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Can there be a market for cheap-talk information? An experimental investigation.
Cabrales, Antonio; Feri, Francesco; Gottardi, Piero; Meléndez-Jiménez, Miguel Ángel
(Elsevier, 2020-03-17)
This paper reports on experiments testing the viability of markets for cheap-talk information. We find that the level of trade in these markets is very small and eventually vanishes. Sellers provide low-quality information ... -
Conditioning competitive behaviour in experimental Bertrand markets through contextual frames
Jiménez-Jiménez, Francisca; Rodero-Cosano, Francisco Javier (Elsevier, 2023)
Explaining framing effects is one of the main challenges faced by decision theories. This research experimentally examines how different contextual frames influence competitive behaviour in a Bertrand duopoly game (repeatedly ... -
Condorcet consistent scoring rules and single-peakedness
Berga, Dolors; Correa-Lopera, Guadalupe; Moreno-Jiménez, Bernardo (Elsevier, 2024)
We study voting problems with an odd number of agents and single-peaked preferences. With only three alternatives, there are scoring rules that yield the Condorcet winner only for committees of three and five agents. With ... -
Constitutions, federalism, and national integration
Ansolabehere, Stephen; Puy-Segura, María Socorro (Elsevier, 2022-09)
This paper offers a model of endogenous constitutional design in a setting where culturally and economically distinct regions establish a national union and bargain over the form of the government. We examine two aspects: ... -
Constitutions, federalism, and national integration
Ansolabehere, Stephen; Puy-Segura, María Socorro (IOAP-MPDI, 2022-09)
This paper offers a model of endogenous constitutional design in a setting where culturally and economically distinct regions establish a national union and bargain over the form of the government. We examine two aspects: ... -
Consumption and production of cleaner energy by prosumers.
(Elsevier, 2023)As investments in small-scale energy generating systems, such as residential rooftop photovoltaics (PV), increase it is not clear how electricity generated from these systems affects energy consumption decisions such as ... -
Coordinated and uncoordinated punishment in a team investment game
Calabuig, Vicente; Jiménez‑Jiménez, Natalia; Olcina, Gonzalo; Rodríguez-Lara, Ismael (Springer Nature, 2024-02-24)
Coordinated punishment occurs when punishment requires a specific number of punishers to be effective, otherwise, no damage will be inflicted on the target. While societies often rely on this punishment device, its benefits ... -
Corruption, remittances, and public goods: a unified framework.
(Wiley, 2023)Remittances are an important source of income for the very countries afflicted by high levels of corruption. However, corruption undermines the development potential of remittances. With this in mind, we propose policy ... -
Cross-country Emission Tax Effect of Mergers.
(Sage, 2020)Recent studies show that mergers among polluting firms could affect the regulatory landscape of the industry and trigger a policy change. Using a two-country model, this study examines the effect o f a merger size, a s ... -
Dirty neighbors - Pollution in an interlinked world.
Meléndez-Jiménez, Miguel Ángel; Polanski, Arnold (Elsevier, 2020-01-07)
We apply a network approach to analyze individual and aggregate consumption that generates predominately local pollution (e.g., noise, water and air quality, waste disposal sites). This allows us to relate the individual ... -
Electric utility mergers in the presence of distributed renewable energy.
(Elsevier, 2021)Firm consolidation through mergers and acquisitions could be a strategic option for the electricity industry which has recently witnessed several transformations such as renewable integration and regulatory changes. This ... -
Emission Taxes and Product Differentiation in the Presence of Foreign Firms.
(Wiley, 2016-08-16)Industries characterized by differentiated products are important contributors of greenhouse gases and currently subject to market-based policies such as emission taxes. In the context of developing countries, fears about ... -
Empresarios vinícolas y estrategias empresariales ante la crisis de la vitivinicultura andaluza: Lacave & Compañía
(Universidad del País Vasco, 2022-02-01)Tradicionalmente, el negocio del vino ha sido una de las principales actividades económicas desarrolladas en la provincia de Cádiz, cobrando especial relevancia desde mediados del siglo XIX, época de crecimiento y prosperidad. ... -
Las empresas de gas en España y Portugal en la segunda mitad del siglo XIX: orígenes y consolidación.
Vázquez-Fariñas, María; Sampaio, Maria da Luz; Castro Valdivia, Mariano; Matés Barco, Juan Manuel (Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Facultad de Geografía e Historia, 2024-01-27)
El presente artículo ofrece un análisis comparativo de las empresas del gas existentes en la Península Ibérica a lo largo de la segunda mitad del siglo XIX. Para ello, se ha buscado información sobre esta materia en archivos, ... -
Endogenous Home Bias in Portfolio Diversification and Firms Entry.
Arespa-Castelló, Marta (John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2014-02-06)
The home bias in portfolios is considered a main puzzle in international macroeconomics. This paper pro- vides a new benchmark for its analysis in a tractable new open economy macroeconomic model, where the home-biased ... -
Energy mix, technological change, and the environment
Bongers-Chicano, Aneli María (Springer, 2021-09-04)
This paper studies the relationship between the energy mix and the environment using a theoretical framework in which two alternative energy sources are considered: fossil fuels (dirty energy) and renewable energy (clean ... -
Engaging academic staff in the quality assurance system in higher education: A field experiment
Meléndez-Jiménez, Miguel Ángel; Morales-Siles, Antonio José; Rodero-Cosano, Francisco Javier (Elsevier, 2022-10)
A randomised field experiment was conducted at the University of Malaga in 2017 to examine personalised norm-based messages’ effects on response rates to the annual faculty satisfaction survey. This research had a factorial ... -
Engaging academic staff in the quality assurance system in higher education: A field experiment
Meléndez-Jiménez, Miguel Ángel; Morales-Siles, Antonio José; Rodero-Cosano, Francisco Javier (Elsevier, 2022)
A randomised field experiment was conducted at the University of Malaga in 2017 to examine personalised norm-based messages’ effects on response rates to the annual faculty satisfaction survey. This research had a factorial ... -
Environmental efficiency, irreversibility and the shadow price of emissions
Silva, Elvira; Ferreira-de-Magalhaes, Rosinda Manuela (Elsevier, 2022-08-19)
Assessing the production of goods and services while minimizing the damage to the environment is a key component to advance sustainable development at national and global levels. The nonparametric estimation of lower and ... -
Environmental taxation and mergers in oligopoly markets with product differentiation.
(Springer, 2017)We analyze the effect of mergers on optimal environmental taxation in a Cournot oligopoly market with product differentiation. Our result indicates that the adjustment in emission tax crucially depends on the post-merger ...