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202010: Geography and Regional Economic Growth: The high cost of deviating from nature

Daniel Albalate, Germà Bel and Ferran A. Mazaira-Font

202009: The bivariate Sarmanov distribution for insurance claim frequencies and average severities

Raluca Vernic, Catalina Bolancé and Ramon Alemany

202008: The effect of health and economic costs on governments' policy responses to COVID-19 crisis, under incomplete information

Germà Bel, Óscar Gasulla and Ferran A. Mazaira-Font

202007: Retos para el análisis y la estimación de la distribución de probabilidad en Big-data

Catalina Bolancé

202006: Spectral analysis of business and consumer survey data

Oscar Claveria, Enric Monte and Salvador Torra

202005: Ensuring Stability, Accuracy and Meaningfulness in Synthetic Control Methods: The Regularized SHAP-Distance Method

Daniel Albalate, Germà Bel and Ferran A. Mazaira-Font

202004: Introducing and enhancing competition to improve solid waste management in Barcelona

Germà Bel and Marianna Sebo

202003: Risk reference charts for speeding based on telematics information

Montserrat Guillen, Ana M. Pérez-Marín and Manuela Alcañiz

202002: An analysis on the success of privately-led job search assistance programs against social exclusion

Daniel Albalate, Germà Bel and Lidia Farre

202001: Economic determinants of employment sentiment: A socio-demographic analysis for the euro area

Oscar Claveria, Ivana Lolić, Enric Monte and Petar Sorić

201920: Tax me, but don’t drown me in regulations: Understanding differences in corruption across the countries of Europe

Germà Bel

201919: Expected, Unexpected, Good and Bad Uncertainty

Helena Chuliá and Jorge Uribe

201918: Forecasting emerging market currencies: Are inflation expectations useful?

Alberto Fuertes and Simon Sosvilla-Rivero

201917: Easier said than done: Understanding the implementation of re-municipalization decisions and associated delays

Daniel Albalate, Germà Bel and Eoin Reeves

201916: Uncovering the time-varying relationship between commonality in liquidity and volatility

Helena Chuliá, Christoph Koser and Jorge Uribe

201915: The Political Economy of the Paris Agreement. Income Inequality and Climate Policy

Germà Bel and Jordi Teixido

201914: Increasing contingent guarantees: The asymmetrical effect on sovereign risk of different government interventions

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

201913: Do elderly people living in rural areas enjoy better mental well-being? Evidence from Catalonia, Spain

Manuela Alcañiz, Carme Riera-Prunera and Aïda Solé-Auró

201912: Distant or close cousins: Connectedness between cryptocurrencies and traditional currencies volatilities

Julián Andrada-Félix, Adrian Fernandez-Perez and Simon Sosvilla-Rivero

201911: Re-examining the debt-growth nexus: A grouped fixed-effect approach

Inmaculada Martínez-Zarzoso, Marta Gómez-Puig and Simon Sosvilla-Rivero

201910: On the modal shift from motorway to high-speed rail: evidence from Italy

Daniel Albalate and Mattia Borsati

201909: The impact of curbside parking regulations on car ownership

Daniel Albalate and Albert Gragera

201908: Does longevity impact the severity of traffic accidents? A comparative study of young-older and old-older drivers

Mercedes Ayuso, Rodrigo Sánchez-Reyes and Miguel Santolino

201907: Testing for private information using trade duration models with unobserved market heterogeneity: The case of Banco Popular

Jorge Pérez-Rodríguez, Emilio Gómez-Déniza and Simon Sosvilla-Rivero

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