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201906: Who pollutes more? Gender differences in consumptions patterns

Montserrat Guillén, Mònica Serrano and Francisca Toro

201905: The Institutional Adjustment Margin to Import Competition: Evidence from Italian Minimum Wages

Alessia Matano, Paolo Naticchioni and Francesco Vona

201904: Technological cooperation and R&D outsourcing at the firm level: The role of the regional context

Damián Tojeiro-Rivero and Rosina Moreno

201903: Green regions and local firms’ innovation

Lorena M. D’Agostino and Rosina Moreno

201902: English skills, labour market status and earnings of Turkish women

Antonio Di Paolo and Aysıt Tansel

201901: Has the ECB’s Monetary Policy Prompted Companies to Invest or Pay Dividends?

Lior Cohen, Marta Gómez-Puig and Simon Sosvilla-Rivero

201830: Trust in times of economic crisis in Spain: Paradoxes for social capital theory

Catalina Bolancé, Jordi Caïs and Diego Torrente

201829: Flexible maximum conditional likelihood estimation for single-index models to predict accident severity with telematics data

Catalina Bolancé, Ricarda Cao and Montserrat Guillen

201828: Major Reforms in Electricity Pricing: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment

Xavier Labandeira, Jose Labeaga and Jordi Teixido

201827: The Economic Cost of A Hurricane: A Case Study of Puerto Rico and Hurricane Georges 1998 Using Synthetic Control Method

Daniel Albalate and Gabriel Padró-Rosario

201826: Scaling Down Downside Risk with Inter-Quantile Semivariances

Jorge Uribe

201825: The benefits of PSM: an oasis or a mirage?

Sahar Awan, Germà Bel and Marc Esteve

201824: Is Private Production of Hospital Services Cheaper than Public Production? A Meta-Regression of Public vs Private Costs and Efficiency for Hospitals

Germà Bel and Marc Esteve

201823: When politics and lobbyism combine to promote white elephants by using PPPs

Daniel Albalate, Germà Bel and Albert Gragera

201822: The Impact of Immigration on Native Employment: Evidence from Italy

Stefano Fusaro and Enrique Lopez-Bazo

201821: A new metric of consensus for Likert scales

Oscar Claveria

201820: Linguistic skills and the intergenerational transmission of language

Ramon Caminal, Lorenzo Cappellari and Antonio Di Paolo

201819: Has the economic crisis worsened the work-related stress and mental health of temporary workers in Spain?

Xavier Bartoll, Joan Gil and Raul Ramos

201818: Time connectedness of fear

Julián Andrada-Félixa, Adrian Fernandez-Perez, Fernando Fernández-Rodríguez and Simon Sosvilla-Rivero

201817: Do government formation deadlocks damage economic growth? Evidence from history’s longest period of political deadlock

Daniel Albalate and Germà Bel

201816: Does inter-municipal cooperation really reduce delivery costs? An empirical evaluation of the role of scale economies, transaction costs, and governance arrangements

Germà Bel and Marianna Sebo

201815: Do public-private partnership enabling laws increase private investment in infrastructure?

Daniel Albalate, Germà Bel and R. Richard Geddes

201814: Urbanization in Ecuador: An overview using the FUA definition

Moisés Obaco and Juan Pablo Díaz-Sánchez

201813: What drives the spatial wage premium in formal and informal labour markets? The case of Ecuador

Alessia Matano, Moisés Obaco and Vicente Royuela

201812: Misinformation and Misperception in the market for parking

Daniel Albalate and Albert Gragera

201811: The transition towards semi-autonomous vehicle insurance: the contribution of usage-based data

Montserrat Guillen and Ana Pérez-Marín

201810: Exposure to risk increases the excess of zero accident claims frequency in automobile insurance

Montserrat Guillen, Ana Pérez-Marín, Mercedes Ayuso and Jens Perch Nielsen

201809: Together forever? Good and bad market volatility shocks and international consumption risk sharing: A tale of a sign

Helena Chuliá and Jorge Uribe

201808: What drives regional differences in BMI? Evidence from Spain

Antonio Di Paolo, Joan Gil and Athina Raftopoulou

201807: New Imported Inputs, Wages and Worker Mobility

Italo Colantone, Alessia Matano and Paolo Naticchioni

201806: A geometric approach to proxy economic uncertainty by a metric of disagreement among qualitative expectations

Oscar Claveria, Enric Monte and Salvador Torra

201805: A regional perspective on the accuracy of machine learning forecasts of tourism demand based on data characteristics

Oscar Claveria, Enric Monte and Salvador Torra

201804: The robustness of the sovereign-bank interconnection: Evidence from contingent claims analysis

Marta Gómez-Puig, Simon Sosvilla-Rivero and Manish Singh

201803: Incorporating creditors' seniority into contingent claim models:Application to peripheral euro area countries

Marta Gómez-Puig, Simon Sosvilla-Rivero and Manish Singh

201802: Ageing and health-related quality of life: evidence from Catalonia (Spain)

Manuela Alcañiz and Aïda Solé-Auró

201801: Tracking economic growth by evolving expectations via genetic programming: A two-step approach

Oscar Claveria, Enric Monte and Salvador Torra

201719: Unbiased estimation of autoregressive models for bounded stochastic processes

Josep Carrion-i-Silvestre, María Gadea and Antonio Montañés

201718: Multivariate count data generalized linear models: Three approaches based on the Sarmanov distribution

Catalina Bolancé and Raluca Vernic

201717: What drives migration moves across urban areas in Spain? Evidence from the Great Recession

Celia Melguizo and Vicente Royuela

201716: Analyzing Wage Differentials by Fields of Study: Evidence from Turkey

Antonio Di Paolo and Aysıt Tansel

201715: Public debt and economic growth: Further evidence euro area

Marta Gómez-Puig and Simon Sosvilla-Rivero

201714: Nonfinancial debt and economic growth in euro-area countries

Marta Gómez-Puig and Simon Sosvilla-Rivero

201713: “What really matters is the economic performance: Positioning tourist destinations by means of perceptual maps

Oscar Claveria

201712: Countercyclical Labor Productivity: The Spanish Anomaly

Borja Jalon, Simon Sosvilla-Rivero and José Herce

201711: Let the data do the talking: Empirical modelling of survey-based expectations by means of genetic programming

Oscar Claveria, Enric Monte and Salvador Torra

201710: Seeking price and macroeconomic stabilisation in the euro area: The role of house prices and stock prices

Imran Hussain Shah and Simon Sosvilla-Rivero

201709: Internet and enterprise productivity: evidence from Latin America

Juan Jung, Enrique Lopez-Bazo and Matteo Grazzi

201708: On the regional impact of broadband on productivity: the case of Brazil

Juan Jung and Enrique Lopez-Bazo

201707: Systemic banks, capital composition and CoCo bonds issuance: The effects on bank risk

Victor Echevarria-Icaza and Simon Sosvilla-Rivero

201706: Heterogeneity in the debt-growth nexus: Evidence from EMU countries

Marta Gómez-Puig and Simon Sosvilla-Rivero