regions
Arespa-Castelló, Marta; González-Alegre, Juan (Cambridge, 2022-10-19)
Within the framework of the soft budget constraint problem, this article investigates the impact of a legislative reform that increased regional tax autonomy on the propensity of Spanish regional governments to incur a ... -
The bureaucracy trap
Andina-Díaz, Ascensión; Feri, Francesco; Meléndez-Jiménez, Miguel Ángel (Elsevier, 2023-07-30)
We study the incentives of political parties to institute reforms that improve bureaucratic quality and increase the ability of governments to implement policy change. We consider a context of dynamic elections where current ... -
The circular economy and the optimal recycling rate: a macroeconomic approach
Bongers-Chicano, Aneli María; Casas, Pablo (Elsevier, 2022-06-06)
This paper studies the economic implications of the circular economy and recycling activities from a macroeconomic perspective. The paper incorporates the circular economy into an otherwise standard neoclassical dynamic ... -
The Design of Emission Taxes in Markets with New Firm Acquisitions
(Springer, 2024-04-15)In the 1990s there was a great deal of interest in the study of the role of endogenous market structure under oligopoly in the characterization of emission taxes. This interest was instrumental in providing policy guidance ... -
The design of environmental policy for the olive oil sector in the presence of eco-friendly firms
(Elsevier, 2024)The olive oil sector in the European Union has recently exhibited an increase in the production of eco-friendly olive oil, which is consistent with the policy goals of increasing the production of eco-friendly products and ... -
The determinants of inflation volatility: a panel data analysis for US-product categories.
Arespa-Castelló, Marta; González-Alegre, Juan (Taylor & Francis Group, 2022-02-20)
Some macroeconomic dimensions like the economic business cycle, the exchange rate move- ments when the degree of country openness is significant, or the level of inflation are often considered to explain measured-inflation ... -
The effect of early automation on the wage distribution with endogenous occupational choices
Hidalgo-Pérez, Manuel A.; Molinari, Benedetto (Springer, 2022-06-23)
While the literature demonstrated that automation reduces employment in routine jobs (job polarization), its impact on wages is still unclear and the debate open. By applying Counterfactual Quantile Regressions to historical ... -
The impact of weather variation on energy consumption in residential houses.
(Elsevier, 2015)This paper studies the impact of weather variation on energy use by using 5-minutes interval weather–energy data obtained from two residential houses: house 1 is a conventional house with advanced efficiency features and ... -
The intensive and the extensive margins: not only an international issue.
Arespa-Castelló, Marta (Springer, 2013-03-27)
Empirical evidence shows that quantity (intensive margin) and variety availability (extensive margin) have effects of different magnitude on populations’ welfare. Indeed, the pattern of a market dynamics may cause changes ...