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2017/12: Efficiency in the transformation of schooling into competences: A cross-country analysis using PIAAC data

Inés P. Murillo, José L. Raymond and Jorge Calero

2017/11: Finding common ground when experts disagree: Robust portfolio decision analysis

Erin Baker, Valentina Bosetti and Ahti Salo

2017/10: The elasticity of taxable income: A meta-regression analysis

Carina Neisser

2017/09: Distributive politics inside the city? The political economy of Spain’s plan E

Felipe Carozzi and Luca Repetto

2017/08: Small systems, big targets: power sector reforms and renewable energy development in small electricity systems

Rabindra Nepal, Lawrence Cram, Tooraj Jamasb and Anupama Sen

2017/07: The production function for housing: evidence from France

Pierre-Philippe Combes, Gilles Duranton and Laurent Gobillon

2017/06: Taxing high-income earners: tax avoidance and mobility

Alejandro Esteller, Amedeo Piolatto and Matthew Rablen

2017/05: Housing booms and busts and local fiscal policy

Albert Solé-Ollé and Elisabet Viladecans-Marsal

2017/04: Does electoral competition curb party favoritism?

Marta Curto‐Grau, Albert Solé‐Ollé and Pilar Sorribas‐Navarro

2017/03: Innovation persistence and employment dynamics

Stefano Bianchini and Gabriele Pellegrino

2017/02: Integration of DERs on power systems: challenges and opportunities

Tomás Gómez San Román

2017/01: Can urban renewal policies reverse neighborhood ethnic dynamics?

Nicolas González Pampillón, Jordi Jofre-Monseny and Elisabet Viladecans-Marsal

2016/30: Wind, storage, interconnection and the cost of electricity

Valeria Di Cosmo and Laura Malaguzzi Valeri

2016/29: Mafia, elections and violence against politicians

Gianmarco Daniele and Gemma Dipoppa

2016/28: Innovation strategies of energy firms

Maria Costa-Campi, Néstor Duch-Brown and Jose Garcia-Quevedo

2016/27: Gender, competition and performance:Evidence from real tournaments

Peter Backus, Maria Cubel, Matej Guid, Santiago Sánchez-Pagés and Enrique Lopez Manas

2016/26: Cities drifting apart: Heterogeneous outcomes of decentralizing public education

Zelda Brutti

2016/25: The evolution of educational inequalities in Spain: dynamic evidence from repeated cross-sections

Álvaro Choi, María Gil, Mauro Mediavilla and Javier Valbuena

2016/24: Banking the unbanked: Evidence from the Spanish Banking Expansion Plan

Pere Arqué-castells and Elisabet Viladecans-Marsal

2016/23: Co2 content of electricity losses

Daniel Daví-Arderius, María Eugenia Sanin Vázquez and Elisa Trujillo-Baute

2016/22: Spatial interaction in local expenditures among italian municipalities: evidence from italy 2001-2011

Massimiliano Ferraresi, Giuseppe Migali, Francesca Nordi and Leonzio Rizzo

2016/21: Switch towards tax centralization in Italy: A wake up for the local political budget cycle

Massimiliano Ferraresi, Umberto Galmarini, Leonzio Rizzo and Alberto Zanardi

2016/20: Fuel Poverty: Evidence from housing perspective

Paloma Taltavull de La Paz, Francisco Juárez and Paloma Monllor

2016/19: Analysing the impact of renewable energy regulation on retail electricity prices

Pablo del Rio, Pere Mir-Artigues and Elisa Trujillo-Baute

2016/18: Leisure and education: insights from a time-use analysis

Jorge Calero and Marcos Fernández-Gutiérrez

2016/17: Modelling adult skills in OECD countries

Jorge Calero and Rosario Ivano Scandurra

2016/16: The effect of a specialized versus a general upper secondary school curriculum on students’ performance and inequality. A difference-in-differences cross country country comparison

Alfonso Leme and Josep-Oriol Escardibul

2016/15: Changes in fuel economy: An analysis of the Spanish car market

Anna Matas, Josep Raymond and Andrés Domínguez

2016/14: Next train to the polycentric city: The effect of railroads on subcenter formation

Miquel-Àngel Garcia-López, Camille Hemet and Elisabet Viladecans-Marsal

2016/13: What are the determinants of investment in environmental R&D?

Maria Costa-Campi, Jose Garcia-Quevedo and Ester Martínez-Ros

2016/12: Small shops for sale! The effects of big-box openings on grocery stores

Maria Sanchez-Vidal

2016/11: Local labor market effects of public employment

Javier Vázquez-Grenno, Jordi Jofre-Monseny and José Silva

2016/10: Innovation strategies and firm growth

Stefano Bianchini, Federico Tamagni and Gabriele Pellegrino

2016/9: Labor markets, academic performance and the risk of school dropout: evidence for Spain

Juan Guio, Álvaro Choi and Josep-Oriol Escardibul

2016/8: Historical urban growth in Europe (1300–1800)

Rafael González-Val

2016/7: Double toil and trouble: grade retention and academic performance

Álvaro Choi, María Gil, Mauro Mediavilla and Javier Valbuena

2016/6: On the private and social desirability of mixed bundling in complementary markets with cost savings

Christine Halmenschlager and Andrea Mantovani

2016/5: Returns to ICT skills

Oliver Falck, Alexandra Heimisch-Röcker and Simon Wiederhold

2016/4: The economic impact of electricity losses

Maria Costa-Campi, Daniel Daví-Arderius and Elisa Trujillo-Baute

2016/3: Education, age and skills: an analysis using the PIAAC survey

Jorge Calero, Inés P. Murillo Huertas and Josep Raymond

2016/2: Analysing the potential economic value of energy storage

Lisa Flatley, Monica Giulietti, Luigi Grossi, Elisa Trujillo-Baute and Michael Waterson

2016/1: Law enforcement, municipal budgets and spillover effects: evidence from a quasi-experiment in Italy

Sergio Galletta

2015/42: Wage policies, employment, and redistributive efficiency

Erwin Ooghe

2015/41: Exposing politicians’ ties to criminal organizations: the effects of local government dissolutions on electoral outcomes in southern Italian municipalities

Gianmarco Daniele and Benny Geys

2015/40: Does educational management model matter? New evidence for Spain by a quasiexperimental approach

María-Jesús Mancebón, Domingo Ximénez-de-Embún, Mauro Mediavilla and Jose Gomez-Sancho

2015/39: ‘Hold that ghost’: using notches to identify manipulation of population-based grants

Dirk Foremny, Jordi Jofre-Monseny and Albert Solé-Ollé

2015/38: Regional unemployment, marriage, and divorce

Rafael González-Val and Miriam Marcén

2015/37: Strike one to educate one hundred: organized crime, political selection and politicians’ ability

Gianmarco Daniele

2015/36: Is there real freedom of school choice? An analysis from Chile

Mauro Mediavilla and Adrián Zancajo

2015/35: The distribution of skills among the European adult population and unemployment: a comparative approach

Jorge Calero and Álvaro Choi