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2020/08: 'Information doesn't want to be free': informational shocks with anonymous online platforms

Amedeo Piolatto

2020/07: What do divided cities have in common? An international comparison of income segregation

Paolo Veneri, Andre Comandon, Miquel-Àngel Garcia-López and Michiel N. Daams

2020/06: Modeling the U.S. firearms market: the effects of civilian stocks, crime, legislation, and armed conflict

Topher McDougal, Daniel Montolio and Jurgen Brauer

2020/05: Does media coverage affect governments’preparation for natural disasters?

Pierre Magontier

2020/04: Does the internet change attitudes towards immigrants? Evidence from Spain

Alessio Romarri

2020/03: Commuting time and the gender gap in labor market participation

Lidia Farre, Jordi Jofre-Monseny and Juan Torrecillas

2020/02: Betrayed by the elites: how corruption amplifies the political effects of recessions

Carlos Sanz, Albert Solé-Ollé and Pilar Sorribas-Navarro

2020/01: Does the winner take it all? Redistributive policies and political extremism

Gianmarco Daniele, Amedeo Piolatto and Willem Sas

2019/11: Stop invasion! The electoral tipping point in anti-immigrant voting

Massimo Bordignon, Matteo Gamalerio, Edoardo Slerca and Gilberto Turati

2019/10: Building(s and) cities: delineating urban areas with a machine learning algorithm

Daniel Arribas-Bel, Miquel-Àngel Garcia-López and Elisabet Viladecans-Marsal

2019/09: The long-run redistributive power of the net wealth tax

Jose M. Duran-Cabre and Alejandro Esteller-Moré

2019/08: What are the factors that influence the use of ICT in the classroom by teachers? Evidence from a census survey in Madrid

Nerea Gómez-Fernández and Mauro Mediavilla

2019/07: Why firms invest (or not) in energy efficiency? A review of the econometric evidence

Jose Garcia-Quevedo and Xavier Massa-Camps

2019/06: Bolstering community ties as a means of reducing crime

Magdalena Dominguez and Daniel Montolio

2019/05: Do short-term rental platforms affect housing markets? Evidence from Airbnb in Barcelona

Miquel-Àngel Garcia-López, Jordi Jofre-Monseny, Rodrigo Martínez Mazza and Mariona Segú

2019/04: Behavioural responses to the (re)introduction of wealth taxes. Evidence from Spain

Jose M. Duran-Cabre, Alejandro Esteller-Moré and Mariona Mas-Montserrat

2019/03: Transaction-tax evasion in the housing market

José G. Montalvo, Amedeo Piolatto and Josep Raya

2019/02: Preventing criminal minds: early education access and adult offending behavior

Zelda Brutti and Daniel Montolio

2019/01: Bilingual education and school choice: a case study of public secondary schools in the Spanish region of Madrid

Mauro Mediavilla, María-Jesús Mancebón, José-María Gómez-Sancho and Luis Pires Jiménez

2018/23: Wage differentials by bargaining regime in Spain (2002-2014). An analysis using matched employer-employee data

Raul Ramos, Esteban Sanroma and Hipólito Simón

2018/22: Hit where it hurts – healthcare access and intimate partner violence

Caoimhe Rice and Judit Vall Castello

2018/21: Gender differences under test pressure and their impact on academic performance: a quasi-experimental design

Daniel Montolio and Pere Taberner

2018/20: Do information and communication technologies (ICT) improve educational outcomes? Evidence for Spain in PISA 2015

Nerea Gómez-Fernández and Mauro Mediavilla

2018/19: Is changing the minimum legal drinking age an effective policy tool?

Nicolai Brachowicz Quintanilla and Judit Vall Castello

2018/18: From forward to spot prices: producers, retailers and loss averse consumers in electricity markets

Valeria Di Cosmo and Elisa Trujillo-Baute

2018/17: Income segregation in monocentric and polycentric cities: does urban form really matter?

Miquel-Àngel Garcia-López and Ana Moreno-Monroy

2018/16: Long-lasting social capital and its impact on economic development: the legacy of the commons

Daniel Montolio and Ana Tur-Prats

2018/15: La brecha fiscal: estudio y aplicación a los impuestos sobre la riqueza

Jose M. Duran-Cabre, Alejandro Esteller-Moré, Mariona Mas-Montserrat and Luca Salvadori

2018/14: Class composition effects and school welfare: evidence from Portugal using panel data

João Firmino

2018/13: The unequal opportunity for skills acquisition during the Great Recession in Europe

Sara Ayllón and Natalia Nollenberger

2018/12: Parallel tracks towards a global treaty on carbon pricing

Jeroen van den Bergh, Arild Angelsen, Andrea Baranzini, Wouter Botzen, Stefano Carattini, Stefan Drews, Tessa Dunlop, Eric Galbraith, Elisabeth Gsottbauer, Richard B. Howarth, Emilio Padilla Rosa, Jordi Roca and Robert Schmidt

2018/11: Energy performance certificates and investments in building energy efficiency: a theoretical analysis

Pierre Fleckinger, Matthieu Glachant and Paul-Hervé Tamokoué Kamga

2018/10: The influence of renewables on electricity price forecasting: a robust approach

Luigi Grossi and Fany Nan

2018/09: Flight from urban blight: lead poisoning, crime and suburbanization

Federico Curci and Federico Masera

2018/08: Asymmetric effects of monetary policy in regional housing markets

Knut Are Aastveit and Andre Anundsen

2018/06: Relocation of the rich: migration in response to top tax rate changes from Spanish reforms

David Agrawal and Dirk Foremny

2018/05: Employment effects of on-the-job human capital acquisition

Joaquín Naval Navarro, José Silva and Javier Vázquez-Grenno

2018/04: Popularity shocks and political selection

Gianmarco Daniele, Francisco Cavalcanti and Sergio Galletta

2018/03: Abandon ship? Party brands and politicians’responses to a political scandal

Gianmarco Daniele, Benny Geys and Sergio Galletta

2018/02: All roads lead to Rome... and to sprawl? Evidence from European cities

Miquel-Àngel Garcia-López

2018/01: The tenuous case for an annual wealth tax

Robin Boadway and Pierre Pestieau

2017/21: Electricity regulation and economic growth

Maria Costa-Campi, Jose Garcia-Quevedo and Elisa Trujillo-Baute

2017/20: Why do manufacturing industries invest in energy R&D?

Maria Costa-Campi and Jose Garcia-Quevedo

2017/19: What firms don’t know can hurt them: Overcoming a lack of information on technology

Jose Garcia-Quevedo, Francisco Mas-Verdú and Gabriele Pellegrino

2017/18: City size distribution and space

Rafael González-Val

2017/17: Globalization and political structure

Gino Gancia, Giacomo Ponzetto and Jaume Ventura

2017/16: The institutional determinants of Southern secession

Mario Chacón and Jeffrey Jensen

2017/15: Spillover from the haven: Cross-border externalities of patent box regimes within multinational firms

Thomas Schwab and Maximilian Todtenhaupt

2017/14: Decomposing the impact of immigration on house prices

Rosa Sanchis-Guarner

2017/13: The more educated, the more engaged? An analysis of social capital and education

Gerard Ferrer-Esteban and Mauro Mediavilla