Working Papers

From Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB)
Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by ().

Access Statistics for this working paper series.
Is something missing from the series or not right? See the RePEc data check for the archive and series.

2012/12: Business taxation and economic performance in hierarchical government structures

Federico Revelli

2012/11: Urban spatial structure, suburbanization and transportation in Barcelona

Miquel-Àngel Garcia-López

2012/10: The strategic interplay between bundling and merging in complementary markets

Andrea Mantovani and Jan Vandekerckhove

2012/9: What underlies localization and urbanization economies? Evidence from the location of new firms

Jordi Jofre-Monseny, Raquel Marín-López and Elisabet Viladecans-Marsal

2012/8: Gibrat’s law and legacy for non-profit organisations: a non-parametric analysis

Peter G. Backus

2012/7: How does aid matter? The effect of financial aid on university enrolment decisions

Loris Vergolini and Nadir Zanini

2012/6: Ideology and the growth of US state government

Andrew Pickering and James Rockey

2012/5: Empirical evidence on horizontal competition in tax enforcement

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

2012/4: Student graduation: to what extent does university expenditure matter?

Javier García-Estévez and Néstor Duch-Brown

2012/3: Business taxes and the electoral cycle

Dirk Foremny and Nadine Riedel

2012/2: The size distribution across all “cities”: a unifying approach

Kristian Giesen and Jens Suedekum

2012/1: What drives investment in telecommunications? The role of regulation, firms’ internationalization and market knowledge

Daniel Montolio and Elisa Trujillo-Baute

2011/44: Fiscal decentralisation, private school funding, and students’ achievements. A tale from two roman catholic countries

Gilberto Turati, Daniel Montolio and Massimiliano Piacenza

2011/43: Decentralization of government and contracting with the private sector

Darwin Cortés

2011/42: Beaches, sunshine, and public-sector pay: theory and evidence on amenities and rent extraction by government workers

Jan Brueckner and David Neumark

2011/41: The effect of the l’Aquila earthquake on labour market outcomes

Giorgio Di Pietro and Toni Mora

2011/40: Voting under the threat of secession: accommodation vs. repression

Vincent Anesi and Philippe De Donder

2011/39: Growth in a cross-section of cities: location, increasing returns or random growth?

Rafael González-Val and Jose Olmo

2011/38: Bottleneck co-ownership as a regulatory alternative

Federico Boffa and John Panzar

2011/37: Does grade retention affect achievement? Some evidence from Pisa

J. Ignacio García-Pérez, Marisa Hidalgo-Hidalgo and J. Antonio Robles-Zurita

2011/36: Estimating the rivalness of state-level inward FDI

Marius Brülhart and Kurt Schmidheiny

2011/35: Tax competition among local governments: evidence from a property tax reform in Finland

Teemu Lyytikäinen

2011/34: Welfare spending and ethnic heterogeneity: evidence from a massive immigration wave

Jordi Jofre-Monseny, Pilar Sorribas-Navarro and Javier Vázquez-Grenno

2011/33: Analysis of alternative proposals to reform the Spanish intergovernmental transfer system for municipalities

Francisco Pedraja Chaparro and José Manuel Cordero Ferrera

2011/32: Corruption, accountability, and decentralization: theory and evidence from Mexico

Timothy Goodspeed

2011/31: The determinants of YICs’ R&D activity

Jose Garcia-Quevedo, Gabriele Pellegrino and Marco Vivarelli

2011/30: Financing public education when altruistic agents have retirement concerns

Daniel Montolio and Amedeo Piolatto

2011/29: Optimal tax enforcement under prospect theory

Amedeo Piolatto and Gwenola Trotin

2011/28: Occupational mobility of immigrants in a low skilled economy. The Spanish case

Hipolito Simon, Raul Ramos and Esteban Sanroma

2011/27: Local spending and the housing boom

Albert Solé-Ollé and Elisabet Viladecans-Marsal

2011/26: The probability of military rule in Africa, 1970-2007

Raul Caruso, Jacopo Costa and Roberto Ricciuti

2011/25: Tax competition with heterogeneous capital mobility

Steeve Mongrain and John D. Wilson

2011/24: In government we trust: the role of fiscal decentralization

Jenny Ligthart and Peter van Oudheusden

2011/23: Research output from university-industry collaborative projects

Albert Banal-Estañol, Ines Macho-Stadler and David Perez-Castrillo

2011/22: What type of innovative firms acquire knowledge intensive services and from which suppliers?

Jose Garcia-Quevedo, Francisco Mas-Verdú and Daniel Montolio

2011/21: Mechanisms of peer interactions between native and non-native students: rejection or integration?

Marco Tonello

2011/20: The impact of R&D on employment in Europe: a firm-level analysis

Francesco Bogliacino, Mariacristina Piva and Marco Vivarelli

2011/19: Family reunification or point-based immigration system? The case of the U.S. and Mexico

Joel López Real

2011/18: Green polities: urban environmental performance and government popularity

Laura Bianchini and Federico Revelli

2011/17: Give me your wired and your highly skilled: measuring the impact of immigration policy on employers and shareholders

Carl Lin

2011/16: Offshoring and company characteristics: some evidence from the analysis of Spanish firm data

Angels Pelegrín and Catalina Bolancé

2011/15: Regulatory federalism and industrial policy in broadband telecommunications

Daniel Montolio and Francesc Trillas

2011/14: Smart specialisation, regional growth and applications to EU cohesion policy

Philip McCann and Raquel Ortega-Argiles

2011/13: To assemble to resemble? A study of tax disparities among French municipalities

Marie-Laure Breuillé, Pascale Duran-Vigneron and Anne-Laure Samson

2011/12: The link between public support and private r&d effort: what is the optimal subsidy?

Néstor Duch-Brown, Jose Garcia-Quevedo and Daniel Montolio

2011/11: University patenting, licensing and technology transfer: how organizational context and available resources determine performance

Manuel Godinho and Rui Cartaxo

2011/10: Hell to touch the sky? Private tutoring and academic achievement in Korea

Álvaro Choi, Jorge Calero and Josep-Oriol Escardibul

2011/9: Corruption scandals, press reporting, and accountability. Evidence from Spanish mayors

Elena Costas-Pérez, Albert Solé-Ollé and Pilar Sorribas-Navarro

2011/8: Is there an election cycle in public employment? Separating time effects from election year effects

Matz Dahlberg and Eva Mörk

2011/7: Do universities affect firms’ location decisions? Evidence from Spain

Néstor Néstor Duch-Brown and Javier García-Estévez