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- 2016/339: Are All Booms and Busts Created Equal? A New Methodology for Understanding Bull and Bear Stock Markets

- German Forero-Laverde
- 2016/338: Gender differences and stereotypes in strategic thinking

- Maria Cubel and Santiago Sánchez-Pagés
- 2016/337: When is an oligarchy formed? The origins and evolution of an elite. Barcelona 1850-1920

- Jose Miguel Sanjuan Marroquin
- 2016/336: Entrepreneurial skills and wage employment

- Aleksander Kucel and Montserrat Vilalta-Bufi
- 2016/335: On the Industry Specificity of Human Capital and Business Cycles

- Vahagn Jerbashian, Sergey Slobodyan and Evangelia Vourvachaki
- 2015/334: Height and Industrialisation in a City in Catalonia during the Nineteenth Century

- Ramon Ramon-Muñoz and Josep-Maria Ramon-Muñoz
- 2015/333: Insights into the nucleolus of the assignment game

- Javier Martínez-de-Albéniz, Carles Rafels and Neus Ybern
- 2015/332: The Welfare State and the demographic dividend: A cross-country comparison

- Gemma Abio, Concepció Patxot, Miguel Sánchez-Romero and Guadalupe Souto Nieves
- 2015/331: European Energy Market Integration: Efficiency Improvements in Electricity Producing Firms

- Ferran Armada Ramírez
- 2015/330: The reform of the European Energy Tax Directive: does data disaggregation matter? The Italian case Abstract: In 2011, the European Commission (EC) proposed a new version of the Energy Taxation Directive (ETD), a tax affecting the price of energy products. The main aim was to increase the effectiveness of the instrument through stronger fiscal pressure and to coordinate the environmental taxation with the Emissions Trade System (ETS) introduced in 2005. However, in May 2012 the European Parliament did not approve the reform. Italy, already characterized by high energy taxation rates, has recently expressed a commitment to increase the use of environmental taxation by explicitly referring to the amendments proposed by the EC in 2011. This study analyzes the effect of the 2011 ETD reform on prices in Italy, if it were implemented. The main finding is that the new tax regime would have a low impact on prices. This result implies that the reform would not significantly orient consumption and production towards more environmentally-friendly patterns

- Paola Rocchi and Mònica Serrano
- 2015/329: Generalized rationing problems and solutions

- Pere Timoner Lledó and Josep Maria Izquierdo Aznar
- 2015/328: Power Indices and Minimal Winning Coalitions in Simple Games with Externalities Abstract: We propose a generalization of simple games to situations with coalitional externalities. The main novelty of our generalization is a monotonicity property that we define for games in partition function form. This property allows us to properly speak about minimal winning embedded coalitions. We propose and characterize two power indices based on these kind of coalitions. We provide methods based on the multilinear extension of the game to compute the indices. Finally, the new indices are used to study the distribution of power in the current Parliament of Andalusia

- José María Alonso-Meijide, Mikel Álvarez-Mozos and María Gloria Fiestras-Janeiro
- 2015/327: Carbon-motivated border tax adjustment: a proposal for the EU

- Paola Rocchi, Iñaki Arto, Jordi Roca and Mònica Serrano
- 2015/326: Intrinsically Motivated Agents in Teams

- Ester Manna
- 2015/325: Labor mobility, structural change and economic growth

- Jaime Alonso-Carrera and Xavier Raurich
- 2015/324: Structural Change and Non-Constant Biased Technical Change

- Edgar Cruz
- 2015/323: Regional income distribution in Mexico: new long-term evidence, 1895-2010

- José Aguilar-Retureta
- 2015/322: A revision of the revaluation index of Spanish pensions

- Oriol Roch, Manuela Bosch- Príncep, Isabel Morillo and Daniel Vilalta
- 2015/321: Efficient multilateralism or bilateralism? The TTIP from an EU Trade Policy perspective

- Patricia Garcia-Duran and Montserrat Millet
- 2015/320: Combine to compete: improving fiscal forecast accuracy over time

- Laura Carabotta and Peter Claeys
- 2014/319: Sticky income inequality in the Spanish transition (1973-1990)

- Sara Torregrosa-Hetland
- 2014/317: Emergence and development of a financial cluster: the evolution of Andorra’s banking deposits in the long-term, 1931-2007

- Marc Galabert Macià
- 2014/316: One-seller assignment markets with multiunit demands

- Francisco Robles and Marina Núñez
- 2014/315: The determinants of CAP reform: learning from the European financial crisis and CAP 2013

- Patricia Garcia-Duran and Montserrat Millet
- 2014/314: Incumbency (dis)advantage when citizens can propose Abstract:This paper analyses the problem that an incumbent faces during the legislature when deciding how to react to citizen proposals such as the outcome of referenda or popular initiatives. We argue that these proposals constitute a potential source of electoral disadvantage when citizens factor in their evaluation of the incumbent his reaction to these proposals. This is because an incumbent politician may jeopardize his re-election by implementing policies close to his preferred ones but unpopular among the electorate. We characterize conditions under which this potential disadvantage becomes in fact an electoral advantage for the incumbent. We fi nd that the choices of the incumbent during the legislature will be closest to citizens policy proposals when the intensity of electoral competition is neither too soft nor too tough. Finally, we use our results to discuss some implications of the use of mechanisms such as referenda and popular assemblies on electoral competition and on the incumbency advantage phenomenon

- Enriqueta Aragones and Santiago Sánchez-Pagés
- 2014/313: The Impact of Doing Business Regulations on Investments in ICT

- Vahagn Jerbashian and Anna Kochanova
- 2014/312: Economics breeds culture

- Patricio Garcia-Minguez and Ausias Ribo Argemi
- 2014/311: Rationing problems with payoff thresholds

- Pere Timoner and Josep Maria Izquierdo
- 2014/310: Some optimization and decision problems in proportional reinsurance

- Anna Castañer, M.Mercè Claramunt and Maite Mármol
- 2014/309: Growth, unemployment and wage inertia

- Xavier Raurich and Valeri Sorolla
- 2014/308: Aggregate Costs of Gender Gaps in the Labor Market: A Quantitative Estimate

- Marc Teignier and David Cuberes
- 2014/307: R&D poverty traps

- Abián García-Rodríguez and Fernando Sánchez-Losada
- 2014/306: Endogenous growth with capital in R&D production functions

- Fernando Sánchez-Losada
- 2014/305: Wages and prices in early Catalan industrialisation

- Julio Martinez-Galarraga and Marc Prat
- 2014/304: Knowledge Licensing in a Model of R&D-driven Endogenous Growth

- Vahagn Jerbashian
- 2014/303: Demand-based structural change and balanced economic growth

- Jaime Alonso-Carrera and Xavier Raurich
- 2014/302: The Banzhaf Value in the Presence of Externalities

- Mikel Álvarez-Mozos and Oriol Tejada Pinyol
- 2013/301: Cooperative games with size-truncated

- Javier Martínez-de-Albéniz