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2015/34: Divorce and the business cycle: a cross-country analysis

Rafael González-Val and Miriam Marcén

2015/33: Decentralisation and school autonomy impact on the quality of education: the case of two MENA countries

Josep-Oriol Escardibul and Nehal Helmy

2015/32: When one door closes: the impact of the hagwon curfew on the consumption of private tutoring in the Republic of Korea

Hoon Choi and Álvaro Choi

2015/31: Bypassing progressive taxation: fraud and base erosion in the Spanish income tax (1970-2001)

Sara Torregrosa-Hetland

2015/30: Express delivery to the suburbs. The effects of transportation in Europe’s heterogeneous cities

Miquel-Àngel Garcia-López, Ilias Pasidis and Elisabet Viladecans-Marsal

2015/29: An analysis of wage differentials between full-and part-time workers in Spain

Raul Ramos, Esteban Sanroma and Hipolito Simon

2015/28: Market structure, the functional form of demand and the sensitivity of the vertical reaction function

Agustin Redonda

2015/27: Capital taxation and imperfect competition: ACE vs. CBIT

Kurt Brekke, Armando Garcia Pires, Dirk Schindler and Guttorm Schjelderup

2015/26: Commodity taxation and regulatory competition

Simone Moriconi, Pierre Picard and Skerdilajda Zanaj

2015/25: Petty corruption and citizen feedback

Charles Angelucci and Antonio Russo

2015/24: A test of the ‘lose it or use it’ hypothesis in labour markets around the world

Karsten Albæk

2015/23: Vote buying or (political) business (cycles) as usual?

Toke Aidt, Zareh Asatryan, Lusine Badalyan and Friedrich Heinemann

2015/22: Determinants of doctorate holders’ job satisfaction. An analysis by employment sector and type of satisfaction in Spain

Josep-Oriol Escardibul and Sergio Afcha

2015/21: Fiscal equalization under political pressures

Alejandro Esteller-Moré, Umberto Galmarini and Leonzio Rizzo

2015/20: How does transportation shape Intrametropolitan growth? An answer from the regional express rail

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

2015/19: Big plant closures and agglomeration economies

Jordi Jofre-Monseny, Maria Sánchez-Vidal and Elisabet Viladecans-Marsal

2015/18: Are energy market integrations a green light for FDI?

Maria Costa-Campi, Jordi Paniagua and Elisa Trujillo-Baute

2015/17: Impacts of intermittent renewable generation on electricity system costs

Joan Batalla-Bejerano and Elisa Trujillo-Baute

2015/16: Unexpected consequences of liberalisation: metering, losses, load profiles and cost settlement in Spain’s electricity system

Joan Batalla-Bejerano, Maria Costa-Campi and Elisa Trujillo-Baute

2015/15: Measuring the negative externalities of a private leisure activity: hooligans and pickpockets around the stadium

Daniel Montolio and Simón Planells-Struse

2015/14: How inventor royalty shares affect patenting and income in Portugal and Spain

Pere Arqué-Castells, Rui M Cartaxo, Jose Garcia-Quevedo and Manuel Godinho

2015/13: Tax administration and tax systems

Joel Slemrod

2015/12: Strategic investment in merchant transmission: the impact of capacity utilization rules

Federico Boffa, Viswanath Pingali and Francesca Sala

2015/11: Online booking and information: competition and welfare consequences of review aggregators

Amedeo Piolatto

2015/10: How time shapes crime: the temporal impacts of football matches on crime

Daniel Montolio and Simón Planells-Struse

2015/9: Does tax enforcement counteract the negative effects of terrorism? A case study of the Basque Country

Luca Salvadori

2015/7: Empirical evidence on tax cooperation between sub-central administrations

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

2015/6: The use (and misuse) of Pisa in guiding policy reform: the case of Spain

Álvaro Choi and John Jerrim

2015/5: An axiomatization of difference-form contest success functions

Maria Cubel and Santiago Sánchez-Pagés

2015/4: Diversity and employment prospects: neighbors matter!

Camille Hemet

2015/3: Barriers to innovation: can firm age help lower them?

Gabriele Pellegrino

2015/2: Optimality and distortionary lobbying: regulating tobacco consumption

Luca Colombo and Umberto Galmarini

2015/1: Overlapping political budget cycles in the legislative and the executive

Dirk Foremny, Ronny Freier, Marc-Daniel Moessinger and Mustafa Yeter

2014/36: Hedonic quality, social norms, and environmental campaigns

Andrea Mantovani, Ornella Tarola and Cecilia Vergari

2014/35: Two-sample two-stage least squares (TSTSLS) estimates of earnings mobility: how consistent are they?

John Jerrim, Álvaro Choi and Rosa Simancas Rodríguez

2014/34: Costs of power supply flexibility: the indirect impact of a Spanish policy change

Ronald Huisman and Elisa Trujillo-Baute

2014/33: Is income redistribution a form of insurance, a public good or both?

Peter Backus and Alejandro Esteller-Moré

2014/32: Public-private sector wage differentials by type of contract: evidence from Spain

Raul Ramos, Esteban Sanroma and Hipolito Simon

2014/31: The diffusion of patented oil and gas technology with environmental uses: a forward patent citation analysis

Maria Costa-Campi and Nestor Duch-Brown

2014/30: The stabilizing effect of hydro reservoir levels on intraday power prices under wind forecast errors

Mehtap Kilic and Elisa Trujillo-Baute

2014/29: Retail price effects of feed-in tariff regulation

Maria Costa-Campi and Elisa Trujillo-Baute

2014/28: Do personality traits affect productivity? Evidence from the LAB

Maria Cubel, Ana Nuevo-Chiquero, Santiago Sánchez-Pagés and Marian Vidal-Fernandez

2014/27: Political corruption and voter turnout: mobilization or disaffection?

Elena Costas-Pérez

2014/26: Does corruption erode trust in government? Evidence from a recent surge of local scandals in Spain

Albert Solé-Ollé and Pilar Sorribas-Navarro

2014/25: The effect of decentralization on educational outcomes: real autonomy matters!

Paula Salinas

2014/24: Household electricity demand in Spanish regions. Public policy implications

Desiderio Romero-Jordán, Pablo del Río and Cristina Peñasco

2014/23: Combining tariffs, investment subsidies and soft loans in a renewable electricity deployment policy

Pere Mir-Artigues and Pablo del Río

2014/22: The impact of R&D subsidies on R&D employment composition

Sergio Afcha and Jose Garcia-Quevedo

2014/21: Electricity futures prices: time varying sensitivity to fundamentals

Stein-Erik Fleten, Ronald Huisman, Mehtap Kilic, Enrico Pennings and Sjur Westgaard

2014/20: The causal factors of international inequality in co2 emissions per capita: a regression-based inequality decomposition analysis

Juan Duro, Jordi Teixido and Emilio Padilla Rosa